So who actually invented Post-It notes?

Post-it note is a piece of stationery with a strip of weak adhesive on the back, designed to temporarily attach notes to documents and other surfaces. It is now available in a wide range of colours, shapes, and sizes but the most common type is square and canary yellow in colour.

The original inventor of the Post-It, Spencer Silver, was trying to make an extra strong adhesive but accidentally he created an extra weak one. Six years later, a colleague of Silver's, Arthur Fry, tried his weak adhesive to anchor his bookmark in his hymnbook. It worked great as it held well but pulled away easily, not damaging the pages of the hymnal. This first usage sparked the idea of the "Post-It" note. Fry believed so strongly in his invention that when engineers told him that a machine to manufacture the notes did not exist, he went home and built just such a machine in his basement. In 1980, the product debuted in US stores and it soon became one of the most widely circulated office products in the U.S.

Did you know…?

Post-it notes are used in many office pranks

The yellow colour was chosen by accident; a lab next-door to the Post-it team had scrap yellow paper, which the team initially used

A Post-it Note lasted through a flight from Las Vegas to Minneapolis on the nose of the plane (with the speeds of 500 mph and temperatures as low as -56 degree Fahrenheit).

It would take approximately 506,880,000 Post-it Notes to circle the world once.

To help celebrate the 20th anniversary of Post-it Notes, fashion designer Ilze Vitolina created an impressive line of an evening wear from Post-it Notes.

In 1989 during Hurricane Hugo a family left a Post-it Note on their front door and it was still there 3 days later.

Now Post-it Notes consist of over 4,000 products.

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