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Does Ivory Soap Float Because of a Manufacturing Error?
Written by:
Barbara Mikkelson
Nov 10, 2000
The origins and history of Ivory Soap.
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Cocktails Came Out of Prohibition?
Written by:
Brooke Binkowski
Apr 14, 2016
A long-running claim that cocktails were an entirely American invention appears to be something ...
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Play-Doh Origins
Written by:
Barbara Mikkelson
Jun 27, 2011
Play Doh started out as a wallpaper cleaner?
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The Origins of FedEx
Written by:
Barbara Mikkelson
May 27, 2009
Did the idea behind FedEx earn that company's founder a failing mark while he was a college student?
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Was the Stethoscope Invented to Preserve Modesty?
Written by:
Barbara Mikkelson
David Mikkelson
Mar 31, 2009
On one momentous day, French physician Rene Laennec rolled a sheaf of paper into a tube and plac ...
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Did Cocaine Users Cause McDonald's to Replace Their Coffee Spoons?
Written by:
Barbara Mikkelson
Aug 6, 2008
Businesses are not well served when their products are associated with illegal activities.
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Life Without Black People
Written by:
Barbara Mikkelson
Apr 6, 2005
List of technological innovations brought about by African-American inventors.
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The Origin of Graham Crackers
Written by:
Barbara Mikkelson
Aug 19, 2002
Were graham crackers named for a man who believed unhealthy diet led to sexual excess?
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Cabbage Patch Dolls
Written by:
Barbara Mikkelson
Jun 11, 2002
Were Cabbage Patch dolls designed to resemble what people will look like after a nuclear attack?
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Champagne Glass Origin
Written by:
Barbara Mikkelson
Mar 3, 2002
Were champagne glasses modeled on Marie Antoinette's breasts?
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Botts' Dots
Written by:
Barbara Mikkelson
Jun 20, 2001
How Botts' Dots, the rounded raised markers on California roads, came to be invented.
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The Strange History of the Shopping Cart
Written by:
Barbara Mikkelson
Nov 15, 2000
How the wheeled shopping cart came to be...and came to be used for so many purposes.
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Brassiere and Otto Titzling
Written by:
Barbara Mikkelson
Nov 15, 2000
Was the brassiere invented by Otto Titzling?
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Post-It Note Origin
Written by:
Barbara Mikkelson
Nov 10, 2000
How post-it notes came to be invented.
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Potato Chip Origin
Written by:
Barbara Mikkelson
Nov 10, 2000
Were potato chips invented thanks to a cook's momentary fit of pique?
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Monkee Mike Nesmith and Liquid Paper
Written by:
David Mikkelson
Feb 14, 2000
Did Monkee Mike Nesmith's mother invent Liquid Paper?
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Were Kotex Products First Manufactured as Bandages During WWI?
Written by:
Barbara Mikkelson
Dec 31, 1998
The company that designed a new and improved wartime essential was faced with a dilemma at the e ...
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