31 Amazing Facts about Household Items – mental_floss List Show Ep. 325
31 Amazing Facts about Household Items – mental_floss List Show Ep. 325
Amazing facts about mundane items.
The List Show is a weekly show where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, John looks at some facts about ordinary household items!
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Keurig really is horrible.
Leave the cubs out of it…
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sir how did you get this intro tell me the source.
Bacon Toothpaste! Why wasn’t that put in for the pork chop party?! (unless they aren’t doing that anymore and I missed the memo.)
I call a flipper a fishslice
just checked out 4 big brand magazines and 1 newspaper, and NONE of their barcodes began with 977. not even close LOL better check your "facts" mental floss!
I refer to flippers as "flatulas" because they’re flat spatulas.
John, I think you mean a Cat’s Tongue and a Spatula.
I have a solution to the K-Cup thing: Get a reusable K-Cup. They cost about $5-10 depending on brand and where you buy then and then buy your favorite can of drip coffee. Cheaper and saves the environment.
OH MY GOD there is an oringal Fisher Price Little People dog and the Count on their shelf at 1:05
5:38 It looks like even the fireplace is shocked to find out "aspirin" used to be a trademark.
Neither of those things is a spatula, from what I was taught in cooking class.
Someone obviously didn’t play enough Mario. Plus I’m like a half a decade late
I said the same thing the first time I saw a Keurig, so did my dad. People are stupid. I wish I could find a way to charge more for something cheap.
"Expensive to own."
He meant expensive to operate, since the little grind cups cot a lot.
I think you have to take back what you said about Wrigley Field. Cubs are a pretty good team these days. 😁
That’s why you say spatula thingys
I FEEL SO SPECIAL I DO NO ONE NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON NO ONE INVOLVED IN THE PRODUCTION OF THIS VIDEO NO ONE WHO HAS VIEWED IT UP TO THIS POINT HAS CAUGHT THE FACT THAT AT APPROXIMATELY 5 MINUTES AND THIRTY THREE SECONDS INTO THE RUN TIME THE PERSON SAYS AMERICAN’S WOULD SAVE 410 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR IF THEY PURCHASED GENERIC DRUGS INSTEAD OF BRAND NAMES. THE POPULATION OF THE U.S. IS 328.2 MILLION PEOPLE HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THEY CAN SAVE 410 MILLION DOLLARS ON ANYTHING??!? I’VE ALWAYS BELIEVED THE AVERAGE PERSON IS SLEEPWALKING THRU LIFE AT LEAST PART OF THE TIME BUT THIS TAKES THE CAKE.
cubs just won .
Disliked because "Geico." Won’t watch mental floss ever again because "Geico."
He didn’t put a quarter in the pig when he talked about bacon flavored toothpaste!!
#11. I saw chocolate flavored toothpaste at an organic hippy store before. Sounded revolting.
Wait….Popsicle is trademarked?! What’s the generic term for it?
That wasn’t a witch window. The *shades* aren’t supposed to be tilted. The windows themselves are rotated. Ooh, I can’t say it right. Just go google it.
Better yet, here ya go.
http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/vermont/witch-window-vt/
Well so much for that shade thrown on the Cubs
How dare you ruin SpongeBob?!?!? 😀
Generics must, by law have the identical chemical composition as the brand name drug. When you pay for the brand name meds you are just paying for their ad campaigns.
A turner is a fish slice in the U.K.
We were required to use fountain pens until high school. After switching, my handwriting deteriorated dramatically.
I’m going to start a sin journal
Fire flower – power up
Piranha plant – enemy
The picture you used for a witch window was not a witch window.
I just searched YouTube for that Japanese Kleenex commercial. I’m considering sleeping with a light on, lol. Creepy…
What’s paper?
One that is not a fire flower to the Olympic flag is not a household item three great vid
nahhhh, that thing for flipping burgers is a spatula.
I don’t undersatnd why they "return to the salon" at the end of each video. Where do they go otherwise?
WHERE IS THE SCOTCH FLAVORED TOOTHPASTE?!
A cursory google search yields a product long since discontinued. I demand a toothpaste that tastes of peat smoke and despair!
Isn’t Styrofoam a former trademark?
Lol cubs are a terrible team? The won the world series
Im still watching all of these videos. I have a good amount to watch!
Why did my teacher send me this
So number 6 is more heat than light? That’s make a good book title.
I love the internet, it’s always hard at work disillusioning me that I know everything about something, this time it was about the history of the computer. I know I do not know about every computers ever build but I thought I knew everything about historically significant computers, the Honeywell kitchen computer might not have sold a single unit but it seems like it was the first computer meant for home use. I wonder how it would have fared if it had been marketed to male bachelors instead of a male view of an housewife. This was right on the leading edge of the hobby computer revolution. The fact that it was very expensive does not mean it would not have sold, geeks with money must have been a thing back then too, but I guess most of them were busy thinking about creating their own computers.
I wrote the above before watching the whole video. I want to add that I always buy generic medication even if I do not have to foot the bill myself, insurance pays for my anxiety drugs but I had no hesitation with choosing the generic brands when my pharmacy asked which ones I wanted. Patents protect the inventor for only a limited time for a good reason, a limited time protection is good for both competition and also innovation. Without patent limit we would probably still use medications patented fifty to a hundred years ago, we still do for the better ones. Limited patents forces the drug company to innovate.
On the minus side it also forced them to find loopholes and alternate strategies to make money, like changing one molecule in a drug or bribing doctors. Weirdly enough the changing one molecule model is one that is also pursued by the illegal drug syndicates, that’s where so called "bath salts" come from, synthetic drugs slightly different from illegal ones in order to side step the laws.
Name brand medicine is better than generic
Typical conversation at the pharmacy.Customer: "I’d like a box of Claritin."Me: "Did you want the brand or the generic?"C: "Whats the difference?"Me: "Its the exact same drug, loratidine, the generic is just less expensive."C: "Better get the name brand."
You can weird out people in Japan with commercials?
Ok, bubble wrap I’ll give you because we call it that here too, but I had no idea that Americans actually use the brand name for things. Here in the UK we very rarely use brand names to mean the item itself (although we do say Hoover when we mean vacuum cleaner and James Dyson is doing his best to change that anyway). Kleenex are tissues, Chapstick is lip balm, Band Aids are plasters and Popsicles are ice lollies. Are Americans just really susceptible to marketing or something?
The window is not tilted