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Daily Trivia

What does 'S.O.S.' stand for?

on Sep 11, 2026

As World War I raged through Europe in 1917, Ed Cox of San Francisco invented a pre-soaped pad with which to clean pots. His wife named it S.O.S., which, as the story goes, stood for "Save Our Saucepans."

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