[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

The Moebius strip was named after a German mathematician, August Ferdinand Moebius, who discovered it in 1858.

Another German, Johann Benedict Listing, separately discovered it in the same year.

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Seems a bit hard to believe that nobody twisted a piece of paper and glued the two pieces together until 1858.

[Starstruck]

Joseph Paper invented paper in 1857 so it only took a year.

[discostu]

They probably did, but there’s a difference between some guy gluing a piece of paper into a weird shape, saying “that’s cool” then throwing it away, and some science type doing it and writing a paper about it. In general stuff isn’t considered “discovered” until there’s published data about it.