Biro

Are there any English words of Hungarian origin? You may well ask yourself on a frosty winter’s evening. I know I did. The answer to your question would be: not many, not many at all.

(Paprika, Goulash, and Sabre are the highlights, and none of them have very good stories).

But – get this – the inventor of the ball point pen was a Hungarian named László József Bíró. He first demonstrated his ballpoint pen in 1931, then moved to Argentina where he started marketting them as Biro Pens of Argentina.

Awesome Hungarian fact.

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