The History Of Margarine Hasn’t Always Been Smooth

from Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson · host Brady Carlson

Today in 1869, inventor Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès received the French patent for margarine. The butter substitute is used around the world today, though for a while it was banned in parts of the US. Plus: an explorer accidentally drops his GoPro off the side of a cruise ship and ends up with a kind of candid camera for sea life. This week in science history: Margarine inventor’s fame spreads (Cosmos via Archive.org) The Butter Wars: When Margarine Was Pink (National Geographic) Man Drops GoPro Overboard on Cruise Ship, Captures Incredible Undersea Footage (My Modern Met) Our backers on Patreon are smooth

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