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26 Wild Facts About Common Products

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It's easy to take the products we use every day for granted, and assume that they're inherently uninteresting. The thing is, that awesome logo and some fancy packaging might be hiding a startlingly interesting product.

So here are some dizzyingly unexpected facts about merchandise you never spend time thinking about.

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26 Wild Facts About Common Products

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Entry by Sksmith

TOILET PAPER Fig:i. ROLLS WERE ORIGINALLY WRAPPING PAPER ROLLS. Seth Wheeler patented rolls of perforated wrapping paper in 1883. When that wouldn't s

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Entry by Vegemighty

CRACKEDOON THE FIRST NIKE SHOES WERE MADE WITH A WAFFLE IRON. Bill Bowerman noticed over breakfast that a waffle pattern was just right to make light

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Entry by MelJel

MYSTERY FLAVOR DUM DUMS EXIST TO AVOID CLEANING THE MACHINES. When a flavor is running out, they just plop the next one on top and a batch MYSTERA of

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Entry by beefybooyawn

FORTUNE COOKIES WERE INVENTED IN CALIFORNIA. it's not clear if they were created by a Chinese immigrant in Los Angeles or a Japanese immigrant in San

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Entry by xooll

THESE AREN'T BIZARRE SEX TOYS. Stop trying to imagine how they're used. These are aluminum molds that are dipped in liquid latex to make balloons.

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Entry by danduplant

CRACKEDCON YOU HAVE UNZIPPED A YKK LATELY. YKK If you're wearing anything with a zipper right now, it's very likely the letters YKK are stamped on it.

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Entry by chicagonative

Operating Booths Pents ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE OSBORNE BRITISH VACUUM CLE NO Iinus THE FIRST VACUUM CLEANER WAS HUGE. The humongous thing was parked outsi

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Entry by Gisele

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Entry by kuan

THE PLATES USED TO PRINT MONEY ARE HAND-MADE. The dots and lines you see on your money are engraved by hand using very small tools. An engraver can ta

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Entry by brandonalsip

YOU'RE BARELY TASTING ANY ORANGES IN YOUR ORANGE JUICE. Juice is often sterilized for long- term storage, which removes all the orange-y tastiness fro

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Entry by DoctorNemesis

FANTA WAS THROWN TOGETHER BECAUSE OF 100% NATURAL FLAVORS HITLER. CAFFEINE FREE The German branch of Fant Coca-Cola created the fruity beverage to get

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Entry by Jordan Rudow

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Entry by bizmarky

GRAHAM CRACKERS WERE INTENTIONALLY CREATED TO GIVE YOU NO JOY. Reverend Sylvester Graham preached a life of temperance with no physical pleasure, eith

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Entry by bazooka

VELCRO WAS INSPIRED BY SEEDS. Swiss engineer George de Mestral created Velcro by replicating the microscopic hooks of the seeds that got stuck to his

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CRACKEDCO AMERICAN EXPRESS ITHE CARD) IS MUCH NEWER THAN AMERICAN EXPRESS ITHE COMPANY). American Express was founded as a shipping business in 1850,

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Entry by AgentCoop

CRACKEDCON PEZ IS It takes about 3,000 MADE pounds of pressure to compress the UNDER sugary goodness A LOT OF that makes up a PEZ candy into the PRESS

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Entry by John E.

CUSTOM WIGS HAVE EACH HAIR ATTACHED BY HAND. Hairs are inserted and knotted into the foundation a few at a time, sometimes individually. Repeat 40,000

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Entry by UNIQUELEADS

YOUR HOODIE MAY HAVE BEEN A BOTTLE ONCE. Plastic bottles are often recycled into polyester yarn, which is then used to make polar fleece clothing. CRA

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Entry by Stonicus

NOBODY KNOWS HOW ROGAINE RE WORKS. BEST USE - TWICE DAILY The drug minoxidil was oeo initially approved by the FDA to treat high blood Rogair MEN'S pr

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Entry by Anyone

A NASA ENGINEER INVENTED THE SUPER SOAKER IN HIS BATHROOM. Uper NERF Daker Lonnie Johnson was testing an idea for a water-based refrigeration system.

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Entry by Anyone

Q-TIPS WERE ORIGINALLY JUST FOR BABIES. Leo Gerstenzang's invention was sold at first as Baby Gays. The name was eventually changed to Q-tips (the

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Entry by tmsteele2000

THE WORLD'S MOST HIPSTER COFFEE IS POOPED OUT BY AN ANIMAL. The Asian palm civet likes to eat coffee berries. The beans are recovered undigested from

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Entry by Chris Rio

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PUMPKIN SPICE IS SEASONAL ONLY BECAUSE OF MARKETING. The spice is unrelated to the pumpkin harvest, as it isn't made with pumpkins. There's no reason

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