25 Weird and Wonderful Facts About Everyday Objects You Didn’t Know
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Uncover the extraordinary hidden within the ordinary with our intriguing video: "25 Weird and Wonderful Facts About Everyday Objects You Didn’t Know." Prepare to be amazed as we reveal fascinating tidbits about items you encounter daily, from the unexpected origins of paperclips to the surprising secrets behind your favorite kitchen tools. Join us on this journey of discovery and broaden your knowledge about the world around you. If you're a curious mind seeking to add some unexpected trivia to your repertoire, this compilation is a must-watch to satisfy your appetite for weird and wonderful facts about the objects we often take for granted.
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It really is!
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Same lol
If it moves, but shouldn't : duct tape. If it doesn't move, but should : WD-40.
Also, many cultures used broad leaves as plates or bowls; many in India at least still do. The leaves are often fed todomestic animals, especially cows, once the food is eaten, which is efficient and kind. Where water is scarce or barely safe to use without boiling or the like, and where one has to carry water from a well or river, maybe for many miles/km, not having to wash dishes saves a lot of effort and water itself.
One thing I love the most about this video is that I didn't know most of these. And you normally don't get that with videos like this. Thank you for the great content❤
Glad you enjoyed!
I was a cabinet maker for many years and on occasion one would cut their finger. your standard band-aid would never stay on, so we started using electrical tape. The surprise was that the wound would be closed the next day, almost like it never happened.
2:53 Blink-182. Immediately knew. ❤️
Me too❤!
Me 182!
One I find amusing is that the name Dumpster was at one point a registered trademark. Another fun one I remebered was that during the lewis and clark expedition they had a Girandoni Air Rifle from around 1780 and used during the Austro Turkish War. It had a gravity fed system similar to that on a daisy red ryder was also known as a windbusche or 'wind rifle'.
You rock for fun useless facts
I've been using chopsticks since I was 4. I asked my uncle , that ate with chopsticks primarily, if he would teach me how to use them. He told me that he would, only if I promised to never eat Chinese with anything but chopsticks ever again. That was 36 years ago and I have still kept my promise.
No offence to your uncle, but the invention of spoons and forks made them redundant ..
@@peterbaker1879 What he was teaching me was a respect for the culture that he lived in for 10 years while he was in the military. Chopsticks are still the prevalent utensil in a lot of Asian cultures.
@@bretmaples Yes, a good man by any standards 👍✌️
A good promise to keep. Also considerimg how absolutely diabolically gross eating with a fork is at a restaurant. That fork has been in THOUSANDS of mouths. Ill take my disposable chops please. lol
I love this channel…I learn so many interesting things!!
No, the qwerty keyboard was NOT created to slow down typing, the layout was to place commonly used characters so they were not next to each other so there was the least possible chance of mechanical jam when two were used in rapid succession.
That's what I said...got into an argument with a college professor...Name of the course..."How to succeed in college"...I did not do well.
Love your videos Mike! Thanks for your info and humor
Thanks for watching!
Also, coffee beans aren't the only edible part of the plant. Coffee beans are the pits of coffee cherries, and the cherries are also edible. I would love to try them sometime.
Glad you made a list a little more reminiscent of the more lighthearted topics. Lately they've been pretty dark and i haven't watched a video lately. Thank you for the hard work and i am still a proud fan of List 25 ❤❤❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@list25 Yes I so agree! I love your channel, but in his day & age of such turmoil, I greatly appreciate the "lighter side" postings 🙏🏼🙏🏼🐕🐕
Hope your out if that dark place 🤍
Another keyboard, fun fact. Notice that the number pad on a keyboard or calculator is upside down from that of a phone. That is because early phone users when introduced to digital keyboards in test groups made more errors dialing with a standard keyboard than the flipped keyboard, that you see now.
This was in an effort to minimize miss dialing of phone numbers when the digital keyboard was released.
