Everything you know is a lie.
Toilet paper rolls were invented to sell Scott's brand paper.
Packaged toilet paper wasn't introduced in American until 1857, which consisted of pre-moistened sheets with aloe in a Kleenex-style box. Toilet paper on a roll as we know it today was introduced in 1890 by Clarence and E Irvin Scott, whose company Scott's is still one of the leading TP brands worldwide.
Father's Day was invented as a way to sell menswear during the depression.
While Mother's Day began organically as a way to honor children whose mothers died in the war, the inception of Father's Day in the 1930s was not simply a response to Mother's Day. The greeting card industry and the New York Associated Men's Wear Retailers, whose profits were down during the depression, used Father's Day as a promotional tool to sell cards and ties.
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The layout of your grocery store is designed to make you buy more.
Everything about a grocery store's layout is designed to make it seem like you're spontaneously buying something that wasn't on your list. To get to the milk and bread at the back of the store, you have to pass through many other aisles of goodies. Even demonstrations and sampling carts aren't really intended to make you buy the product you taste; they're designed to slow you down and make you see all the products that are around you as you wait for your bite.
Campbell's invented green bean casserole.
This Thanksgiving tradition didn't start in some grandmother's recipe book. It started in the marketing department of the Campbell Soup Company in 1995 when they wanted to create a recipe that would improve lagging sales of their Cream of Mushroom soup.
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