Stupid little things that bug you

"Duck tape" is recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary as having been in use since 1899; "duct tape" (described as "perhaps an alteration of earlier duck tape") since 1965.
Damn that Wikipedia!
So there was a tape for sticking ducks to things or a tape made out of ducks in the 1890s..
 
I have 3 ducks, they keep escaping, does anyone know how I can keep them in the pen?

Just askin"
 
So there was a tape for sticking ducks to things or a tape made out of ducks in the 1890s..
Who knows mate? What happened in 1965 to make people start referring to it as duct tape? Did they run out of ducks or was there no longer a need to stick ducks together?
I might be overthinking this.
 

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