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This Valentine’s week, Scott and Aaron spotlight a pair of fun inventions: the QWERTY keyboard and the square-bottomed paper bag. Also: North Carolinian Harriet Jacobs escapes from slavery, and a heroic woman shelters Anne Frank’s family from the Nazis.

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