15 Everyday Things With Weird Origins

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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:

The magnetic stripe on your credit card got its start thanks to ironing. 329 PETER 3. SOUTHWOOD A37308 8-85 8009 MasterCard In the '60s, the IBM engineer working on putting magnetic stripes on cards couldn't figure out how to do it, and when he told his wife about it (while

Source: IBM

We only have 30-second TV ads because Nixon banned cigarette ads. When TV cigarette ads were banned in 1970, TV execs needed to figure out a way to make up for the massive revenue loss - so they created 30-second ads, which were much less expensive than 60-second ones (which were

Source: CBC

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