On May 3, 1973, The New York Times reported that the mother featured on the box of Ivory Snow detergent was, in fact, Marilyn Chambers, the star of the recently released pornographic film Behind the Green Door. The advertising industry was scandalized and
Hanson Gregory claimed to have invented the ring-shaped doughnut in 1847 aboard a lime-trading ship when he was 16 years old. He claimed to have punched a hole in the center of dough with the ship's tin pepper box. [Wikipedia]
