45 Common Household Items Hiding Shocking Secrets You Never Suspected
Engagement rings originated in Ancient Rome as a sign of ownership.
Diamonds are artificially inflated in value by DeBeers who have created a false value of diamonds. Do not support DeBeers in this effort. Avoid diamonds.
Listerine mouth wash was originally designed as a floor cleaner and surgical anti septic.
The paintball gun was designed for marking sheep.
Edit: yes they were also used to mark trees as well as livestock.
Not quite everyday, but Charcuterie boards were served at mass during the Spanish I*********n in order to out fake converts (Muslims and Jews don’t eat pork). Deliciously evil history!
BPA was originally used as a treatment for menopausal women. Later chemists found that it was also good as a plastic hardener. It is a hormone disruptor and why it was banned in baby bottles in the US, and pretty much in use at all in other countries. It’s still used in US to line metal food and soda cans and also in water bottles. Heat and acidic foods can cause the BPA to leach out of the plastic.
The Bonne maman jam family helped hide Jews from N*zis in the Second World War. I always happily buy their jam.
The microwave. Saw an episode of Tom Scott. It was used to defrost hamsters (or another small animal) in laboratories.
A lot of pharmaceuticals have roots in very unethical human testing. Also, n*zis pretty much invented m**h. In fact, n*zis broke a lot of ground in the medical field due to their complete lack of ethics in the name of a master race.
Bild Lilli which inspired Barbie was a doll based on a German cartoon and originally sold as a gift in adult stores. Eventually it was sold as a kids’ toy. The inventor of Barbie came across this doll and Barbie is a redesign of Lilli.
Not exactly sick/twisted, but tampons were originally developed as bandages for soldiers
Not an “everyday” item, but the Gatling Gun was invented by a doctor
Edit: I should have said “kotex and/or disposable pads”.
I looked thru the thread first but, there’s the one about superglue, it was invented to seal gaping wounds during vietnam.
IBM was responsible for calculating devices that would aid the N**i’s in the orderly cataloging and m****r of Jewish people. So, while the computer itself wasn’t a product of an IBM/N**i collaboration, the money earned before and during the Final Solution definitely went on to fund IBM’s foray into personal computing.
Coca cola used to contain c*****e which was used to treat common diseases in those days.
Not terribly sick, more “what in the name of OSHA violations is this?”
the slinky was invented because a guy working in a metal shop saw some spring-shaped metal scraps and said “ah yes, free toys for my kids, this is perfectly safe.”.
Bayer Aspirin
They were a part of the German chemical conglomerate known as IG Farben and we all know how Germany loves chemicals during the first two World Wars.
A**l gland secretions from a beaver are a source for “natural raspberry & strawberry flavors”
Shnapps in Sweden flavors its alcoholic beverages with “beaver-derived castoreum”.
Macaroni and cheese was developed by sl*ves.
Don’t know if this qualifies as an everyday item, but Japanese Genmaicha tea is said to have gotten it’s name from some poor servant who accidentally dropped rice in the emperors tea. The emperor supposedly k****d him in anger, then drank the tea and, liking the flavor, named it in Genmai’s honor.
Cornflakes were invented to stop people from j*rking off.
Ketchup was invented to cover the taste of rotting meat prior to refrigeration.
Glyphosate (Round Up) was initially patented as a commercial descaling agent for pipes and water heaters. We now spray it on our food and in our yards.
Nitrate fertiliser invented by Fritz Haber who was actually experimenting with various poison gases for the Germans to use in WWI. His wife was so horrified she k****d herself.
Tipping in restaurants.
Tipping came about because of all of the freed sl*ves working steward kinda jobs on the railroads and in restaurants, and they didn’t want to pay them. So, they made the workers rely on tips only.
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