Animal Eyes

In its original form, the popular board game Scrabble was simply a bunch of tiles — there was no board in sight! It was also first called “Lexico,” but was later changed to the far more catchy name we now know.

In 1917, when xenophobia was a considerable problem in the United States, Komako Kimura marched down Fifth Avenue. Kimura was a Japanese suffragist and marched stalwartly for the right for women to vote. In Japan, her writing on women’s rights was frequently quashed and she was even banned from having meetings in public places.

Franklin Mars, the patriarch of the Mars company and the inventor of Snickers, named the candy bar after a beloved racehorse his family owned that had just passed away. What a sweet memory.