Sinister Origins of Everyday Items

Your morning cereal was born from a war against pleasure. John Harvey Kellogg invented cornflakes

in 1894 to suppress sexual desire. He believed bland food would cure what he called dangerous

urges. Patients at his sanitarium were fed tasteless grains while enduring bizarre

treatments. The crispy flakes in your bowl were designed as edible restraints for the

human spirit. Every breakfast, you're eating the remnants of Victorian obsession with control.

What other everyday items hide sinister origins?