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What was ketchup originally made from? Ketchup was originally made out of fish. If you asked for ketchup thousands of years ago in Asia, you might have been handed something that looks more like today’s soy sauce. Texts as old as 300 BCE show that southern Chinese cooks were mixing together salty, fermented pastes made from fish entrails, meat byproducts, and soybeans. These easily shipped and stored concoctions — known in different dialects as “ge-thcup,” “koe-cheup,” “kêtsiap,” or “kicap” — were shared along Southeast Asian trade routes. By the early 18th century, they had become popular with British traders. Yet the recipe was tricky to recreate back in England because the country lacked soybeans. Instead, countless ketchup varieties were made by boiling down other ingredients, sometimes including anchovies or oysters, or marinating them in large quantities of salt. (Jane Austen was said to be partial to mushroom ketchup.) One crop that the English avoided in their ketchup experiments was tomatoes, which for centuries were thought to be poisonous. Across the Atlantic, Philadelphia scientist James Mease created the first tomato-based ketchup recipe in 1812. More than half a century later, Henry J. Heinz founded his food company in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania. The first commercial tomato ketchups — including Heinz’s 1876 product — relied on chemicals to preserve their freshness and color, including formalin and coal tar. But around 1904, chief Heinz food scientist G.F. Mason devised an all-natural blend that included tomatoes, distilled vinegar, brown sugar, salt, and spices. With the signature formula now established, the brand was able to meet the growing U.S. demand for hot dogs, French fries, and hamburgers. There’s a museum in Wisconsin entirely devoted to mustard. At this Midwestern attraction, the showpiece is the Great Wall of Mustard, an assortment of more than 5,600 bottles and jars. Exhibits on the wall have been sourced from every U.S. state as well as 70 countries. The museum’s founder and curator is Barry Levenson, who began collecting mustard in 1986. The following year, while working for the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Levenson successfully argued a case before the U.S. Supreme Court — with a jar of hotel mustard in his pocket. In the early ’90s, he left law to open the original iteration of his museum, which is now in Middleton. Tickets to the National Mustard Museum are always free and include entry to the Mustardpiece Theatre.

The world’s largest waterfall is underwater. When we think of the world’s mightiest waterfalls, we normally picture them cascading majestically over cliffs to a turbulent plunge pool far below. But the world’s largest waterfall is actually located in the ocean. Known as the Denmark Strait cataract, it flows beneath the Denmark Strait, which separates Iceland and Greenland. At the bottom of that strait, a series of cataracts — beginning some 2,000 feet beneath the surface — plunge to a depth of 10,000 feet, a drop of nearly 2 miles. This underwater waterfall exists due to density differences between the two water masses on either side of the Denmark Strait. When the southward-flowing cold water from the Nordic Seas meets the warmer water from the Irminger Sea, the cold, dense water quickly sinks below the warmer, less dense water, and plunges over a huge drop in the ocean floor. The resulting downward flow is estimated to well exceed 123 million cubic feet per second. By comparison, the discharge of the Amazon River into the Atlantic Ocean is just 7.74 million cubic feet per second.

In 2009 a 26-year-old man named John Edward Jones visited the Nutty Putty cave in Utah. He intended to climb through a narrow passage known as the “birth canal” but instead went down a random passage and ultimately ended up trapped upside down and thoroughly stuck. Multiple rescuers tried in vain to save Jones. They simply couldn’t reach him to pull him out, and efforts to use ropes and pulleys to do so were without success. One such effort actually caused him to become even more entrenched in the hole. If you look at the position of his body, if only he could have turned around so his feet were 180 degrees around, perhaps they could have pulled him out as his knees would naturally bend, but in this case, you’d break both his legs trying this. This was compounded by the fact the 10″ x 18″ tunnel was so narrow that every breath wedged Jones further in. being upside down too long - 24 hours or so - is fatal. Your circulation and organs fail. Poor Jones succumbed to his fate and passed away. Worse, the tunnel was sealed off as they couldn’t recover his body. He’s still in there. RIP Jones and all condolences to his loved ones.

Not long ago, my sister-in-law fell victim to a social media scam. The scammer had cleverly impersonated her online and messaged her friends, relatives, and colleagues, even addressing them by their nicknames. This fraudster claimed he was short on cash to buy a few more tiles—a request that seemed plausible since my brother and his wife were indeed renovating their house at that time. That small, accurate detail made the story even more believable. And before anyone caught on, several people had already sent money, genuinely thinking they were helping out. This experience was a harsh reminder of how social media, while wonderful for keeping us connected, can also serve as a goldmine for scammers. Have you ever been in a similar situation or wondered how scammers can know so much about someone? The uncomfortable truth is, you may have handed the scammers the information they need in a silver platter. Here are the most common social media mistakes that could make you an easy target. You Participate in Viral Trends and Quizzes Have you ever tried using AI-powered apps to transform your photos? People are uploading high-quality selfies for AI to turn them into digital artwork, improved versions of themselves, or even mythological creatures—because who doesn’t want to know what they’d look like if they were ancient Greek goddesses? This trend seems fun and harmless until you realize you’ve handed over your face to a faceless tech company. According to cybersecurity expert Andrew Couts, a senior editor for security at Wired who covers privacy policies, national security, and surveillance, it’s almost impossible to know what happens to your photos once they’ve been uploaded. Couts emphasized that without a full audit of the company’s back-end systems, there’s simply no way to tell how safe (or unsafe) your photos really are. Some companies claim to delete your face data within 24 hours and boast about their top-notch privacy and security practices—but let’s be honest, most people couldn’t care less about digging into which companies are actually playing by the rules.