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\"rubber-duckie\"When Rubber Duckies Started Making Bath Time Lots of Fun<\/a><\/p>\n

In 1970, everyone\u2019s favorite orange roommate sang a song to his bathtime buddy. \u201cOh, rubber duckie, you\u2019re the one. You make bathtime lots of fun,\u201d cooed Ernie to his squeaky yellow friend. While the rubber duckie had been around for at least a century prior to Ernie and his mellow melody, this Sesame Street tune shoved the bathtime toy into the popular culture lexicon where it has remained ever since. From a chew toy to a piece of art to Ernie\u2019s best friend (sorry, Bert), here\u2019s the story of how the world got into the bath with the rubber duckie.\u00a0In 1839, Charles Goodyear discovered vulcanized rubber. Legend has it that while in an argument with his lab partner, he angrily threw a piece of sulfur-covered rubber into a potbelly stove. The rubber charred and…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"bloody-mary\"Who Invented the Bloody Mary Drink and Who Is It Really Named After?<\/a><\/p>\n

For many, Sundays mean brunch and a delicious morning cocktail. Quite often, that early alcoholic beverage is the odd combination of tomato juice, celery, hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce (see: The Stomach Turning Thing Worcestershire Sauce is Made Of), vodka and other spices that\u2019s known as a \u201cBloody Mary.\u201d While admittedly it\u2019s pretty tasty, the recipe isn\u2019t exactly intuitively good. So, who and how was this smorgasbord of a beverage ever concocted? And was it actually named after a 16th century queen who had the habit of burning people at the stake?\u00a0As the fifth of six children of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon (and the only one to survive infancy), Mary Tudor was pre-ordained as royalty when she was born in 1515. But it wasn\u2019t easy for Mary, whose father had desperately wanted a son…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"flyingThat Time a Flying Pig Grounded Every Plane at London’s Heathrow Airport<\/a><\/p>\n

Imagine if you will that you\u2019re sitting in an airport waiting to go on vacation. Suddenly and without warning you hear a voice over the tannoy system informing you that every single plane scheduled that day had been grounded. As your mind begins to think of all the horrible things that could have caused the delay, you hear the voice again informing you that flights have been grounded not by a freak storm, crash or technical glitch, but by an escaped flying pig.\u00a0As unbelievable as it\u2019s going to sound, this is genuinely something that once happened in London in the 1970s thanks to the band Pink Floyd and their gigantic pig shaped balloon.\u00a0In 1976, Pink Floyd recorded an album called Animals which drew inspiration from the 1945 novel Animal Farm, a thinly veiled allegory of Soviet communism that prominently features pigs as characters.\u00a0After the album was recorded, the band met with a design team called Hipgnosis…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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