America, the land of contrasts
December 7, 2007
I am all sore this morning from the gym last night. On the plus side, I've finally worked off the "American pounds" I added when I moved here. Now for the Australian ones...
American innovations
1859 - Nathan Ames from Massachusetts patents the first escalator, now the US has more than 30 000 escalators and 90 billion riders each year.
1983 - Lanny Potts from Oklahoma invents the StairMaster5000, so people can drive to the gym and work off the calories they gained from riding on escalators for the previous 124 years.
1957 - Richard Marshall from Illinois discovers the chemical reaction to produce high fructose corn syrup, the average American now consumed 28.4 kg (63 pounds) of high fructose corn syrup every year.
1997 - Karen Miller-Kovach from New York invents the Weight-Watchers formula to allow Americans to count the extra pounds they have put on from 40 years of eating high fructose corn syrup.
American innovations
1859 - Nathan Ames from Massachusetts patents the first escalator, now the US has more than 30 000 escalators and 90 billion riders each year.
1983 - Lanny Potts from Oklahoma invents the StairMaster5000, so people can drive to the gym and work off the calories they gained from riding on escalators for the previous 124 years.
1957 - Richard Marshall from Illinois discovers the chemical reaction to produce high fructose corn syrup, the average American now consumed 28.4 kg (63 pounds) of high fructose corn syrup every year.
1997 - Karen Miller-Kovach from New York invents the Weight-Watchers formula to allow Americans to count the extra pounds they have put on from 40 years of eating high fructose corn syrup.
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