Food
Where does Gummy bears come from?
Gummy bears were first made in Bonn in 1922 by the confectioner Hans Riegel, who shaped his fruit gums like the 'dancing bears' then seen at German fairs. They only caught on in the USA in the 1980s.
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Apple
📍 Tian Shan, Central Asia
The apple's wild ancestor, Malus sieversii, still grows in Central Asia's Tian Shan mountains, where apples were first domesticated before travelling along the Silk Road to Europe.
Food
Gumbo
📍 Southern Louisiana, USA
Gumbo is a melting pot in a bowl: a southern Louisiana stew mixing a French roux, the Choctaw thickener filé (ground sassafras leaves) and okra, whose African name, ngombo, gave the dish its own. It was first described in 1802.
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Peanut
📍 Southern Bolivia & NW Argentina
Peanuts were domesticated in South America, most likely in southern Bolivia or northwestern Argentina, where the most wild-like varieties still grow. The oldest known remains, about 7,600 years old, come from Peru.
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Game
Korfball
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Korfball was created in 1902 by Amsterdam teacher Nico Broekhuysen, who adapted ringboll, a Swedish game he'd seen in Nääs. Each team mixes four women and four men.
Invention
Kaleidoscope
📍 Edinburgh, Scotland
Scottish physicist David Brewster discovered the effect while experimenting with light around 1815 and patented the toy in 1817, naming it from Greek words for 'beautiful form' and 'to look'.
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Party balloon (the rubber balloon)
📍 London, England
The first rubber balloons were made in London in 1824 by the scientist Michael Faraday, who pressed two sheets of raw rubber together to hold hydrogen for his experiments. A year later Thomas Hancock was selling them as do-it-yourself toy kits.