Mr. Potatohead Day
Mr. Potatohead was the brainchild of George Lerner II. Lerner was an inventor and designer during World War II. During those tight times, he developed a series of push-pin toys that could be used to accessorize vegetables such as potatoes and carrots, creating an inexpensive toy for children. In 1950 Lerner sold the rights to [...]
National Hairball Awareness Day
A hairball is a type of bezoar, or a mass found in the gastrointestinal system. Hairballs are generally found in the stomach. Most common in cats, any living creature can have a bezoar. It was once thought that a bezoar could stop any type poison from taking hold in a person’s system. Some studies have [...]
Marconi Day
Marconi Day commemorates the birth of wireless pioneer Guiglielmo Marconi on this day in 1874. Marconi was born in Bologna, Italy. Marconi showed an interest in physics at a young age, and upon leaving school in 1895 he created a wireless telegraph that transmitted a signal 1.5 miles. The next year, Marconi took his invention [...]
An Opus for Opus
Today we celebrate the penguin, from the Little Blue Penguin (16 inches tall) to the mighty Emperor Penguin which is nearly 4 feet tall and weighs in at more than 75 lbs. Without human intervention, the penguins are all found below the equator, but not all are limited to Antarctica. Several species thrive on the [...]
Pig in a Blanket Day
Pigs in a Blanket date back to the 1880s in Boston. The original pig in a blanket was oysters, seasoned with salt and pepper, wrapped in bacon, secured with a toothpick and grilled or fried. The interesting thing about this is that the pig in this case was the blanket, instead of being in one. [...]
National Zucchini Bread Day
Today is National Zucchini Bread Day. The zucchini vegetable is low in calories (approximately 15 food calories per 100 g fresh zucchini) and contains useful amounts of folate , potassium, vitamin A, and manganese. Some people believe that the zucchini is native to the Americas, like the more traditional summer squash, but its origins are [...]
Jelly Bean
The exact origins of the jelly bean are unknown. The modern day jelly bean seems to be a combination of two different confections that were combined in this country to become the jelly bean. Each year, over 16 billion pounds of jelly beans are produced for Easter alone.
Not a baby anymore
Friedrich Fröbel opened the first kindergarten on 28 June 1840 to mark the four hundredth anniversary of Gutenberg’s invention of movable type. Fröbel created the name and the term Kindergarten for the Play and Activity Institute, which he had founded in 1837. The first kindergarten in the United States was founded in Watertown, Wisconsin by [...]
Part of Sky Awareness Week
Sky Awareness Week encourages people across the nation and around the world to look up! The sky is at its most dramatic in the late spring, it is a great time to observe what is above us. These subtle changes, often tied to weather systems and atmospheric pollutants, change the color of the sky.
Raise a stink
Garlic has been regarded as a force for both good and evil. A Christian myth considers that after Satan left the Garden of Eden, garlic arose in his left footprint and onion in the right. In Europe, many cultures have used garlic for protection or white magic, perhaps owing to its reputation as a potent [...]
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