For those of you who don't know who this is, he was born Jacob Youphes in Riga, Latvia sometime in 1831.
He trained to be a tailor and in 1854 he emigrated to the USA, where he changed his name to Jacob Davis. While working one day a lady came into the shop he worked at and asked for a pair of hard wearing trousers that her husband, who was a woodcutter, could wear. So he set to work, cutting the toughest material he had and reinforcing it with rivets.
Yes, Gentle Reader, you guessed it.
A LATVIAN INVENTED JEANS!!!!
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