I always wondered about that
I don't know what you mean - - the keypads have been around my whole life and I've only seen the ringing numbers at older family members' and at antiques or old restauarant
Sigh.... the "QWERTY slows down typists" myth raises its head again. You did get it partly right, though. The goal of QWERTY was to keep common pairs and sets of letters far enough apart to keep the machine from jamming, resulting in making typists *faster*, not slower.
It becomes obvious if you type words like 'of', 'the', 'and'. Also, notice that lesser-used letters like Z and Q are "left pinky" letters - the least coordinated finger of a right-handed typist.
A lot went in to designing QWERTY, but slowing down typists was never an objective. Ive been battling this myth forever, but it wont die!!!! 😢
Yep, knew that, because every computer class I took in school made me do extra research on the QWERTY keyboard in an effort to make me respect it.
I would never type properly, but pick with my fingers, and I still was faster than most other students and well above average. I'd had physically traumatic brain damage beforehand that made my hand use weird, and autism made it worse. Suck it, teachers, you have to pass me as long as I can keep up.
@@Nylak-OtterMy son is autistic and has never had a typing lesson. He types with his index and middle fingers ~70wpm - my best is 60ish and I had "proper" lessons in high school (1980s). I could never fathom trying to "correct" his style as he gets the job done! 😊
Back when I was learning to type it was physically a very different world. Accuracy was paramount as 1. corrections with that white goop was SO obvious and 2. if you found a type-o after pulling out the paper you were screwed - there was no way you'd ever get it lined up perfectly to fix the error. Also, ink ribbons weren't cheap and neither was paper, so you had to get it right the first time.
All this caused justifiable OCD with teachers and professional typists 'back in the day'. As humans are messy creatures, some take that perfectionism into places where it's no longer needed. I'm glad you stood your ground! Being critical of someone's typing style nowadays is uncalled for.
Wth the keyboard being such an integral part of daily life, it's important to know there is no madness behind the method and every letter is in its proper place.
Fans can direct heat in different directions as well you have to push either a button on your remote or a switch up on the ceiling fan to make a change direction. IDK which direction either clockwise or counterclockwise works but you're supposed to be able to keep your energy bills at bay if you know which way.
Just a note on using chopsticks from someone who used them all my life. The technique you showed is the one we show to "learning adults". I learned as a kid, by using the same 4 fingers (thumb, pointing, middle and ring), but I hold them together between the thumb, the pointing finger on top and the other 2 fingers below, open them by inserting the middle finger between the sticks, and close by removing the middle finger. Takes a lot more practice but allows to exert much more precision and force closing, also looks more elegant because the "resting" position have the sticks parallel and together. Fun fact, there is a third piece of wood called the chopsticks rest that we leave on the table to rest the sticks when not in use, so that the sauce sticking to the tip of the sticks does not soil the table cloth. Rich people have assorted chopsticks and chopstick rests, usually black lacquered with mother-of-pearl inserts making super fine art, like the 4 animals (dragon, lion, turtle, phoenix) or the 4 plants (apricot blossom, orchid, chrysanthemum, bamboo)
I bet they were absolutely gorgeous to look at too.
I had a large set of the black lacquered with mother of pearl but mine had metal tips on them. I learned the same method you described. 👍
My best friend in the 4th grade was Hmong and she taught me to use them. She also taught me not not point at the moon or it may come down and cut my ear.
Thanks for bringing back that memory! Also, those stands sound lovely.
When I worked at a Japanese restaurant many years ago, I would help patrons who were new to using chopsticks by showing them how to hold the top stick like you would hold a pencil, then insert the lower one in the crook of the thumb.
I was so expecting Mike to bite that plate! Lol, and I hope Mike and all gives us good news that they're safe from Idalia. 🙏
I am safe.
Speed was not the reason that keyboards jammed, because what the modern typing keyboard is actually designed not to slow typists down, but to stop keyboard keys jamming, by placing the most used letters in more sensible places to avoid jamming; that depends on the langauge as well. It definitely doesn't slow typists down. My late mother typed at an average of 60 wpm and my average is 35 wpm, in spite of the fact that I am typing with one hand, using either my right index finger or a stylus. The slows down typists is a myth, caused by a lack of understanding about langauge use versus the original mechanical typewriter keyboard. It just actually a case of ergonomic design for ease of use.
