Since to day is National Science Day, I decided that I would share the history of the lollipop, which isn't really science, but it's close enough, so here goes.
There is speculation that lollipops were first invented sometime near the civil war, though some people believe that the lollipop was invented before that, in the early 1800's. George Smith is supposedly the first person to invent the modern style lollipop in 1908, and trademarked the name in 1931. He had the idea of putting candy on a stick to "make it easier to eat", and named it after a popular racing horse named Lolly Pop, although some people think derived from the term lolly (tongue) and pop (lick). It initially referred to soft, not hard candy.
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