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  "question": "Was today something invented?",
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  "verdict": "yes",
  "headline": "YES",
  "answer": "Yes — on Oct. 24, 1836, Alonzo D. Phillips patented the friction match in the US.",
  "details": [
    "Oct. 24, 1836: US patent 68, friction-match manufacture",
    "1876: Herman Belmer patented a stiffened corn popper",
    "1911: PET bottle inventor Nathaniel Wyeth born Oct. 24"
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      "title": "Wikipedia: October 24",
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      "title": "si.edu",
      "url": "https://torch.si.edu/2018/08/the-impulse-to-innovate-is-the-focus-of-an-inventive-new-display/#1"
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    {
      "title": "WIRED",
      "url": "https://www.wired.com/2012/10/oct-24-1911-birth-of-an-inventive-wyeth/#1"
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    {
      "title": "Patent Yogi",
      "url": "https://patentyogi.com/this-day-in-patent-history/this-day-in-patent-history-on-october-24-1836-alonzo-d-phillips-patented-a-friction-match/"
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  "generatedAt": "2026-10-24T05:18:50.826Z"
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