The newcomer to the candy aisle in 1932 was the 3 Musketeers Bar. The original candy contained three distinct nougat flavors—strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla—in one package. High vanilla and strawberry costs during WWII caused Mars to alter the bar to contain only one musketeer: chocolate. ...
When Ayds diet candy was trademarked in 1946, hope for dieters came in three flavors: chocolate, butterscotch, and caramel—plus a big dose of phenylpropanolamine. Not until the 1970s and 1980s did Ayd’s became top-selling diet food. The diet pills were outlawed in Canada and fell out...
Long before it gained popularity as the star ingredient in absinthe, wormwood was used medicinally. The first recorded use of wormwood in medicinedatesbackto 1552 B.C., and absinthe itself was initially used to treat illness — but its potential didn’t go unnoticed for long. Here’s a time...
Editor’s note: This post was originally published in January 2016. It has been updated and republished in 2024. Article Summary What if there was something you could do right now to cut your cancer risk in half? Several of the most common (and aggressive) cancers have to do with your ...
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When the factory was bombed and completely destroyed in 2012 in the Syrian Civil War, the family left Syria and became refugees in Lebanon. The son, Tareq Hadhad, gets admitted to Canada. Hoping to land in Toronto, he instead ends up in the town of Antigonish, Nova Scotia. His father ...
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In the candy world for the 1928 holiday season, everyone wanted Dubble Bubble. Thegum was created accidentallyby Walter Diemer at Fleer Chewing Gum Company and was stretchier, less sticky, and more prone to bubbles than regular chewing gum at the time. The first five-pound batch available sol...
There was initially some speculation behind the Lexus name, claiming that it stood for “Luxury Exports to the US”, but the truth is that Lexus is derived from the name Alexis, the name Toyota originally planned on using. That eventually morphed into “A Lexus” and then just plain “...
Amy Jo Johnson was a defining hero of the '90s, but she apparently wasn't initially aware of her lasting legacy. “I didn’t really realize how popular my character was until maybe six years ago,” she told IndieWire in 2020. She's seeing things more clearly now, though, and it looks...