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Cooler Weather in Oklahoma City

Today's temps were exactly the same as last year. They were also cooler than "normal" highs/lows, which is 63/39 degrees. The hottest November 11 on record in Oklahoma City was November 11, 1911, when it was 83 degrees. The coldest today in OKC was in 1935 when it

The Twist Tie

Charles Burford invented the machine that puts twist ties on bread bags by adapting another machine his father invented that tied up hay bales. Burford was born in April 1932 in Lindsay, Oklahoma, and founded his company, Burford Corp, in Maysville, Oklahoma, where they still sell industrial machines that put