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Is there anyone left who doesn't know The Story of Art Fry?

Documented: 3M "Post-It" notes were invented & marketed as an unofficial project.

Once upon a time, Post-it notes were a relative novelty, and the obscene mountains of money they have made for 3M made the trivia about them good currency of the ULish sort.

But Art Fry, the inventor of Post-It notes, a creation born of his personal idiosyncratic needs to keep his notes in place in his hymnal, is now very famous, and his tale a much-taught business school success story. You can find it anywhere. Like here.

References:

• Urbanlegends.com's 1993 citation, now somewhat quaint