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Originally Posted by Luffy
Right back at ya.
My trivia : The first practical contact lenses were made in 1888 by the German ophthalmologist Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick.
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Originally Posted by crich70
Modern contact lenses got their start in WWII when it was noticed that pilots who got shards of their planes windshield in their eyes (during dogfights) didn't develop infections as a result.
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Per Bob Newhart, Benjamin Franklin invented contact lenses when he got hit by lightning and his eyeglasses fused to his eyeballs.
Per Wikipedia, Peter And Gordon's first three hits in the U. S. (
A World Without Love,
Nobody I Know, and
I Don't Want To See You Again) were written by Paul McCartney and credited to "Lennon-McCartney."