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23 Incredibly Disturbing Facts About Common Products

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Oil from a beaver’s asshole is used in a lot of foods, listed under “natural flavoring.” It’s called castoreum.

22.

Pepperoni comes from liquefied pig muscles. Before the pigs are slaughtered, most of them realize they are about to die, and their bodies release something that liquefies their muscles. After slaughtering the pig and collecting the liquid muscle, an enzyme is added to it to make the muscles solid again. And that’s where pepperoni comes from.

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The Kobold (Goblin in English), a vacuum-cleaner patented by the German Company Vorwerk in the 1930s and still being produced and sold to this day went through many redesigns an reiterations. Back in the 70s one of these iterations spawned the medical term “Morbus Kobold” or Goblin’s disease. To understand this disease you need to know that the Kobold design at the time had a rotating fan built close to the opening of the suction tube. At the same time there was a rise in unintended autoerotic mutilation of male genitalia. As it turns out most of the patients hospitalized for this reason used a Vorwerk Kobold and got a little too close to the fan blades spinning at high speed.

Written by Alex Cogen

Alex is a New Yorker currently living in Austin. She loves cats, grass, and latex but unfortunately is allergic to all 3. She makes mom and dad jokes more than she cares to admit (jk she'll admit it loud and proud). She isn't as funny as she thinks she is. She is the founder of thelazygurl.com.