Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for May 20, 2024
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May 20, 2024: 151 years ago, on May 20, 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a patent for work pants that included metal rivets. Davis was a customer of Staruss’s and wrote to him about a method of adding metal rivets to make work pants stronger. Davis did not have the money for all the required patent paperwork, so the two men applied together. Their creation would become what we know today as blue jeans.[1]
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- May 17, 2024-70 years ago, school segregation was ruled unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education
- May 16, 2024-82% of voters say that employers should be allowed to require background checks
- May 15, 2024-138 executive orders have been issued by President Biden so far in his presidency
- May 14, 2024-30% of those whose homes have increased in value say the economy is getting better
- May 13, 2024-48% of voters favor requiring non-essential businesses to close on Sundays
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