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Lasagna Toothpaste and Dangerously Useless Inventions

If you woke up this morning and reached for a tube of lasagna-flavored toothpaste, you’d likely question every life choice that led to that moment. Yet, the history of innovation is paved with exactly these kinds of "brilliant" ideas that were either bafflingly weird or spectacularly hazardous. Why did we ever think ventilated hats were the height of fashion, or that a "flying tank" was a practical solution for the battlefield?

In this episode, we venture into the eccentric archives of human ingenuity to uncover the zig-zagging path of progress. We’re exploring the Victorian gadgets that were…

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