Who Made It?

July 7th is ‘Chocolate Day’ so make sure you eat plenty of it this year! Chocolate was first officially brought to Europe on July 7th, 1550. However, some sources suggest it hit the continent’s shores as far back as 1504 thanks to a certain sweet-tooth by the name of Christopher Columbus.

Ketchup didn’t originally contain tomatoes but was rather a concoction made of fish or mushrooms. Once tomato ketchup was invented, a physician named John Cooke Bennet had the brilliant idea to press the sauce into pills and sell them as a cure for diarrhea, indigestion and rheumatism. The ketchup medicine craze didn’t last long.

There is a factory in Japan which can run unsupervised for 30 days at a time -- it's almost entirely manned by robots. In 2012, NYU-Poly constructed a robotic fish and placed it in a tank of golden shiners. The robot simulated the fishes' motions so well, it was eventually accepted and became their leader.