It just made me wonder,
What's the difference really between memorizing one keyboard+ muscle memory,
over another ? The common repeated letter patterns used most frequently in the English language should have some influence, but wouldn't that not really matter when you can do it at a fast speed, and a comfort level where you don't have to think about the "act" of typing? 🤔
Food for thought.
@@FurtiveSkeptical As a typist, who before I got arthritis in both hands, typed with them, I say it was a little of both. I type using only a bit of my peripheral vision, sometimes not looking at all, because I can if I want cheat, using the auto speller, but I always double check, what I have typed. The gap between the letters on a virtual keyboard is much smaller than a physical one. So it's part muscle memory and part keyboard memory. I think some langauges are probably, more difficult to type in than others.
@@julianaylor4351 I would agree on the difference between languages for sure.
Hope your arthritis doesn't trouble you too much.🤕
Thank you for your reply.
Be Well ✌️
I don't remember if I passed or failed my typing course, but I do remember The fastest I could type was between 10 and 15 words a minute. First my spelling was very bad and remembering where the keys were was worse. I cam say, in the 45 years or so, since I took the typing class, my spelling has improved somewhat, but remembering where the keys are (even just on finger on my phone), is still difficult to remember sometimes. The main reason for the slight improvement is: the auto fill.
@@leonlaf9929 But you may have to watch out for the pesky auto correct, it insists on writing rubbish, sometimes, so always proof read, before posting. ♥️
Here’s to you Mike! 🍻Cheers to the last Blink-182 album that didn’t totally suck!😅
I caught that too! Finally someone else that knows!!!
So true.. I'm a Dude Ranch guy personally.
Edible plates should make a comeback as a green alternative to plastic plates
I was going to do a masters thesis on why there were so many wars in the middle ages, no coffee to take the edge off.
yes! chop sticks are fun...I love using them when eating popcorn mixed with olive oil, salt and pepper and Basil...The sticks help keep my fingers from becoming oily! it makes it so much more fun! 💖
Basil? Fresh or dried?
It sounds yummy!
I do same with Cheetos
25 reasons mike & this show rocks!
My best friend since I was nine years old, was born in Hong Kong. His mother took us out to a Chinese restaurant when I was 16, and I've been proficient with them ever since. I'm now 67.
Duct tape was originally called "duck tape." It was designed to repair oiled (waterproof) canvas called "duck cloth." At least I remember reading that somewhere - actually there's an article in the Chicago tribune about it.
Sorry, but it was originally "duct tape". The last t in duct and the beginning t in tape tend to slur together, leading to "ductape".
List 25 is the best. Welcome back Mike. Keep em coming.
Thanks! Will do!
Good to see you back Mike!
FINALLY!!! MIKE YOU ARE GETTING THE RECOGNITION YOU HAVE BEEN 💯% DESERVING!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Why, thank you. Though don't stop sharing our content!
Six people live in our house, yet there are three toilets. Phones do not require quite the same investment that toilets do. I don't have to set aside permanent private floor space and connect it to water and sewer like I do when building a bath/rest room. I do for a toilet.
Thank goodness i can listen to my favorite utuber while im working ❤
I absolutely love that coffee cup!!!!!!! I need one.
The maker of your Kingsford grill has an interesting history. Edward Kingsford, a relative of Henry Ford, helped Ford buy some timberland in order to more cheaply produce wood for Ford's cars (back then, a lot of wood was used in auto production). Henry Ford wondered if the leftover wood scraps could be used for anything (you know, to make more money). After figuring out how to press charred wood into little blocks, charcoal was born. It was initially sold under the Ford brand name before changing the name to Kingsford in Edward's honor.
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I get so excited when I see a new post from you!! Keep up the good work
Yay! Thank you!
