Storyteller, Quizzer, Marcom Pro.
Storyteller, Quizzer, Marcom Pro.
Did you know the word vaccine traces its roots to the Latin vaccinus, meaning “of or from cows.” Ever wondered why? This connection goes back to the late 18th century, when English doctor Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids who caught…
Jigarthanda is a chilled milk‑based beverage that originated in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. The name comes from the Urdu/Persian word “jigar,” which literally means “liver” but is poetically and popularly used to mean “heart,” and “thanda” meaning cold, together suggesting “cool heart.”…
Rava Idli, a popular item in Karnataka cuisine, was born out of hardship and inventive spirit during World War II. In the early 1940s, the war triggered a major rice shortage across South India. Japan’s invasion of Burma, then the…
In the late 1800s, cities like London and New York faced a growing problem: horse manure. With tens of thousands of horses used for transport, each producing roughly 15 to 35 pounds of waste daily, the streets were overwhelmed. The…
A story often shared in customer service and engineering circles tells of a man who wrote to Pontiac to report a strange problem: his new car wouldn’t start, but only on nights when he bought vanilla ice cream from his…
In 1957, Swiss inventor Marc Chavannes and American engineer Alfred Fielding tried to revolutionize interior décor with a new kind of textured plastic wallpaper. They used a heat-sealing technique to trap air between two plastic shower curtains, producing sheets of…
One Sunday in 1974, Art Fry, a 3M engineer and choir singer, grew frustrated when the bookmarks kept falling out of his hymn book. That minor inconvenience sparked a major innovation. Fry recalled a low-tack adhesive developed by his colleague,…
The iconic yellow smiley face was created in 1963 by American graphic artist Harvey Ross Ball. Hired by the State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts, Ball was asked to design an image to boost employee morale after a…