“Sea-Monkeys is a brand name for brine shrimp. Harold von Braunhut invented the product in 1957. Initially called “Instant Life”, von Braunhut changed the name to “Sea-Monkeys” in 1962. Von Braunhut is quoted as stating: “I think I bought something like 3.2 million pages of comic book advertising a year. It worked beautifully.” The astronaut John Glenn took Sea-Monkeys into space on October 29, 1998 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.”
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Source: Sea Monkeys Rule!
