15 Everyday Things With Weird Origins

In the early days of ATMs, banks thought the best way to get customers would use them was … advertising them with creepy anthropomorphized characters. Check out the details on that, plus another 14 stories, here:

Source: IBM

Source: 99.1 WFMK

Source: GoWorld Travel Magazine

Source: Irish Times

Source: TIME, History.com

Source: Smithsonian Magazine

Source: Business News Daily

Source: New Straits Times

Source: Washington Post

Source: CBC

Source: Mental Floss

Source: Google Books

Source: the Atlantic