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The Burpee is named for a physiologist named Royal Huddleston Burpee. For his Ph.D. thesis at Columbia University in 1940, he invented the exercise as a way to assess the fitness of non-active adults.
A: The Frisbee was invented in 1957 by a Californian UFO enthusiast named Walter Frederick. But he didnât call it a Frisbee. The Wham-O company bought his idea for a toy saucer, and later named it after a popular pie restaurant in Bridgeport, Connecticut. William Frisbieâs pies were very popular with kids who liked to throw the tins around after they ate the pie! Hence, the Frisbee!