Product Origins

Post-It Note Origin How post-it notes came to be invented.
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Ivory Soap Origin How Ivory Soap came by its ability to float.
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coffee
Did Cocaine Users Cause McDonald’s to Replace Their Coffee Spoons?
  • 6 August 2008
Businesses are not well served when their products are associated with illegal activities.
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shopping cart history
The Strange History of the Shopping Cart
  • 16 November 2000
How the wheeled shopping cart came to be...and came to be used for so many...
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Were Kotex Products First Manufactured as Bandages During WWI?
  • 15 December 2020
The company that designed a new and improved wartime essential was faced with a dilemma...
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