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Who Invented the Slurpee? (2017x210)
Air date: Aug 29, 2017
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Born in 1915 and having grown up relatively poor, after WWII Knedlik used his pay from his time serving in the war to open a small ice cream shop. After rinsing and repeating with various business ventures (some successful, some not), by the late 1950s, he’d scraped enough money together to purchase a Dairy Queen franchise.
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Sources:
https://www.ksre.k-state.edu/news/stories/2017/03/ksprofile-Omar-Knedlik.html
http://www.kansas.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-story-of-kansas/article1090360.html
http://www.rd.com/culture/slurpee-7-eleven-facts/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/brain-freezing-science-slurpee-180959750/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_Queen
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/11/16/mf.cool.history.slurpee/index.html
http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?docid=03403524&SectionNum=1&IDKey=8F2DDF3BC8CD&HomeUrl=http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1%26Sect2=HITOFF%26p=1%26u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html%26r=1%26f=G%26l=50%26d=PALL%26S1=3403524.PN.%26OS=PN/3403524%26RS=PN/3403524
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slurpee
https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/19514841
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