![]() Zippers are named after the noise they make. But I like to believe it was 1928, the year after they built the Cyclone. If my source is to be believed, sliced bread became popular in 1933. Toasters were invented in 1905, but didn’t really take off until sliced bread came around in the 20s. He thought he was using a damp piece of bread at the time, which is what he used to erase stuff before inventing what we use today. A guy accidentally dropped some rubber on a document and saw the pencil line was removed. If you made a mistake before the 18th Century, I think you had to lick it off the page. Erasers came about roughly 200 years after pencils. The bristles remained boar’s hair until 1938 when nylon brushes were introduced. Someone in China made it happen. That person put boar bristles on the end of some bamboo so people could stop chewing random sticks. Toothbrushes were around in the 1400s and made out of bamboo. Speaking of not being that smart: the hole in the top of the pen cap is there to stop you from dying while chewing on it. The reason your pen cap has a hole in it is to stop you from choking on it. Take that, NASA! I just sent a picture of my penis to the moon and back in seconds. The Apollo Mission was achieved using a computer the size of a classroom and it still couldn’t do 1/1,000,000th the number of simultaneous equations an iPhone 6 can. The important thing is to know your limitations and to know that your phone barely has any by comparison. I mean, you’re not smart enough to make that happen, but that’s all right. Smartphones are smart enough to plan a moon landing. I love it when you can eat the dishes, so this is my dream. Later, people used slices of cooked bread. The Spartans, known for being laconic and kicking people down wells or whatever happened in 300, came up with the concept of wiping your face and hands with an “ apomagdalie“. It makes perfect sense if you don’t think about it even a little. If God wanted us to use utensils, why didn’t he make them part of our body like Edward Sccissorhands? QED. Feed thyself, heathans! The mini-pitchfork is only used by the Beast himself. shutterstockĪccording to a Gizmodo article, forks were considered unhygienic and a tool that went against God’s creation of your hands. Forks were once thought to be a tool of the Devil. Move over, Cliff Bars! There’s a new game in town. Scientists studying the efficiency of the human body compared to the efficiency of a gas engine found that a human being could bike roughly 912 miles on the energy contained in one gallon of gasoline. If you’re trying to watch your figure, don’t drink gasoline. A gallon of gas contains a lot of calories. Maybe mustard seed? Maybe bigger clumps of salt? Who knows. There was once a third ever-present spice on the dinner tables of the rich, but no one bothered to write down what it was. In fact, it was once rare and rich people would show their wealth by hoarding the stuff and adding it to recipes that must have been awful. Pepper, on the other hand, was a much more recent luxury. Humans had myths about salt having something to do with fertility and used it as currency. According to Bill Bryson, prehistoric man would light torches and stick them in the ocean, wait for the water to evaporate, and voila! Sea salt. shutterstockīefore salt (the only rock humans eat), became known ubiquitously as “table salt” its use was nearly universal in human history. Salt and Pepper have a long weird history of becoming the two spices left on the table. The authentic Chinese graphite pencil was advertised by using the Chinese color for royalty: yellow. shutterstockīack in the 1890s when not everyone made pencils with the finest graphite from China, manufacturers wanted consumers to know where their pencils came from. Pencils are that yellowish-gold because it represents royalty in China. I, for one, would like them to bring back the pince-nez. The Italians did it first, and then the Spanish added ribbon so the little frames would stay on your face. I always pictured a monocle used around the late 1800s at the ol’ opera house or whatever, but apparently glasses as we know them today were around in since 1284 or so. Glasses that fit on your face were invented in the 1200s. Here are some mindblowing facts about objects you interact with every day:ġ. For instance, did you know that vaccines don’t actually alter your DNA? Someone on Youtube just made that up! Huh. If you mentioned any of the things on the following list, there are probably a few facts you didn’t know about them. Did you know, however, that there are objects humans use every day that aren’t screen-related? Toothbrushes and forks, to name a few. In fact, I’m looking at one right now while getting distracted by the smaller screen on my phone and the bigger screen across the room with a news ticker on it. I interact with any number of screens each day. ![]()
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