47 Things That Were Invented Because of People’s Stupidity

Tags on hair dryers that say “do not use while sleeping” – you’ve got to be kidding me! Were people really that absent-minded that they needed a reminder not to blow hot air on themselves while snoozing? I mean, talk about a Darwin Award waiting to happen! It’s hard to believe that our ancestors survived without these life-saving labels.

I can just picture our forefathers, huddled around a fire, saying, “Hey, let’s invent the machine to dry our hair while we sleep – genius!” Seriously, if you need a tag to tell you not to sleep with a hair dryer, maybe natural selection should be allowed to run its course…