While we tend to associate the ’50s with sock hops, Elvis, and The Golden Age of Television, it also happened to be a decade that greatly improved our lives.
Credit cards (1950)
Diner's Club introduced the first credit card in 1950.
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Diet Soda (1952)
The first diet soda, No-Cal, was introduced by the Kirsch Bottling in 1952. It's inventors Hyman and Morris Kirsch created the sugar-free soda for hospitalized diabetic patients at the Jewish Sanitarium for Chronic Disease (now known as Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center).
In 1958, Royal Crown Cola introduced the second sugar-free soda, Diet Rite.
Roll-on deodorant (1952)
Prior to the invention of Ban Roll-On, the most common deodorant was Everdry, a aluminum chloride solution that was applied with cotton swabs. Besides being messy and taking forever to dry, Everdry also had the nice side effect of eating through clothes.
Source: Mental Floss
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TV dinners (1953)
Swanson changed our world when they introduced the first TV dinner back in 1953. They were such a huge success that they ended up selling more than 10 million during the first year of production.
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