Christmas Trees Born from Toilet Brushes

Your Christmas tree started as a toilet brush. In the 1930s, the Addis Brush

Company had leftover animal hair bristles and green dye from making bathroom scrubbers.

Instead of wasting materials, they fed them through the same toilet brush machines,

twisted them into cone shapes, and marketed them as Silver Pine trees. That vintage artificial

tree in your living room? It's literally made using toilet cleaning technology.

The company successfully rebranded bathroom supplies into festive decorations, and nobody questioned

it. Now millions of families unknowingly put their presents under what's technically

a giant bathroom appliance every December.