BLUNK 182! Loved that album
I'm definitely not a fan of Barbie (not talking about the movie, but the whole franchise in general) however, a niece of mine recently recieved a barbie doll for her birthday and it had larger and more realistic body porpotions than any other normal barbie. It wasn't "stick-thin", which was awesome to see. 😊 I'd get more on board with Barbie if they learn to ditch the typical "barbie body" altogether.
Yes Mattel changed Barbies proportions years ago. His info is outdated.
good to know, and I dare say it's due to the movie, so Barbie is now based on the real proportions of a person.
You a fan of the fat acceptance movement? It's the only movement that involves no movement at all.
if ur fat just tell us
@@jeremyjohnson9585 based
15 -: One major reason for the Head Rest ( As it’s more correctly called) in Ancient Egypt was to elevate the head so one could see whether there were Scorpions and other creatures creeping and crawling around one’s bed. So one didn’t just blindly stumble out of bed and get stung or bitten. It wasn’t really always for health or comfort reasons ( In fact some people say we should be sleeping without pillows because that’s better for our necks and spines and shoulders in certain positions. In spite of that I’ll still be using my pillow because I’m used to sleeping with one)…..⚛️☮️🌏
Didn't they adore cats? Keeping the creepy crawlies away from my bed are my cats' jobs. Also, you could literally just look. My bed frame doesn't have an open space beneath it so dust, animals and random crap can't get under there.
I don't use a pillow, either. I usually sleep on my side and sleep on my arm like a weirdo. I do use a pillow to cuddle with if I'm sleeping alone, or between my legs to keep my hips aligned, though! 😂
Scorpions? I wouldn't be sleeping at all then, but I would eventually get so tired that I would collapse wherever.
I love this channel
And we love you
so glad you are back ( I will be saying this in every video maybe if I remember )
The pants and jacket was a good one 😂 I just might still have that CD, but no CD player 🤔😂
Thanks Mike ❤
You're welcome!
Mike, what is one gadget you can’t live without?
Oh boy...I'd say cellphone, especially because I use it for both jobs a lot. Enterprise and List25 would be so much less efficient without my phone.
@@list25Lol and there you supported the reasoning behind the fact that more people in the world have cell phones than *TOILETS!* 🤣🤣🤣🤣
*PRIORITIES!* 🤣🤣🤣
Mike, the Take off your pants and jacket reference is a Blink 182 album. 😊
So happy watching you once more - we love you out here in CZcams world!
great vid, thanks. 16. nail polish (varnish). So that's why it's really good as touch-up paint for cars! Never knew that! All the best....
2:01 The reason Barbie's waist is so small is so that she will look normal when dressed. Waistbands on the doll's clothes were bulkier than on a human's clothes, because the fabric was not to scale. So when it was folded and sewed, the wasteband was much thicker in proportion to the waist. They intentionally made her waist smaller to accomidate the out of scale waistbands without the doll looking fat, or WORSE.....pregnant.
Some years ago, I saw a kerosene powered refrigerator. A tiny flame moved the refrigerant around. No freezer section, and it kept things about 40°F. I think it was from the '30s, which meant it had been in use 50+ years when I saw it. A gallon of kerosene lasted about two weeks.
17:10 Never use duck tape on your ducks!
And never use masking tape on your masks. Never use electrical tape on actual electricity. Never use Scotch tape on a Scotsman. (Pisses them right off!) Um...what else? Never use ticker tape on your ticker. Never use audio tape on your ears. (BTW, I open Tuesday Night at Bag-O-Laughs in Milwaukee Wisconsin.)
I'm so impressed by your attention to detail and the amount of research that you must do for these lists!
List 25.
Welcome back, ❤
With Barbie I read somewhere over 20 years ago. She would be over 6’6”.
Yes I can use chop sticks, so if I was thrust into the depths of Japan, I could at least feed myself. But I liked the visual effects.
Soup should be served in bread! - 😊
Chinese cards were then added to the dice, that can be found all over Europe, the Middle and Near East, which lead to just another load of ways to gamble.
