Lysol was sold to women as birth control. 🧴

Kleenex was never meant for your nose. 🤧

Early plastic billiard balls sounded like gunfire. 🎱

A poisoned family pushed Einstein to redesign the refrigerator. 🧊

Coca-Cola was invented because Atlanta banned booze. 🍷

The man installing his security system found his body. 🎸

Saved From the Chair

Ben Underwood, a boy from Elk Grove, California who was diagnosed with retinal cancer at age two and had both eyes removed at age three, taught himself to navigate the world by human echolocation — clicking his tongue and interpreting the returning sound — and could ride a bicycle, skateboard, shoot baskets, and identify parked cars by clicking, until his death from the same cancer on January 19, 2009 at age 16.

A hydrogen bomb fell on Albuquerque and nobody remembers. 💥

Earth turned solid rock into something like plastic. 🕳️

Lightning struck Roy Sullivan seven separate times. ⚡

Astronauts use a 25-mile eye in the desert to check their bearings. 👁️

A bear, a lion, and a tiger lived together for 15 years 🦁🐯🐻