Hot take: I just learned from a museum plaque that the first auto body filler was basically horse manure and glue.

I was at the transportation museum in Detroit and read that in the 1920s, they'd mix glue with stuff like ground-up horse hooves and wood fibers to fill dents before paint, which is wild compared to the Bondo we use now.

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angelamason1mo ago

Remember reading that too and it always gets simplified. The "horse manure" part is mostly a myth, it was usually just ground hooves and hide glue. Still pretty gross by today's standards, but not quite that literal.

rowan4221mo ago

So my glue-on nails are basically just fancy hoof snacks?

ninah1022d ago

But didn't they use actual horse hooves in the glue itself though? I mean, even if it wasn't straight up manure, it's still crushed up parts of a horse's foot holding your fake nails on. Just trying to figure out if we're splitting hairs over what "hoof" means in this context.