Goosebumps are an obsolete impulse to erect hair on
the body in order to keep it warm.
The ball on top of a flagpole has no purpose other
than decoration.
Pork and Beans is actually cooked inside the can. The
piece of pork starts out large and boils down to permeate the beans.
In the vast majority of assorted chocolate boxes, the
caramels are sqaure, nougats rectangular, nuts oval, and cremes
circular.
Pay
toilets were originally meant to defray costs of cleaning, but were
abandoned after it was discovered that they were trashed even more by
angry patrons.
The American Podiatric Association recommends
buying shoes in mid-afternoon: the time when the feet are
most
likely to be swollen.
The bottom half of a hamburger bun is always thinner
strictly for aesthetic purposes.
The
practice of yelling "fore" in golf stems from English military times
when the back line in a firing troop would yell to the line in front to
'ware before' (get down or risk getting shot). This was shortened to
"fore" in modern times, popularized first by Gerald Ford.
Modern
executions are always held between midnight and 7 a.m. They used to be
held in public at high noon, but city merchants didn't like the
distraction, and moral arguments soon grew in response to the
football-fan like crowds. Eventually public executions were banned and
moved out-of-sight, out-of-mind.
Ants gather on sidewalks because of the heat and
bounty of dropped food.
Until
1888, Heinz bottles were sealed with a cork. Also, ketchup necks are so
small because ketchup used to be extremely runny. The neck
assisted in the slow-down of the fluid.
The average home lawn would yield about $2,000 worth
of fruits and vegetables per year if used for harvest ground.
The
average body temperature according to Fahrenheit was originally 100
degrees, but later dropped to 98.6 after realizing the miscalculation.
Curad bandages glow in the dark from the static
electricity caused during opening.
Donuts
contain holes to avoid gooey centers. Without the hole, they would have
to be cooked longer, resulting in the over-frying of the exterior.
Newspapers tear smoothly vertically, but not
horizontally.
Shorter people tend to have higher voices than taller
people.
In bird droppings, the black spot in the middle is
feces, while the surrounding white is urine.
Toilet seat covers serve no health purpose because no
disease can be transmitted from a toilet seat.
Bell
bottoms are worn by sailors because they fit easily over boots, can be
easily rolled up, can be used as floatation devices, and can be taken
off easier than regular pants.
Humans can't smell their own
body odor because our olfactory nerve is easily fatigued in the
presence of odors. Thusly, it doesn't even let itself be "bothered" by
our scent to avoid information overload.
The wrinkling of skin (pruning) after long exposure
to water, is not the skin shrinking, rather expanding.
Absolutely
nothing happens to the used razor blades that are thrown down the used
razor blade slots in hotels. They accumulate between the studs of the
walls to collect dust forever.
Chocolate bunnies at
Easter were invented for the sole purpose of boosting chocolate sales
between St. Valentines Day and Mother's Day.
Wisdom teeth are an obsolete eating tool
once used by cavemen to chew meat several times harder than beef jerky.
