How It’s Made: Artificial Christmas Trees, Cinnamon Rolls, Gingerbread

Every Christmas season, millions of American families set up an artificial tree — yet few people know its modern design actually comes from a… toilet brush. 🌲🎄🍪
In the late 1940s, engineers at the Addis Brush Company discovered that their brush-making machines could create bristles shaped like pine branches once tightened and dyed green. Today, factories still start with that same idea, but what happens next is far more surprising.