Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things
Feb. 2013 · Harper Collins
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Astonishing stories behind 500 everyday items, expressions, and customs—from Kleenex to steak sauce, Barbie Dolls to honeymoons.
For lovers of facts, students of popular culture, history buffs, and science enthusiasts, the foremost specialist on everything tells us how and why hundreds of the everyday items, expressions, and customs we take for granted came into existence. Learn the fascinating discovery stories behind over 500 phenomena, including:
And many, many more in this carefully organized, delicious compendium of little-known facts—guaranteed to amaze, absorb, amuse, and delight.
For lovers of facts, students of popular culture, history buffs, and science enthusiasts, the foremost specialist on everything tells us how and why hundreds of the everyday items, expressions, and customs we take for granted came into existence. Learn the fascinating discovery stories behind over 500 phenomena, including:
- How chewing gum and Silly Putty began as substitutes for rubber
- How the potato chip emerged from an act of pique on the part of a Native American named Crum
- Why April Fool’s Day started out as New Year’s Eve, a joke in itself
- How the song “Happy Birthday to You” began as a kindergarten jingle titled “Good Morning to All”
- How the zipper was one man’s attempt to make obsolete not buttons . . . but shoelaces
- How the newlywed husband came to the aid of his accident-prone bride with the invention of the Band-Aid
- How the hotdog began as an outlawed Roman sausage and received its name at a New York baseball game
- How Drs. Fallopius and Condom made strides in inventing and popularizing a male means of birth control
- How the original Goldilocks was a disgruntled, gray-haired crone, tortured by the three bears
- How Ketchup came from the Romans, Tabasco sauce from an exiled New Orleans banker, Mayonnaise from a French duke, and A.1. Steak Sauce from a royal chef named Brand
And many, many more in this carefully organized, delicious compendium of little-known facts—guaranteed to amaze, absorb, amuse, and delight.
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