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There are many things in this world that seem simple but are actually insanely complex and took humanity thousands of years to figure out. Take, for example, the screw. Even though people have been using threaded machines to do work since the ancient Greeks, what we think of as the screw only came into existence in the last couple hundred years. But once it did, it changed everything.

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
1:42 - History of the Screw
3:04 - Ancient Construction
5:42 - Standardizing Screws
9:54 - Other Examples
13:46 - Sponsor - Ground News