Wednesday Open Line


Does anyone know of some Easter Egg Hunts in the area?


For most of history, a good meal was followed by the drudgery of scrubbing the pans used to prepare it.  But something was invented this week in 1938 that changed all that — tetrafluoroethylene — far better known as Teflon.  Developed by Roy Plunkett of the DuPont Company, Teflon revolutionized cooking utensils.  By the time he died in the early 1990s, three-out-of-four of all cooking pans in the nation were coated with his invention.  Today, Teflon is also used in semiconductors, communications cables, and even in clothing.  The nation’s chemical industry generates more than $716 billion a year in sales and provides jobs for more than 800,000 workers.  You can find these and more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau, online at www.census.gov.  


Congrats to mudball on the $20 Gift Certificate for our April 1st Celebration!


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