Bet you didn’t know what that was for.
Bet you didn’t know what that was for.
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Useful Items
Life is stressful, so don’t you want to make it as simple as possible? Some things that have been hiding in plain sight are actually designed to relieve the stress in your life, but you haven’t even realized it yet.
Even pen caps are made more skillfully than you might think. The tools that we use to help us are even more helpful than you ever imagined. What if I told you common items had secrets you never knew about? Sure, some people like doing things the hard way, but that’s their choice. Learn the proper way to use these, and you can choose to make your life so much simpler.
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Prepare To Be Amazed
After seeing some of these hacks (which aren’t even hacks, because these uses are what they were intended for), you’ll wish every item ever came with an instruction manual. And I do mean every item. Because remember how I mentioned pen caps earlier? Well…
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Pen Caps
No, the hole in the pen cap isn’t there to prevent your pen from suffocating. It’s actually there to prevent YOU from suffocating if you’re silly enough to swallow the cap accidentally. You see, if you, or a small child or a dog were to swallow the cap, that would be bad.
But the hole allows some air to pass through so it wouldn’t create such an intrusive blockage in your throat. But also, don’t eat pen caps. We know there’s a lot of fad diets out there, but you’re beautiful just the way you are.
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Plane Windows
Hey, um, flight attendant? Yeah, there’s a hole in my window. Does this mean we’re all going to die? That teeny-tiny hole in the bottom of the airplane window is not only supposed to be there, it
This is in order for the window’s inner pane of glass not to shatter and for pressure to be equalized between the two panes. This keeps the cabin safe. Say it with me now: “Thanks for keeping me alive while I’m hurtling through the sky, little window hole!”
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Dashboard Gasboard
Is your world transformed? You’re welcome. No more going to the gas pump then awkwardly having to move your car around because you’ve forgotten where your gas tank is, or because you’re driving someone else’s car
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Extra Material
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Tic Tacs
I know this realization is a lot to handle. You might want to sit down for the rest of this list, if you haven’t already been floored. Tic Tac designer, you’re a real champ. Who knew this was possible?
How many times have you dropped Tic Tacs or spilled out way too many? The designers at the Tic Tacs factory knew this was an issue forever ago and fixed it. If only they had let all of us known.
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Fast Food Coaster
This is for when you wanna get fancy at Burger King. Which, frankly, should be all of the time. You are among royalty, so try and show some respect. You can act dignified at fast food restaurants. How?
Well, did you know the lid for your soda can be used as a coaster? Again, this isn’t a genius life hack. They were designed to be used this way. Only nobody ever figured this out until now. Time to make up for lost fancy time.
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Toilet Seat Covers
The flap on toilet seat covers goes in the front, people! This helps prevent you from dragging it into the bowl when you sit down. Why didn’t anyone ever tell us this before? We’ve been living life all wrong.
Just think of all the hassle, embarrassment and germs we could have prevented entering our lives if this was more intuitive. There need to be public service announcement messages for all these item’s hidden wonders. And we’re not done yet.
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The Blue Ends Of Erasers
For a change of pace, here is a secret use that you may have heard of. Unfortunately, this legend isn’t true. And here we thought we knew something, yet we know nothing at all! This involves those pink and blue erasers.
Rumor was that the pink side was for erasing pencil marks, while the blue side was exclusively for erasing pen. While it turns out the blue side is effective at doing this, the pink side is just as effective. The blue and pink design is simply an aesthetic choice.
Hey even though it’s nice to know that both sides work, doesn’t make you a little said that the legend is false? Like your childhood died a little bit upon learning this?