Hello all, Brian here, and once I’m again using my vast knowledge of the universe to improve your lives. Today, i’m answering one of the BIG questions. The sort of questions that keep people awake at night. Who invented the ring-binder?
Well, we have to go back to the days of pre-history when plague, famine and foreigners were the scourge of the land, and battles between neighbouring countries were an everyday occurence. It was like the Vietnam war but without the choppers. Then one day a lady with a lamp, Florence Nightingale, happened upon the cause of all the conflicts. The European countries lacked convenient file storage. Whole continents were in turmoil over misfiled accounts and everyone wanted paying. Calmly Florence decided to give over her life to finding a solution. After six years of late nights (thankfully she had her lamp), poor health and many failed attempts she at last invented the ring-binder we know and love. Almost instantaneously countries adopted her filing system, and with invoices being paid on time there ceased to be a need for war. At a stroke Flo had invented world peace… That was until someone realised the need to invent the hole punch.

So there you go, another Did You Know This fact complete. I’m rushing off now as i’m giving Loyd Grossman a lift to the vets. Thanks, Prof Brian Cox.

(Above) Stationery heroine Florence Nightingale waiting at the Doctors
(Pictured without her lamp)