Q-tips never told us to stick the swabs in our ear canal to clear out earwax. Yet, somehow, we use it for the very thing it specifically warns us not to do: Putting it inside our ears.
The humble Q-tip was so perfectly designed for the purpose of cleaning our ears, that it turned into a generic word for a product.
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