Why did the eraser get promoted?
It was great at cleaning up other people's mistakes.
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Did You Know?
The joke works because "cleaning up mistakes" means both literally erasing errors AND fixing problems at work! The modern rubber eraser was invented by accident in 1770 when English engineer Edward Nairne grabbed a piece of rubber instead of bread (which people used to erase pencil marks back then). Before rubber erasers, people actually used crustless bread to remove pencil marks from paper!