💡 Trivia The word aquarium once referred to a watering place for cattle

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Of course, today’s aquariums aren’t for cows. The first public aquarium, called the Fish House, opened in 1853 at the London Zoo, which led to a Victorian craze to have one at home. According to Guinness World Records, the term aquarium was coined in 1854 by English naturalist Philip Henry Gosse with the publication of his book The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea. But some didn’t initially like the term, as it had been used to mean “a watering place for cattle.”

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