213: Unexpected Origin of Roller Skates

Brain Junk

May 31 2022 | 00:10:37

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The first roller skates were patented by John Joseph Merlin in 1760. He showed off his new fangled wheeled shoes with an epic entrance to a party that ended not quite how he thought it would.

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