26 Hoo Boy Facts About Common Products

Sometimes it's best to leave the truth buried under an awesome logo and some fancy packaging. We asked our readers to strip away all that, and show us how some the most well-used products of all-time came to be in the first place.
26 Hoo Boy Facts About Common Products

Sometimes it's best to leave the truth buried under an awesome logo and some fancy packaging. We asked our readers to strip away all that, and show us how some the most well-used products of all-time came to be in the first place. The winner is below, but first the runners-up ...

Lysol WAS ORIGINALLY MARKETED AS A FEMININE HYGIENE PRODUCT GRACKEDCON
In 1982 Dr Lonnie Johnson was employed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a spacecraft systems engineer on the Galileo mission to Jupiter. At the tim
The orlglnal vacuum cleaner was SO large It woulD not fit inside, OO VACUUM CLEANER The BRITISH VACUUMCLEANERCILG 1 TLEPOIN WEN HEAD DEPOTA GREEN LANE
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26 Hoo Boy Facts About Common Products
CRACKED.OON Q-Tips were originally named Baby Gays.
CRAGKEDCON One of the first vibrators was a steam powered device called The Manipulator.
The first Nike shoes were made with a waffle iron. ORACKEDCO
Rogaine. Rogaine started as a medicine for high blood pressure. How it actually makes hair grow is still not fully known or understood. CRACKEDCOR
IN 1877. ZETH WHEELER RAN A SMALL BUSINESS THAT PRODUCED WRAPPING PAPER. WHEN HIS WRAPPING PAPER WOULDN'T SELL. HE DECIDED TO WIPE HIS ASS WITH IT. He
VELCRO Inspired by Nature After an Alpine hike. Swiss engineer Georges de Mestral examined the dry burrs from plants stuck to his woolen clothing and'
Heroin is one of the most addictive and dangerous drugs available. It was first created in 1874, and in FARBENEABRIKEN vorn 1898 it was being FRIEDR.B
Slinky was invented by a naval mechanical engineer. While developing springs that could support and stabilize sensitive instruments aboard ships in ro
American Express was founded as a Shipping com pany. I AMERICAN NEEHONO EXPRESS BORE 100 years be forte the first crednt card.
CRACKEDCON COM Tractor tycoon Ferruccio Lamborghini once complained about the inferior quality of his Ferrari sportscars. Ferrari responded by telling
Pumpernickel is a coar'se dark rye bread from Germany. Legend says it was named by a Napoleonic Hussar who claimed it was only fit to feed to his hors
CRACKED.COM The fortune cookie was either invented by a Chinese man named David Jung in 1918 in LA, or a Japanese man, Makoto Hagiwara, in 1914 San Fr
Andy Hildebrand. developed a signal processor to interpret seismic data in order to find crude oil. ANTARA This method was later reworked and introduc
During World War IL, the U.S. Government asked companies to develop a compound that could replace rubber, since rubber shortages were hurting war prod
KOTEX PADS WERE ORIGINALLY E USED TO TREAT WOUNDS IN WWI CRACKED Kotex. COM
26 Hoo Boy Facts About Common Products
Fanta invented was by the German wing of Coca Cola to get around American trade embargoes during World War II. BEAL FRUIT ... because the The name bos
Listerine used to be Suroical Antiseptic SCER1 3FLUID OUNCES- Bcc IISTERINE Floop: Cleaner: ERT WAMB PHARMACAL COMPANY TLOUIS. MOU.S.A Crtet INGREDIEN
26 Hoo Boy Facts About Common Products
Chainsaw The voas invented tor widen the pelivis during childbirth CRACKED COM

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