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Super soakers on the perfect bite of your favorite sugary snack.

These are just a few things that made being a kid awesome On Here are the untold stories behind why and how they came to Be Oh yeah, mm milk good old fashioned milk in your cereal in your coffee in your glass calcium but the best use for milk dunking cookies.

E mean who doesn't love a cookie dipped in milk.

But why?

Turns out, it's because science says so.

But before we get into it, let's take a quick look back in time.

It's 10,000 BC theatric Cultural Revolution occurs.

Animals are domesticated and animals are milked great.

Ah, lot of time goes by.

Hey, guess what?

It's 18 62.

Louis Pasteur modernizes milk safety.

The term pasteurized is born.

Get it?

Maybe you know Who cares?

Moving on its 18 84 milk is bottled up.

The milkman became a thing yada, yada yada.

1990 for got milk.

Ad swept the nation.

Everyone's got a milk mustache.

Great.

Now that's over.

Why the H E double hockey sticks?

Do we dunk our cookies into milk when you dip cookies into milk.

You change a number of things about those cookies that completely alters your eating experience.

By alters Matt means away.

Let me introduce you to Matt.

Hi.

My name is Matt Hartings, and I'm a professor of chemistry, and I teach a class on cooking chemistry here at American University.

But back to it, by alters Matt means when you dip cookies into milk, not only does the texture and flavor change, but the chemical composition does is well, which is what makes scientists go wild.

Chemists are fascinated in how taste works and how all of the molecules that you're experiencing when you're eating food, how they all work together and lead toe one thought in your brain.

But how?

There are specific ways to measure food chemistry, things like an M s knows that tries to break down food aromas into their individual parts.

The M s nose is a tool that helps scientists understand how complex molecules come together to make flavor.

Eso What does all this fancy technology tell us when you dunk that cookie, you add a creaminess to your cookie and that makes your cookie taste completely different.

You will dampen some of the flavors that air naturally sharpen a chocolate chip cookie.

It will soak up liquids E so we can universally agreed.

Dunking chocolate chip cookies into milk is the best thing ever speaking to my own experience.

I am not a big dipper.

Wait, What?

I take a bite of my cookie and then have a drink of milk.

You just had to be different, didn't you?

Still sounds delicious too.

May Oh, yeah.

I've been making this strength sounds so attractive and desirable for all these years.

Do you recognize me?

I'm the Kool Aid man.

Oh, yeah.

So I've had several people say it's hard to picture that that voice is actually coming from you.

The human beings.

Oh, yeah, they like the voice because they don't know who I am.

When I first auditioned, I think they wanted to get the flavor of the Kool Aid man that was already on the air when I came in instead of making it o E 00 oh, So he's gonna have a big, deep voice.

So I just start like this guy wants to be a Oh, yeah, cool.

And I tried to make their voice uh, you know, just kind of roll around utterly in my throat.

Oh, yeah.

I remember those sessions after three hours of them.

Just saying, OK, do it again.

Do it again.

Do it again.

Try it again.

How about lower?

More energy?

More this more Very white.

Bigger.

Bigger.

Bigger.

Louder.

Louder.

I'd be saying, Like what?

What am I not doing?

That you're not getting what you're telling me to use a lot of high energy like David Lee Roth?

I said the two don't mix.

David lead Ross going?

Oh, yeah.

Doesn't mix with Barry White going.

Oh, yeah.

So what?

You have to find a happy balance.

Yeah.

Bottoms up.

Mm.

Mhm.

There's this amazing picture of my coworker.

It's him reading a Ninja Turtles book lying next to a Super Soaker.

When the Super Soaker came out, it was a game changer.

The slogan Wetter is better was essentially a mantra for kids during summer break.

So when I went to Atlanta to interview the guy responsible for all that, I had to show him the photo.

That's funny.

Lonnie Johnson invented the Super Soaker back in 1982 but that is not his only invention.

Well, I have over 100 patents, everything from the Nerf gun to a thermo electric energy converter.

He also worked on NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter and alongside the U.

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Military for the first Super Soaker.

Actually, I made in my shop in my basement in the evenings when I would come home from work, and at the time I was actually working on the Stealth bomber program back when it was highly classified and I actually couldn't even tell my wife.

But I was working on during the daytime.

It was that top Secret Theory journal name for the Super Soaker was the drench er.

We ran into a challenge regarding the name because another on going to claim that.

So we changed the name the Super Soaker, just to avoid having toe deal with that Super Soaker is definitely a way better name.

When he started, Lonnie wasn't trying to create a toy for kids.

I was working on a new type of heat pump that would use water as a working fluid instead of free on, and I was experimenting with some nozzles that I machine and I tried to stream of water across the bathroom, and I thought she's maybe I should put this hard side stuff aside and work on something fun, like a water gun.

It still works, and this brings me back to a previous point.

Monty Johnson is a super genius scientist.

This'll is his lab, and this is what he's working on now.

Right now, I'm working on advanced battery technology.

My goal is to develop a battery that will store about three times the energy of a lithium ion battery.

In comparison, the Super Soaker might not seem as hard science, but it was still a really, really important invention.

It's plastic, it's most likely beige, and it sounds like this.

Chances are if you grew up in the United States, you've played a recorder.

It was a non negotiable part of your elementary school education.

And for that you can thank this guy.

Carl Orff.

Ah, passionate German composer.

Originally, the recorder was handcrafted, wooden and made for the highest of society.

Even Vivaldi and Bach wrote pieces for the recorder.

It doesn't rely on a read or strings, just breath.

It's in the flute family.

In the 19 sixties, the recorder started being produced out of plastic cheap plastic.

So how did it become the clumsy, awkward sound we all used to play?

Yeah, that's where ORF comes in.

He saw the recorder as an easy way to get kids to start playing music.

The logic was simple.

The recorder relies on rhythm rather than memorization.

If you can sing, you most likely can play it or, if had the best of intentions to inspire the next generation of musicians.

And even though they can sometimes be annoying, our hats are off to you, sir, for changing the course of music education for generations to come.

E Hello, Normally, when you think of words, they fit into a language.

But there's a relatively new class of words that don't quite follow the rules, and it's called WASI a Go.

John Kelly is a language writer.

I spend a lot of my time writing about word origins.

He's a linguistics expert, and he knows just about everything about the phenomenon called Wa Sago.

Once a ego literally means Japan made English.

It is a language process that takes foreign words, usually English words and trans Ma Griff eyes them into something wholly new and novel for Japanese purposes.

We see this with a word like karaoke.

Everybody knows, and everybody loves karaoke.

But it joins the Japanese kata, which means empty and okay, which is a Japanese rendering of orchestra.

So a karaoke is an empty orchestra.

The most popular example is the word Pokemon.

The creator of Pokemon took two English words Pocket and monster.

He smashed them together and got Pokemon.

Or take cosplay, a word that describes people dressing up as fictional characters.

Cosplay joins costume in play, and there's anima.

Anima is a fairly straightforward rendering of the English animation.

Bossy you go is important because language is always changing in reinventing itself.

What new words will pop up in the future on Lee, Time will tell.