Well-Known Products With Weird, Unknown Histories

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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.