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How An 11-Year-Old Invented The Ice Block
Ever wonder why the ice blocks you make at home don’t taste quite as uniformly delicious as the ones in the supermarket? Well, you may have been perfecting your technique for years, but the ones in the supermarket have a 100 years of science and innovation behind them. It all started with one particularly brilliant…
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Reinventing The Ice Cube Tray
The next time you find yourself drinking something served on the rocks, take a moment to admire the cubes inside your glass. Long ago, ice used to be a novelty, shipped across the world in massive chunks carved from frozen lakes and rivers.
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How The Creator Of Wonder Woman Also Invented The Lie Detector
We learn to lie around the age of two or three. By the time we’re adults, we do it a lot — at least once a day, and perhaps more like 2.92 lies in 10 minutes, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology. It’s no wonder we’ve been…
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Ketchup Used To Be Made Of Fish: The Crazy History Of The World’s Greatest Condiment
Here’s something that might just blow your mind: ketchup — the national condiment of 1896, according to the New York Tribune — wasn’t always tomato based. In fact, if it had remained in its early form, we might be spreading fish paste on our burgers (gulp) instead of the tangy tomato-y goodness we presently rely…