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What item you use frequently would you be least surprised to learn is secretly bad for you? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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This is sort of a shower thought because this morning I was using some shaving cream and I thought, if it turns out in 5 years this was giving me cancer, I wouldn't be surprised.

Comes out a goo, ejected from a can with force, immediately becomes a foam?

Do you have anything you use that you think might be too good to be true?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Warfarin blood thinners.

Wouldn't be surprised if we find later that after decades of use that someone's body can gain resistance to it. I'd be fucked since I'm on the blood thinner train for life*.

*or until we can start printing human cells to recreate human parts