What do you get when you put a bunch of rubber ducks in a box?

A box of quackers!

That's right.

We're quacking jokes for National Rubber Duck Day.

I'm Bethany Van Delft.

It's Thursday, January 13th, and this is the 10 News.

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Why do we celebrate Rubber Ducky Day today, of all days?

Well, according to a 1973 Sesame Street calendar, Ernie's Rubber Ducky was born on January 13th.

Oh, happy birthday, little ducky. So when you're celebrating in the bathtub today with your own Rubber Ducky, why not sing along to Ernie's hit song, Rubber Ducky.

Here to tell us more about this quackerific day is Ten News correspondent Ryan Ners.

Aside from soap and shampoo, there's an item that has nothing to do with cleaning, and yet it could be found in the bathtubs of millions of kids for many decades now.

Can't figure it out? It sounds a bit like, oh my, excuse me. I mean, it sounds a bit like,

that's right, I'm talking about the rubber ducky, and I'm talking about it because it's her big day today.

So, hey, happy rubby ducker day.

Wait, what I mean to say is, happy rubber ducky day.

Now, to properly celebrate this day, which full disclosure doubles as my birthday, I'm going to give

you a quick and quacky history of the rubber ducky, which is, quite frankly, way more interesting

than it has any right to be. Okay, let's start at the beginning. As for ducks, well,

they've been around for about 25 million years. And as for

rubber, well, indigenous South American tribes have been making that for several thousand years.

But our magic moment began in the mid-1800s, when Charles Goodyear, he of Goodyear tires

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