This was a fun, informative one! Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I am so glad that you said Grill instead of Broil
Blink-182 Album :)
Here are a few item origins I can remember right off the bat:
1: Chainsaws were originally made to help mothers in child birth. These were hand cranked instead of motorized.
2: Corn Flakes were invented to stop masterbation along with Graham crackers. Kellogg and Graham both believed that eating bland foods were the best way of getting ppl to stop touching themselves.
3: Listerine was originally made to clean your floors with and not your mouth.
4: Play-Dough was supposed to be used as a way to clean the soot off of everything, but they made the products when we started using electricity to light our homes thus eliminating the soot problem. The creators were going to give up when they saw their own children playing with the putty so they got rid of the cleaning chemicals that were in them and began marketing the resulting product to children as the fun squishy toys we all know and love today.
Your awesome never change
Another home run of a video keep it up Mike with list 25 go Bolts ⚡️
I love List 25!
I learned how to use chopsticks when I was in my teens. That’s like 60 years ago now.
Mike you were WAY TOO EXCITED, zipping that jacket. 😂
It's fun lol
Sooo, for the 6 billion cell phone users, does it take into account people who have multiple cell phone?
Horses and zippers together are AWESOME
I heard on a newscast that ceiling fans will allow your air conditioner to operate more efficiently, lowering the temperature by two to three degrees.
Probably by creating eddies and thus mixing the cooler air (which would naturally sink) with the warmer air in the room. Living in Australia, can confirm that the layer of air nearest the ceiling in a poorly insulated room is perceptibly warmer than air near the floor. I imagine it is possible to achieve thermal layering as found in still water. but haven't personally experimented with air-conditioning (something of a traditionalist aversion to it, like some people seem to harbour for airbags in their cars - " no air con, we die as Aussies" so to speak).
There is a vere good reason that a ceiling fan turns or rotates in 2 direction.
Since warm air rises, in the cold season you want to have this warm air pushed down by the action of the fan; this will keep the air warmer, starting under the fan and moving outwards, to warm the rest of the room.
During the warm part of the year, you have the fan pulling up the warm air under the fan pushing it along the ceiling, down the walls, which will push any cooler air towards the general centre of the toom, hopefully cooling off the room itself.
@@leonlaf9929 Thanks for that. I'm a firm believer in science, despite the fact that I'm not very good at it.
@@leonlaf9929
I think you have that reversed:
In summer and hotter months, your ceiling fan blades should rotate counterclockwise. When fan blades turn counterclockwise, they push cooler air down in a column. This creates a “wind chill” effect, which is what you want.
In the colder months, your furnace warms the air in your room. Since warm air is lighter than cold air, it will rise up to the ceiling, and stay trapped there. However, by changing your ceiling fan direction to rotate clockwise, its blades can push that warm air to travel across the ceiling to the perimeter walls & down towards the floor. It also brings the cool air from the floor to the ceiling. This helps evenly distribute heat throughout the room and prevents a drafty “wind chill”.
I personally have a list of 25 reasons why what you do contributes to my day's joy. Really. Prosperity to you, Mike, and the team. Awesome work. #appreciation Thank you guys. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Take off Your Pants and Jacket was a great album. I love Blink 182.
If you are in the military (last time I checked), you would find zippers not under z, but under f, for fastener, interlocking slide. Military intellegence at it's finest.
Blink182. Not bad for a 57 year old English Bird😂😊
I just came across you channel and have been binging on it. Your "zipper" reference was to the BLINK 182 Album of the same name.... "Take off your Pants and Jacket" 😅. Keep up the amazing work! Your content is informative and your delivery is hilarious. You have a viewer for LIFE with me.
Thanks for explaining the BLINK 182 reference
And here I thought Chocolete made the world go round (referencing your Reeses coffee cup)
I'm not big on bread bowls but I do love the Tex-Mex kind.... Taco salad bowls.
