1. Play-Doh was originally designed to remove soot from wallpaper. The only reason it became a toy was because vinyl wallpaper became a thing, making his product obsolete. The creator needed to save the company and accidentally found that kids loved the stuff. After making it safe to play with, it was then marketed for kids.
2. When smoking went out of fashion and was demonized by anti-smoking adds, Disney had a major issue on their hands in the fact that there was never a photo of Walt Disney without a cigarette in his fingers (he was a heavy smoker), so they resolved it by airbrushing all the cigarettes out of every picture of Walt Disney so the question arose of why was Walt pointing with two fingers and they disguised it as “Walt would point with two fingers because it…