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And I thought marketing nonsense was more recent. However, Listerine told people after WWI that you would be a social outcast if you didn't use their product (source: book Only Yesterday) and Grape Nuts told parents/kids prior to WWI that kids needed to have more stamina in playground fights so they should eat Grape Nuts (source: book Dead Wake). This is why I tell people that regardless of what we read about history, it WILL repeat itself - human nature.

The Internet just has all sorts of historical good fun!