Big History Quiz

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.

Here’s Jamin Warren on the game: “It’s created a kind of global arcade. Instead of a few kids looking over the shoulder of the hot-shot older brother or whatever, down at the mall, you have millions of people watching, and the person playing the game is a millionaire.”

Thirty percent of children under two have TV’s in their bedrooms and 59% of them watch at least two hours of it! TV doesn’t give young viewers many cognitive benefits, in fact, it is even said to impair crucial brain development because children are not interacting with people or developing important social skills.