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in the 1800's nearly Everyone would wear a top hat. the hatter would always make his hats by hand. The process of making a hats involves some chemicals and one of those chemicals would be Mercury. Hatters would take hours inside a closed area with no fresh air and the mercury would make them go crazy or mad. Hatters would mostly always known to be a little crazy or insane and that is where the cliche was formed.

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