A Frito-Lay executive is said tohave invented Doritosafter tasting toasted tortillas during a family vacation in Southern California in 1964. The first Doritos hit store shelves in 1966. The original version of the chips was plain, but the now-standard nacho cheese flavor was introduced in 1974...
No one knows exactly when the yo-yo was invented, but its first appearance in the U.S. was in 1927, when Pedro Flores, an immigrant from the Philippines, started carving and selling them. Yo-yos were a toy from his childhood. By 1929, he had two factories in Los Angeles and one in...
In the late 1500s, a large powerful gun was placed on top of the Signal Hill, in Newfoundland, to prevent attacks from the outside. Flags were also flown there to warn sailors of bad weather. It's fitting, then, the Italian Gulielmo Marconi should have chosen this site to receive the...
There was another one we made up to make cleaning up go faster. We had this Barbie car and the ‘it’ person would roll it at people and if it hit you in the ankles or feet then you became the ‘it’ person, all the while trying to tidy the place (usually after playing house, ...