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19 Mind-Blowing Secrets About Products You Use All The Time

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All Froot Loops are the same flavor and taste the same?! Whaaaat?!

1. All Froot Loops are the same flavor and taste the same.

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WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE LIVE IN.

2. Mr. Clean Magic Erasers are just melamine sponges.

You can buy generic ones in bulk on Amazon for fairly cheap.

3. You only need ONE Alka-Seltzer tablet.

You only need ONE Alka-Seltzer tablet.

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That’s right: a “plop fizz” is just as effective as a “plop plop fizz fizz,” but of course, selling you two means more revenue for Alka-Seltzer. The antacid debuted in the 1930s in the form of a one-tablet dose, but a marketing executive decided to show two tablets plopping delightfully into water in a 1960s commercial, and the rest is history.

4. That wasabi you’re eating is almost definitely just horseradish and food coloring.

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Real wasabi is freakishly expensive, so outside of Japan, most “wasabi” consists of ground-up horseradish, mustard, and green dye.

5. Baby carrots are just regular carrots that are peeled down and cut into adorable nubbins.

 
 
 

6. Staplers have two settings: the normal one that binds your pages together and a second setting that loosely “pins” your pages.

Staplers have two settings: the normal one that binds your pages together and a second setting that loosely "pins" your pages.

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You can rotate the plate on your stapler’s base to switch settings. (Go here to to see how!)

7. Nutella and Ferrero Rocher are made by the same company.

 

Ohhhhhhh, that makes sense. However, “the crème filling of Rocher is chocolate and hazelnut but it is not actually Nutella,” the company tells BuzzFeed.

8. Lysol used to be marketed as a vaginal refresher.

19 Mind-Blowing Secrets About Products You Use All The Time

Lysol was marketed to women in the 1930s as a douche and a type of birth control. Ow.

9. Oreos copied Hydrox, not the other way around.

Oreos copied Hydrox, not the other way around.

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Hydrox was created in 1908, four years before Nabisco debuted the Oreo. Flummoxed by Nabisco’s larger marketing efforts, Kellogg’s, which had bought the cookie as part of Keebler, stopped making Hydrox cookies in the late 2000s.

10. One of Mountain Dew’s primary ingredients is orange juice concentrate.

One of Mountain Dew's primary ingredients is orange juice concentrate.

Finally, vindication for Taco Bell’s infamous Mountain Dew A.M. breakfast concoction.

11. If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, it’ll turn to metal.

The active ingredient in it is bismuth, which will turn into a metal oxide when it encounters fire. (It also turns your poop black, giving you the most metal poop of all the poops.)

12. Coconut water can be used as a replacement for blood plasma in medical emergencies.

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It’s been used to provide intravenous relief to dehydration patients.

13. In-N-Out items have different Bible verses hidden on the bottoms of their wrappers.

Soda cup: John 3:16
Milkshake cup: Proverbs 3:5
Burger wrappers: Revelation 3:20
“Double-Double” wrapper: Nahum 1:7
French fry holder: Proverbs 24:16

The verses reflect the Christian beliefs of the Snyder family, who founded the fast food chain.

14. You only need a pea-sized ball of toothpaste, not the large strip you see in toothpaste commercials.

19 Mind-Blowing Secrets About Products You Use All The Time

Toothpaste companies are — surprise! — trying to get you to use more product than you need, but dentists say you only need a pea-sized dab on there. Using too much toothpaste can even potentially cause damage to your teeth.

15. Pepsi usually wins the Pepsi challenge because it’s sweeter than Coke and people prefer the more sugary taste when taking a single sip.

19 Mind-Blowing Secrets About Products You Use All The Time

New Coke, a sweeter version of Coke, was Coke’s failed attempt to rival Pepsi’s sweet victory. Malcolm Gladwell argues in his book Blink that people prefer a less sweet beverage when they are drinking a whole can.

16. Unilever’s official position is that Q-tips are only supposed to clean your OUTER ears (not go inside your ear canal).

Unilever's official position is that Q-tips are only supposed to clean your OUTER ears (not go inside your ear canal).

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It might feel SO GOOD to clean out your earwax with one, but 1) earwax is important for your body’s immune system, and 2) Q-tips can make things worse by causing wax impaction and, even scarier, damage to your eardrum.

17. Ben and Jerry’s has chunks in it because co-founder Ben Cohen has no sense of smell and needed texture to get the full ice cream experience.

19 Mind-Blowing Secrets About Products You Use All The Time
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18. A “portobello mushroom” is just a mature cremini mushroom.

A "portobello mushroom" is just a mature cremini mushroom.

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The naming was developed in the health-crazed 1980s as a marketing scheme to sell more of the mature ‘shrooms.

19. Double Stuf Oreos, on average, only have 1.86 times the filling of a normal Oreo.

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