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TIL that Stuart Anders, the inventor of the slap bracelet, donated 200 of his original bracelets called the "Slap Wrap" to Florida elementary school students after they were given a Chinese knockoff brand which had inappropriate pictures printed on the metal beneath the bracelets' cloth wrapping.

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