20 ordinary things, the importance of which you thought

The usual things that every day we have to do, full of surprises. We think that we know everything about them, but it is not. Layfhaker gathered the most surprising facts about the everyday items.

1. Boxes with an Asian fast food

You can, of course, to train finger dexterity, catching sticks noodles and rice from the corners of the box. A box can be deployed, then it becomes a plate, from which there is much more convenient.

2. The cylinder on the wire

This ferrite filter that suppresses high-frequency noise in electrical circuits. Thanks to it improves the quality of the digital signal. By the way, these filters are removable and.

3. Button on the back of the shirt collar

This button is needed in order to not tie sticking out from under the collar. Recently, these shirts do not occur very often, because the fashion for narrow ties that fit under this button, is long gone. Now these buttons perform a purely decorative function.

4. The dimples on the bottoms of wine bottles

When the sealed bottle stopper creates strong pressure on the bottom and walls. Deepening in donyshke allows you to distribute it evenly, due to which the bottle bursts. By the way, bottles intended for sparkling wines, the recess is greater than the rest of the wine bottles.

5. Horizontal loop for the top buttons of his shirt

Why all the loops on the strap shirts are arranged vertically, and the upper - horizontally? The answer is simple: in this place to unbutton a shirt more often. From horizontal loop button pops it is not as easy as from vertical.

6. Additional holes for lacing shoes

They have few uses, and for good reason: because of these holes can lace up shoes so that they are perfectly fixed on the leg and never natrut your heel during exercise.

7. Side holes on the sneakers

Besides the obvious answer is "ventilation", there is another version. The fact that the original shoes Converse All Stars made for basketball players. Sneakers laced so that the cord passes through the additional holes. With this shoe sitting very tight.

8. The hole in the spoon spaghetti

To ensure that you are not puzzled over how much spaghetti to cook, and made the hole. What is put into it, and there is a standard portion for one person.

9. The slot in the bucket handle

It will come in handy not only to hang the bucket on the hook. This hole can be used as a holder for a spoon, which you stirred the dish.

10. The hole in the cap of a ballpoint pen tip

Children are constantly pulling everything into his mouth and chew on pens and many people like at school age. If a child accidentally swallows with the cap, and it stuck in the respiratory tract, a small hole will not allow the baby to suffocate.

11. The arrow next to the filling in the dashboard

Cool tip, which, unfortunately, is not available in all cars. The arrow shows which side of the car tank. Irreplaceable thing, when you need to refill your rental car.

12. Hole in a stick of candy

In this case, the explanation is purely technological: a small hole is needed in order to candy stand on a plastic stick. When a straw dipped in syrup more liquid, it flows into the hole and hardens reliably captures candy.

13. Pocket under the panty gusset

This, of course, not the pocket. The fact that the gusset is made from special soft materials, other than the main fabric products. Side gusset portion removed in the side seams, an inner rear edge stitched seam. So how to make one more inseam is technically impossible, the front edge of the crotch leave neprishitym. It turns out a kind of pocket, which is not designed to store anything was.

14. Square patch with the slots on the backpack

Initially, these patches were only hiking backpacks: through slits skipped rope and carabiners. on the city backpacks they are sewn exclusively for decorative purposes.

15. The arrows on trousers

they have now become a mandatory attribute of classic trousers, but they had not been specifically devised. The fact that in the XIX century, many enterprises tailoring produce products for export. To load during transport took place as little as possible, before sending clothes pressed. As a result, the tissue formed wrinkles, get rid of that it was virtually impossible. I had to put up with them.

16. The pompons on the headdress

Funny fluffy balls first appeared in the XVIII century on the caps of the French sailors, who are tired of banging your head on the low ceiling and the ship's projections. Later pompons of different shapes and colors and there were many other military headgear. Thanks to them, it was possible to determine in which military branches serve their owners.

17. The plug on the end of stationery knife

There are several ways to break off the section of office Blunt knife. It is possible, at the risk of his fingers to do it manually, you can use a pair of pliers, and you can take a closer look to the very knife. At the end of his arm is a stub, which can be removed, put on unnecessary section of the blade and break off her.

18. The hole on the roulette ups

It is necessary in order to be able to measure large segments alone. At the beginning of the segment is threaded screw, for which, by means of this opening clings to the end of the tape measure, and the master moves to the desired length.

19. Number 57 on the packaging of Heinz ketchup

In addition, this number - part of the advertising slogan of the company Heinz ( «57 varieties") of these numbers on the bottle and has a practical use. If not poured ketchup, knock a couple of times with his hand on number 57.

20. Drawer under the oven

Typically, it is stored in the frying pan. But in fact, this is called the warming drawer. According to the idea he needed to ready meals are not cooled or warmed until oven preparing something else.