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28 July 2011

What killer fact didn’t you know about matches?

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The first non-poisonous match wasn’t invented until 1910. Before that, a book of matches packed enough toxic white phosphorous to kill a person.

Read about more groundbreaking inventions that changed our world in the August 2011 issue of Popular Mechanics - on sale on 25 July.

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