20 products you won't believe were created the same year

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• Mickey Mouse made his first appearance in 1928, the same year that sliced bread was invented.
• The internet and glue sticks were both invented in 1969.
• The Soviet Union's first satellite is the same age as bubble wrap.
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Some inventions are so ubiquitous that it can feel like they've been around forever. But many are more recent discoveries than you might think.

Here are 10 pairs of products that you didn't know were invented the same year.

Light switches and zippers were both invented in 1917.

William J. Newton and Morris Goldberg patented wall light switches in 1917.

Giden Sundback patented the "separable fastener" in 1917, as well. The name "zipper" was popularized by B.F. Goodrich Company in 1923.

Mickey Mouse made his first appearance in 1928, the same year sliced bread was invented.

"Steamboat Willie" made Mickey Mouse a star in 1928 when it premiered at the Colony Theatre in New York. The famous mouse was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at the Walt Disney Studios that year.

That same year, the first automatically sliced bread was created using a machine invented by Otto Rohwedder.

In 1938, soft serve ice cream and ballpoint pens made their debut.

According to Dairy Queen, soft serve ice cream was invented in 1938 by John Fremont McCullough and his son Alex, who opened the first Dairy Queen in 1940. (Carvel also claims to have invented soft serve.)

A journalist named László Bíró invented ballpoint pens with an ink flow modeled after printing presses in 1938.

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