Literally Every Single One Of These 40 Things I Just Found Out Completely And Totally Blew My Mind Last Month
1. This is what it looks like when your entire bottle of glue dries before you can use it:
Gorilla glue completely dried before we used any of it. Cut it out of the bottle. from mildlyinteresting
2. Zoos have emergency snake bite alarms for, well, emergency snake bites:
3. This is what a dollar bill from 100 years ago looks like:
4. If you take all the cookie dough from your cookie dough ice cream and bake it, it'll look a lot like this:
I harvested the cookie dough from my ice cream and baked it. This is the result. from mildlyinteresting
5. One of the largest words in the English language is, well, this:
6. This is what a 2x4 of wood looked like 75 years ago vs. today:
Due to different wood, different cutting methods, etc.
7. Some planes let you have a poo with a view:
8. This is what a legal bottle of cocaine looked like:
9. This is what the first page of Harry Potter looks like in Scots:
The first page of the Scots edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone from mildlyinteresting
Scots is a language native to Scotland.
10. You can save a loooooot of money by visiting your local library:
My public library tells you how much money you’ve saved by checking things out instead of buying them. from mildlyinteresting
11. Pink pineapples exist:
They apparently taste pretty much the same.
12. In 1950, you could go to the hospital for $7.50:
Always blows my mind.
13. Maple leafs can be very, very, very, very, very tiny:
14. They made giant, giant rings for the Lord of the Rings movies:
15. Sand doesn't stick to scars or burns:
Because there aren't any sweat glands.
16. This is what is inside a cheap baseball:
A whole lotta mush!
17. This is the distribution of letters in your standard Scrabble set:
The number of Scrabble pieces in a set as the alphabet as done by my daughter from mildlyinteresting
I need more J's.
18. In addition to the original (Nic Cage voice) Declaration of Independence, a bunch of copies were made and sent to other places. Here's what one of those copies looks like:
My small town has one of the original copies of the declaration of independence. from mildlyinteresting
19. When chickens don't get enough calcium, their eggs turn wrinkly:
20. This is what a counterfeit 50 dollar bill looks like compared to a real one:
21. This is what a pack of century-old crayons look like:
Found these 110(?) year old Crayolas in the back of a family secretary desk. The pack still has the crayons. from mildlyinteresting
22. Human touch can really be a doozy:
23. Some countries have stoplights with timers:
24. This is what the inside of a Magic 8 Ball looks like:
Such power.
25. The original Pledge of Allegiance didn't include "under God":
26. This is the going price for a Big Mac in Sweden:
Big Mac and Happy Meal prices displayed on the roadside at McDonalds in Sweden from mildlyinteresting
27. Zimbabwe used to have 20 trillion dollar bills:
This is what inflation looks like when it gets really, really, really, really bad.
28. If left in water long enough, a leaf will turn completely translucent:
29. You can find conjoined apples out in the wild:
Looks.......familiar.
30. Five leaf clovers exist to give you EXTREME LUCK:
31. Most places outside of the United States don't refrigerate their eggs:
32. Crosswalks for people on horses are a thing:
33. We finally have the answer to "what happens if a cactus gets hit by lightning":
34. Some dishwashers have a place just for chopsticks:
35. Fingers can grow back. FINGERS CAN GROW BACK!
Seven years ago, I cut off two finger tips with a hatchet. Since it was just above the nail matrix, they grew back. You can still see where the hatchet hit. from mildlyinteresting
Read more here.
36. Table hockey pucks can get very, very worn down:
Table hockey puck after about four and a half years of playing. New one on the left for comparison. from mildlyinteresting
37. People were talking about climate change as long as 110 years ago:
38. Dandelions can be gigantic:
39. This is what happens to a penny when it goes in one end and out the other:
What my 3-year-old’s insides did to this penny. Accidentally swallowed it on Thurs. from mildlyinteresting
40. And, finally, you've seen the "American" section in a grocery store before. Well, this is what the "European" section looks like in the US:
Neat!
