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22% of Every Mattress Sold in America Was Full of Water
In 1987, 22 percent of every mattress sold in the United States was a…
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One Loyalty Program Quietly Furnished a Generation’s Living Rooms
By 1964, the Sperry & Hutchinson Company was printing 32 million catalogs a year…
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One 39-Cent Bowl Built a $230 Million Business — Once It Stopped Selling in Stores
In 1946, Earl Tupper’s translucent plastic Wonder Bowl sold for 39 cents and got…
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This $1 Billion Basket Empire Vanished Almost Overnight
In 2000, a company that sold handmade maple wood baskets out of living rooms…
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This Design Movement Was Once Called ‘Ugly’ by Museums — Now It Sells for Six Figures
A bookcase that looks like it was assembled from leftover Lego and traffic cones…
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iPod Turns 25: The Product That Quietly Ended an Entire Industry
On October 23, 2001, Apple put a price tag of $399 on a white…
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High School Musical Turns 20: How a Disney Channel Movie Rewired Teen Pop Culture
On January 20, 2006, a made-for-TV movie about a basketball captain who wanted to…
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One TV Debate Made an Entire Danish Furniture Style Famous by Accident
Two rival candidates sat in the exact same piece of Danish furniture on September…
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One Movie Sold 25,000 Extra Cars in a Single Year — And the Star’s Own Copy Just Sold for $495,000
Pontiac gained 25,000 extra Trans Am sales in a single year because of one…
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One Toy Made $250 Million in a Single Year — 37 Years After It Launched
Thirty-seven years after it hit American toy shelves, a pocket-sized plastic puzzle pulled in…
