How Things Started
An in depth look at how everyday things got their start.

Archive for July, 2008

Morning Breath

July 24, 2008

A plague to humans everywhere, waking up with breath that smells like poop is quite common. While multiple cures have been suggested through the years- stop drinking so much that you puke or don’t eat Taco Bell at 2 in the morning- nothing seems to work.
The explanation for this phenomenon is simple: the tooth fairy is pissed. [...]

The Telephone

July 9, 2008

Everybody knows that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. What isn’t known is that Alex did it to help out his boy Paul Revere.
As is now commonly known, Paul Revere invented the Booty Call (see April 9’s post for clarification). However, Revere soon got tired of going over to his ho’s house to place the [...]