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5 Things (We Think) You Don’t Know About... Video Calls

Why was the world’s first “Picturephone” a commercial flop? And who was the “viral victor” of 2020? Read on for all this, plus several tips on how to go from sinner to winner in video calls.

5 Things (We Think) You Don’t Know About... Sticky Notes

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Post-its, stickies, yellow notes, sticky notes,... No matter what you call them, you probably go through several of these colored bits of paper a day for use as quick notes, messages, or bookmarks. But what do you really know about them?

5 Things (We Think) You Don’t Know About Staplers

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You might even find this tiny office helper completely boring and ordinary. But that’s a mistake! Staplers hold a rightful place on the red carpet, in the Guinness World Records, and even in Japanese.

5 Things (We Think) You Don’t Know About Copiers

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These homely devices—which can copy up to 150 pages per minute today—have been part of the office world for over 60 years. What illness was behind their beginnings? And how do fire extinguishers relate to it all?

What Would You Salvage If Your Office Were On Fire?

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M&Ms, mobile phone, glasses and also a lathe machine or a 1-meter plant. The employees of different firms would save all this (besides their life, of course) if their office were on fire. Here are nine answers in the poll from #MORETHANOFFICE.

5 Things That (We Think) You Don’t Know About Elevators

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Without elevators, the world would really need a lift. For example, John McClane from Die Hard would have had a harder time taking down terrorists. But above all—without elevators, it doesn’t seem like there would be any high rises, and without those, there’d be a lot fewer of us all. So what’s the past of these traveling cabins? What does their future look like? And where can elevators move you faster than the local speed limit?