Once upon a time, shopping for school supplies meant buying notebooks, pencils and rulers. Then, as school budgets got tighter, we got used to picking up paper towels and baby wipes for the classroom.

If you’ve been rolling your eyes at people who say “duck tape” adhesive, prepare some apologies. The durable cloth-backed tape first appeared during World War II, when Johnson & Johnson developed an ...

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