BoyWithUke
Inspired to learn it after she commented on how cool his performance was, BoyWithUke practiced this instrument everyday for 1,355 days to impress a girl in his senior year of high school.
What is the Ukelele?
Having no off-switch for the dolls chewing mechanism, this Mattel toy was withdrawn from the market in 1997 due to a safety hazard where their motorized mouths would get stuck on children's fingers or hair.
What are Cabbage Patch Kids?
This dish made from two tortillas filled with cheese, meats, spices, and/or other fillings, directly translates to "little cheesy thing," and originated from Colonial Mexico.
What is a Quesadilla?
Known as "man's best friend," these animals have unique nose prints, sweat through their paws, and can smell diseases like cancer, but can also learn over 100 words, have a sense of time, and are as smart as a two-year-old child.
What is a Dog?
While working on magnetron tubes for radar technology, Percy Spencer noticed a candy bar had melted in his pocket, and after further testing, realized this now common appliance could be used to heat food.
What is the Microwave?
Banned for approximately 14 hours in the U.S. in January of this year, this platform is where BoyWithUke first gained his popularity.
What is TikTok?
Having a major recall of one million models back in 2007, this Hasbro kids baking toy led to multiple lawsuits, with multiple instances of children getting their hands or fingers caught in the oven's opening, leading to injuries, and in one case, a partial finger amputation.
What is the Easy-Bake Oven?
This classic McDonalds patented hamburger features a 100% beef patty, and is seasoned with salt and pepper, topped with cheese, pickles, and onions, and served on a sesame seed bun.
What is a Quarter Pounder?
Perhaps the most famous "disgusting bug," these insects known for rolling feces into balls, which they eat or use to lay eggs, are also incredibly strong, capable of pulling over 1,000 times their body weight.
What is a Dung Beetle?
Contrary to popular belief, Ruth Graves Wakefield intentionally created this delectable treat while trying to invent something different for her guests at the Toll House Inn, deliberately adding chopped chocolate to her recipe, knowing it wouldn't melt.
What is the Chocolate Chip Cookie?
Streamed nearly half a billion times and topping the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart in the first year after its release, this BoyWithUke song was his first to go viral in 2021.
What is Toxic?
Recalled and effectively banned due to injuries caused by the hard plastic dolls flying at high speeds, leading to eye injuries, broken teeth, and even a broken rib, the manufacturer, Galoob Toys, was also fined for failing to report the defects and injuries to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) (who received reports of over 150 injuries by 2000) in a timely manner.
What are Sky Dancers?
This small, orange-like citrus fruit with a sweet rind and tart flesh can be eaten raw or used in preserves, jams, marmalades, or cooked in various savory dishes. It's also fun to say!
What is a Kumquat?
These little (often pink) salamanders native to Mexico, known for their remarkable ability to regenerate limbs and organs, are also neotenic, meaning they keep their juvenile, aquatic features like external gills throughout their lives.
What is an Axolotl?
Attempting to create a super-strong adhesive, Spencer Silver accidentally invented this common office supply used to temporarily attach written memos to documents and other surfaces.
What is the Sticky/Post-it Note
Initially born in Daegu, South Korea, BoyWithUke moved to this U.S. state when he was a child, attending local schools and experiencing many of the challenges of moving to a new country, like feeling like he didn't belong, prompting the beginning of his musical career.
What is Massachusetts? (specifically Shrewsbury)
These large, inflatable, saucer-shaped watercrafts designed to be pulled behind a boat, causing the rider to become airborne, were recalled in 2006 after numerous injuries and deaths including fractured vertebrae and internal bleeding.
What are Wego Kite Tubes?
A traditional Italian pasta of the pastina (tiny pasta) variety, made from leftover dough and shaped into small squares, often cooked in broth.
What is Quadretti or Quadrettini?
Life is tough being the world's largest rodents, but being native to South America, these highly social, semi-aquatic, extremely calm tempered herbivores are excellent swimmers with webbed feet and eyes, ears, and noses on top of their heads for staying submerged.
What is a Capybara?
Swiss engineer George de Mestral accidentally invented these versatile fastening devices after observing how burdock burrs stuck to his clothes and dog's fur, replicating the designing using microscopic hooks on a strip of fabric that attach to tiny loops on another that allow two surfaces to be repeatedly attached and detached with ease.
What is Velcro?
His first being Serotonin Dreams, released on the 22nd of January, 2021, and his most recent being BoyWithUke: B Sides on the 5th of September, 2025, BoyWithUke has released this many albums during his career (not including EP's, re-releases, or singles).
What is 7? (Serotonin Dreams, Melatonin Dreams, Fever Dreams, Serotonin Dreams, Lucid Dreams, Burnout, BoyWithUke: B Sides)
Strangely enough, this popular 1950s science kit was not taken off shelves due to exposing to children to actual uranium-bearing ores, but was instead discontinued because of low sales, seemingly from educated parents fearful of its dangerous radioactive contents and the associated risks.
What is the Gilbert (U-238) Atomic Energy Lab?
A type of hard-shell clam, this popular New England and Mid-Atlantic seafood item is consumed in various dishes, from being eaten raw on the half shell to being used in clam chowder, with its actual name coming from a Native American word and also being the official shellfish of Rhode Island.
What is a Quahog?
Being the world's only scaly mammals, covered in keratin scales for defense, which they use by rolling into a tight ball, these nocturnal, solitary animals, sometimes referred to as scaly anteaters, are insectivores that eat millions of ants and termites each year using their long, sticky tongues.
What is a Pangolin?
James Wright, an engineer at General Electric, accidentally invented this classic toy while attempting to create a synthetic rubber substitute during World War II.
What is Silly Putty?