Sooper Delishus.

-On August 18, 1992, a promotion at the newly opened Mall of America in Bloomington, MN sparked chaos as a banner that was supposed to read “Free Slush Puppy for every MOA customer” instead read “Free Puppy for every MOA customer.” Parents and children swarmed the food court for hours, waiting for — and eventually […]

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-On July 1, 1891, New York state passed the Youth Labor Act, a significant victory for the child labor movement. The law was considered a benchmark of the time, setting strict standards:
“Child laborers shall not work more than 85 hours in a given week, and no more than 19 hours in a given day. […]

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-On June 22, 1936, British astronomer Melvin Tinsdale stunned his Oxford colleagues by announcing that he had discovered a new planet. Located between Uranus and Neptune, the planet was to be called Demeter, after the Greek goddess of fertility.* Tinsdale had already mailed a paper for submission to The Astronomical Journal when it was determined […]

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-On May 11, 2004, city officials in Pittsfield, MA announced the discovery of a document that was believed to be the earliest written reference to baseball in North America. The document, a set of bylaws from 1791, raised quite a stir because it made specific reference to “baseball” by name, decades before the game was […]

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-On April 14, 1931, AT&T’s Bell Laboratories was granted a patent on toes. Specifically, the document issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office covered “dual- or tri-phalanged digits, deployed on a foot or other pedal appendage, for the purpose of balance, locomotion and/or strength.” What AT&T intended to do with the patent was never […]

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-On March 17, 1813, Colonel Thaddeus McKitrick mounted the War of 1812’s famed St. Patrick’s Day defense of Sacket’s Harbor. The harbor, north of Syracuse, was vital for supplying American troops in the Northeast. Alerted to British forces advancing from Canada, McKitrick dug in to meet the charge. His defenses were tactically […]

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-On February 19, 1891, the Other Treaty of Ghent was signed, ending the bitter war between Seychelles and the Faroe Islands. The war, which raged for nearly a decade, had been sparked when the Seychellois* regent boasted in the Times of London, “We are the finest nation of tiny islands anywhere on this Earth,” […]

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-On January 22, 1980, Houston Rockets star Moses Malone began his controversial “cashews and root beer” diet. It lasted 6 days, ending when teammates found him shivering on the locker room floor. “They want my feet,” said a delirious Malone, before clutching Rick Barry’s equipment bag and passing out.
-On January 24, 1946, at […]

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