1) Nobody knows exactly who holds the patent for the fire hydrant because the patent office that held the records burned down.
2) Croissants are originally from Austria and actually aren’t French.
3) In a deck of cards, the king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
4) The average person spends 2 weeks of their life waiting at traffic lights.
5) Before rubber, people used bread to erase pencil marks.
6) Speaking of pencils, they have enough graphite in them to draw a line 35 miles long.
Source: politifact.com
7) Velcro was inspired by the burrs from plants that get stuck to you.
8) Chocolate milk was first sold as medicine.
9) There are about 177,000 ways to tie a tie...and I only know 1!
10) Silly Putty was originally made to be a rubber substitute during WWII.
11) You can’t fold a regular sheet of paper in half more than 7 times. But if you could fold it just 42 times, it would be thick enough to reach the Moon!
Source: scienceblogs.com
12) It takes about 850 peanuts to make a jar of peanut butter, and peanuts are actually legumes not nuts.
13) The original name for Q-Tips was Baby Gays.
14) Chainsaws were originally invented to help with childbirth.
15) Aglets are those plastic pieces at the end of your shoe...yeah they have a name.
16) Oreos are actually a rip off of the Hydrox cookie.
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17) If you stacked every Oreo ever made, they would reach the Moon and back over 5 times.
18) Movie trailers used to play after the movie, hence the name.
19) The first webcam was set up to check the level of a coffee pot at Cambridge University without getting up.
20) It takes 27,000 trees a day to keep up with the world’s toilet paper demands.
21) Every time you shuffle of a deck of cards, it’s probably the only time ever that any deck of cards has been in that order.
Source: 4freephotos.com
22) The variety of banana that we all eat is the Cavendish. They are all clones of a single banana and are genetically the same.
23) All of the batteries in the world can only store 10 minutes of the world’s energy needs.
24) The first product to have a bar code was a pack of Wrigley’s Gum.
25) The ampersand (&) usually means the same thing as “and,” but in movie credits they stand for different things. The “&” designates a team working together while “and” is used for people that worked independently.
26) If you wanted to buy the parts to make an iPhone in 1991, it would have cost about $3.5 million.
Source: apple.com
27) Over 400 million M&Ms are produced everyday.
28) Revolving doors are much better for energy savings as they exchange 8 times less air with the outside environment than regular doors.
29) Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
30) And Captain Crunch’s full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch, but he isn't really a captain. The stripes on his uniform are actually those of a commander.
31) Adding salt to pineapples will actually make them sweeter. And this is how they grow!
Source: wikimedia.org
32) A full head of human hair is strong enough to support 12 tons of weight.
33) There are more fake plastic flamingos than real ones.
34) Despite the name, refried beans are only fried once.
35) Yo-Yos used to be called bandalores.
36) A 747 jet would cost you a lot to fill up because it holds over 63,000 gallons of fuel.
37) The Japanese company YKK makes over 90% of all the zippers in the world.
Source: sewbizfabrics.com
38) Most people know honey is the only food that doesn’t go bad, but did you know that out of the 20,000 species of bees only 4 make honey.
39) Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to watch TV for three hours.
40) All of the gold humans have mined would fit into 4 Olympic sized pools.
41) Also, 99% of Earth’s gold is in its core and unobtainable. If we could mine it, we would be able to coat the entire planet in a 1.5 foot layer of gold.
42) The signature line on checks is not really a line. It just the words “authorized signature” printed really small.
Source: brokensecrets.com
43) Tic Tacs are listed as having 0 grams of sugar, even though that is the first ingredient.
44) The Legos produced in 2012 would wrap around the world more than 18 times.
45) Birth control pills also work when given to chimps.
46) A strawberry isn’t a berry, but avocados and bananas are.
47) Tonic water glows in blacklight.
Source: wikimedia.org
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