I learned to use chopsticks when I was 10 and a friend of my dad came home from Japan and brought us some. My husband and I are both really good with them. My younger son and his family are as well. And they're into all things Japan because of anime, to the point that we put them on a plane this morning for a 13-hour flight to Japan for a week. The grandkids are 23 and 21 and both said they would be eating anything and everything they could, even the stuff we would be grossed out about. My husband (their step-dad/grandfather) told them not to anything still wiggling and the 23 year old grandson said "Oh yeah, I will be trying it." I can't wait to hear how this trip goes. Chopsticks are on my "oh yeah, please" list for them to bring us.
A friend taught me to use chopsticks 30 years ago and I immediately loved them - and Chinese food.
I'm 23 and hope to visit Japan. It's on my list of countries to visit in Asia and I would like to see it when I can. My dad and I are planning a second Europe trip, but I've been trying to plant the seed to hit Asia next
Blink 182 Album Reference!!🎉😊😂❤
When I was a kid, I attempted to figure out how to use chopsticks. I did it exactly the way you demonstrated. Yay!
Firstly , awesome channel Mike ! Been subscribed for a long time and never disappointed . Secondly , did anyone notice the word ' help ' in the background on the keyboard ? And finally , I hope everyone is well and in good spirits 😊
Actually, duct tape was originally used to tape insulation around the ducts.
Alternatively, it was never meant to be anywhere near ducts - it was originally made using a strong woven cotton known as 'duck'. Once the fabric ceased to be in common use, and people forgot its existence, the only type of 'duck' most know is the feathered variety. Would you use tape on a waterfowl for any reason? Nonsense! But use tape to patch a hole in a duct, makes more sense.
When I was in the army, we called duck tape, gun tape. When we were issued our personal weapons, the first thing we would do was usr the gun tape to secure 2 magazines together to allow for a much quicker reload.
We learned about the home keys in typing class and why the keyboard was placed in that order, back in typing class.
In Junoir High School.
In 1972-1973.
When it was a girls-only class. (The boys were all in auto shop class, because why should a girl ever need to know how to change a tire or check your own oil?)
But we tried our hardest to mess with the teacher and smash all the key levers together. 😂
Thanks. Great video
Glad you liked it!
Love the fun facts. Thank you.
Our pleasure!
Good job Mikey.
Always awsome and interpreting content
Truly Enjoy 😊 Subscribed & Share U Mike Lots of Fantastic Info Thanks Much Keep Wise Info Coming 👍
The flush toilet was invented by Thomas Crapper, hence the use of that term, and the shortened slang term "crap".
So Stoked this channel and Mike is back!!! YAY!! MIKE!
Oh the physical pain I could’ve avoided if I had known about duck tape and warts.
"Take off your pants and jacket" is a Blink 182 album.
Interesting facts !
I appreciate the blink-182 reference 😁
Love this program., 👍☮️
Why thank you
Just discovered your channel. Great content.
Mike: coffee makes the world go round.
Me: tea changed the course of world history.
Love your videos!
Very glad you're back on list 25, Mike! I miss your previous cohort, sorry I forgot his name, you 2 were excellent. Anyway, duct tape destroyed a wart on the bottom of my foot the size of a quarter, it took about 3 weeks altogether. Just wash, dry, put tape, repeat daily. The wart comes off layer by layer, the most fascinating part (to me) was when the 3 roots came out on the tape one morning. It's pretty awesome, painless and cheap!
Thank you kindly!
When it's hard that electric fan works as a heater. When it's hot, that electric fan works as a heater. Ironically
You’re definitely talking about the old Barbie proportions.
I lived the first three years of my life in Thailand. Note: I'm not Asian/oriental. I could use chopsticks long before I could use a fork. When in the military, my daughter was born in Japan, and thus she could also use chop sticks long before a fork. We still shock some people when we eat out at Asian places.
On the Keyboard segment. Love the HELP in the back ground.
Another great show!
Glad you enjoy it!
That take of your pants and jacket phrase is like an innuendo or at least thats what Blink 182 said.
thanks
I’ve been eating popcorn with chop sticks for decades.