21 Facts About Everyday Things You Never Knew About

1. if you look at it on the street you'll think a fire hydrant is about 3 ft in height but the actual size of the device used to provide water supply to Firefighters all over the world is twice as large that is if you count the rest of the hydrant which is hiding underground they're mostly red and it's not just a matter of Urban Design first of all they need to be of bright easily noticeable colours so firefighters can spot them fast when they need to the choice of colour depends on how much water the hydrant can hold it can sometimes vary depending on the location but here's the breakdown.

A red fire hydrant can Splash 500 gallons of water per minute while an orange one at least 1,000 gallons green ones mostly process 1,500 gallons of water per minute and the most plentiful ones colored blue can generally contain over 1,500 gallons

2. Bowling fans isn't it super annoying when your bowling ball gets

cracked turns out that most of them get damaged because of incorrect storage or spikes in temperature now come on and face it since it's already cracked a bit AT you curious about what's actually inside the bowling ball I sure am let's have a look they mostly make the inner core of the ball of powdered metal oxides like calcium or iron oxide they mix them with some resin and Catalyst to harden the whole mixture so that light bulb shape you now see inside of the ball is its heaviest part it also influences how

your bowling ball rotates when going down the lane.

3. spray paint cans when you shake make a weird noise but what is that thing in there it's called a pee and it's meant to hold the paint mixture in place and maintain its shape they generally make it out of plastic metal or ceramic it acts as a whisk to make sure your paint is well mixed before you apply it to your surface of choice.

4. Have you ever wondered how soda bottles keep that refreshing Fizz for that long? Well, they have a little plastic ring fastened to the lid. They place it there to keep the gas from escaping and make the soda go flat even if you shake it around in your bag the whole day.

5. speaking of things we use on a hot summer's day wait don't put your baseball cap on just yet take a look at it for a minute and you'll notice there's a small button on the very top it functional or is it just there for the sake of design way back when people started using Fabrics to cover their heads some say the button was actually functional since it's on top of the cap where the fabric panels come together the top button helps keep the cap Crown in one single piece now with recent advances in Fabric and pattern design the button is more of an aesthetic feature it's used to cover up the joint point of the fabric panels your cap might not have a button at all but don't you think a cap actually looks better.

6. cotton pads have two sides and if you take the time to look at them carefully they're different in texture just in case you've ever wondered why the textured side is for applying makeup and the even side is for before removing It.

7. bookworms this one's for you dust jackets that come with a lot of hardcover books are not just meant to make your book look pretty they also double as a bookmark just fold the pages you've already read underneath the inside of the jacket and voila.

8. next time you reach out for your favourite shirt take a look at the top button hole it should be stitched horizontally and all the other ones vertically turn out that the dress shirt was designed this way since the first and the last buttons were first ones to unbutton throughout the day they then changed the direction of the buttonhole to ensure the shirt would stay nice and fitted before you're ready to take it off.

9. these days we have so many variations of this awesome dessert that it's hard to imagine we've ever lived without it you can find different types of cookie dough ice cream or even chocolate chip cookie cake basically everywhere but the famous cookie wasn't actually invented until 1930 The Story Goes that a woman named Ruth Graves Wakefield Was preparing some chocolate cookies as she was waiting for some guests to arrive she soon figured out she was out of baker's chocolate a crucial ingredient for the classic cookies to fix things up she chopped up a block of semi chocolate thinking it would eventually spread out evenly throughout the batter given the heat of the oven things didn't necessarily go as planned but hey it's great they didn't because this is how she invented This Modern dessert we now can't get enough of.

10. speaking of popular snacks the potato chip is even younger than the chip cookie well at least historically many stories are trying to explain how it was invented one of them goes like this a chef named George Crumb based in New York put the chips together In 1953 he decided to try a different cooking solution when one of his customers didn't have nice things to say about his French fries he said they were too thick and kind of mushy then crumb came up with potatoes that were thinly sliced and fried until brown people loved the dish and they welcomed the first ever batch of chips with open Arms.

11. Ice cream anyone if the story is true, back in 1904 at the St Louis World's Fair one ice cream shop owner ran out of cups to serve his dish so he fashioned a waffle into the shape of a cone and the rest was history.

12. okay I'll admit it chewing and gum like Treats have been around since

the ancient Greeks so this one isn't particularly a revolutionary Discovery but the actual we buy today wasn't there until the late 1800s an American inventor named Thomas Adams wanted to mix together different chemicals to create rubber he tried and failed for that matter to play with chickle for his experiment but ended up fashioning this neat treat they still use chickle to this day to produce most Chewing gums.

13. Back in the 1800s there lived a man named Jean Baptist joli who worked in the fabric industry as a textile maker. How he came up with this next invention that we use a lot these days has less to do with him and more to do with his maid. The Story Goes that the woman accidentally knocked a kerosene lamp over onto a tablecloth instead of getting upset over the damaged fabric Jolly noticed that the substance actually made the material cleaner figured it out yet yep that's how the idea for the very first dry cleaner popped up a very neat accident if I do say so myself.

14. grocery carts have loops for a reason you don't want to put your jack packet in your cart next to a bunch of potatoes and onions do you hang it on the loop instead it's there to help you organize your cart better carts also have a cool section at the bottom whenever your cart's full just lift it up and attach a shopping basket for extra purchases lift up the whole metal thing sit your basket on the horizontal bar above the wheels and secure it with those handy hooks.

15. if you've got some pesky parsley stuck in your teeth try this tip it can be hard to get it all out with loose floss you need more tension just tie it in a knot.

16. Toothpaste Stripes may seem a bit weird it's just a marketing trick back in the 70s a leading toothpaste brand added a blue stripe to show that their toothpaste had double action solid white toothpaste worked just as well but those blue bristles on your toothbrush actually makes sense they gradually lose their color over time when the Blue's faded it's time to change your Toothbrush.

16. Ever notice that tiny hole on the bottom of a padlock 's hidden purpose is to drain water out to keep it from rusting. It's also the place to lubricate a padlock. A drop of oil in there will make it open and close way easier.

17. Those ridges on the edge of Dimes aren't just for show people used to shave off the edges then melt the edges down into new coins but thanks to the new design it's easy to tell if someone's been shaving the edges off.

18. If you still struggle with peeling an orange, here's another way of opening it: first cut off the top and bottom, make a slit on the side and pull it open.

20. That knobbly bit sticking out of the cap of your favorite cream is there for a reason. These tubes are usually sealed with foil so unless you love breaking your nails trying to open them just flip the cap over and push.

21. The tiny rubber disc under every bottle cap isn't just for seeing if you want a lifetime supply of soda, it's what keeps your drink all nice and bubbly. The lid keeps the liquid inside the rubber disc and keeps the gas inside until you drink it.