Here’s a fun fact, write this down. Did you know the inventor of the modern ballpoint pen we use every day was a Hungarian Jew named László Bíró? In the 1930s, he noticed that newspaper ink dried faster than fountain pen ink, which often smeared and leaked. So he designed a pen with a tiny rolling ball that distributed quick-drying ink evenly. He patented it in 1938 but sold the rights for little money and had to flee Europe during WWII because of rising antisemitism. Bíró settled in Argentina and by 1945 Marcel Bich bought the rights and turned it into the Bic pen. Today, in many countries, the ballpoint pen is still called a “biro” in his honor.
