Good News in History, November 23

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124 years ago today, the Black inventor John Lee Love was granted a U.S. patent for the portable pencil sharpener, a design that is still in use today. Called the “Love Sharpener”, it improved upon the standard pencil sharpener which was bulky because required a crank. Love, who lived in Fall River, Massachusetts, realized that […]

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