Actor and author Henry Winkler, who is now starring in a hit History Channel series show, “Hazardous History,” tells Newsmax that the program features eyebrow-raising details on how everyday life seems much more dangerous when you look back on the older days. 

For example, Winkler told Newsmax’s “Ed Henry: The Briefing” Monday that one of the show’s segments details how the soft drink 7-Up has a notorious background history behind its lemon-lime-flavored fizz that’s being sold today. 

“So 7-Up was born in 1927, bubbly, refreshing,” Winkler told Henry. “The tagline was, we’re going to take the edge off. The reason was, it was laced with lithium.”

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