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The Shaggs: three teenage sisters forced to play in a band by their father. Almost completely musically inept, their album failed to gain any traction until years after it was recorded, when Frank Zappa claimed it was one of his favorite albums of all time.

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When Natalie Wood was 7 years old, her mother would tear up butterflies in front of her to get her to cry for a scene in a World War 2 movie where she played an orphan. Her mother also moved the entire family to LA when Natalie’s child acting career gained traction.

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1. Color toilet paper was trendy in the past. In the 1950s, people would even coordinate their toilet paper with their bathroom color scheme. It reportedly died down when concerns about the safety of pastel dyes for the skin and the environment gained traction.

2. A "band-aid" for "people of color" was marketed in the late 90s and early 00s, but failed to gain traction, partly due to retailers insistence on only featuring the item in the "ethnic sections" rather than in-line with its "white" counterparts.

3. A fan theory, that predicted Don Draper would be revealed as the famous Air Pirate D.B. Cooper, gained enough traction that Mad Men series creator Matthew Weiner went on CNN to debunk it

4. Someone falsely created a wiki about "Street Sharks" that gained so much traction its info was used on IMDB and its details were fondly, incorrectly recalled by many fans of the show.

5. Mail was successfully delivered via rocket in 1931 by German engineer Reinhold Tiling. The project never gained traction, however, because Tiling died in 1933 as a result from injuries sustained during a fuel explosion in his workshop.

6. There had been previous sit-ins to challenge segregated businesses going back as far as 1939, but most were in the north and never gained as much traction as the Greensboro Sit-ins.

7. Marrying for love is a relatively new thing and only gained traction in the last 50 years!

8. While diapers began being mass-produced in 1887, the idea of "disposal diapers" didn't gain traction until the 1950's. Big name companies couldn't see it being commercially successful.

9. In a study testing the ‘efficacy’ and tolerability of a penile-extender device in the treatment of ‘short penis’, 15 patients applied a traction force of from 1.3 to 2.6 pounds for 4 to 6 hours per day for six months. Average gains of nearly one inch in flaccid length remained after one year.

10. There is one orthography for ASL that is starting to gain traction named si5s (s-handshape, i-handshape, 5-handshape, s-handshape in ASL), and that it will be taught as a mandatory class in the US' only Deaf university: Gallaudet.