Going Bananas
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Whether their origins are accidental or by design, there are some very curious items on our tour today.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to AirNmenky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm |
| 0:08.7 | and Mild. |
| 0:13.0 | Our world is full of the unexplainable. |
| 0:16.3 | And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, |
| 0:22.2 | just waiting for us to explore. |
| 0:25.4 | Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's. |
| 0:31.0 | We tend not to think about the objects we encounter each day and where they came from. |
| 0:41.4 | We've always used short plastic sticks with nylon bristles to brush our teeth or washed |
| 0:46.4 | our hands in porcelain basins or enjoyed our morning cup of coffee in a ceramic mug. |
| 0:52.1 | But who were the first people to brush their teeth that way or wash their hands in a sink |
| 0:56.8 | or use a mug to hold hot beverages? |
| 0:59.3 | For the most part, we don't think about those things because we don't really care as |
| 1:03.5 | long as they work the way they're supposed to. |
| 1:06.1 | But one man cared and he let everyone know it. |
| 1:09.7 | Henry was upset. |
| 1:11.3 | On December 28th of 1917, he penned an article in the New York Evening Mail about an anniversary |
| 1:17.2 | that seemed to have slipped by without any attention paid. |
| 1:20.6 | There was no fanfare or fireworks, not even a short write-up in the local papers. |
| 1:25.5 | What had everyone forgotten? |
| 1:27.4 | The Bath Tub |
| 1:29.5 | December 20th of that year marked the 75th anniversary of the Bath Tubs introduction |
| 1:34.0 | to the United States. |
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