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Ball jars are made by Newell Brands. Ball makes spaceships now instead
Wow! I just looked at their wikipedia page, and that's really fascinating! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_Corporation?oldformat=true
Sadly, they don't do space anymore: https://www.baesystems.com/en/article/bae-systems-completes-acquisition-of-ball--aerospace
actually, i knew that too but admitting it would have ruined my fun fact...