George de Mestral, a Swiss engineer, was out hunting in the Jura mountains in the 1940s and he wondered why cockle-burs were sticking to his trousers and his dogs fur. He became curious and took one home to look at under a microscope. He discovered that the cockle-burs had tiny hooks that grabbed hold of the loops in the fabric of his trousers.
He had a light bulb moment and Velcro was the invention that followed. Velcro is taken for granted these days and is used in clothing, bags, tents, travel cots, and the list goes on. All because a man was curious. He could have been angry or frustrated or just found it funny and left it there. When we have a curious mind we make connections, we make inventions and we change the world.
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