19 Extremely Random Things I Just Found Out That Completely And Totally Blow My Mind This Week
1. Platinum is really, really, really expensive:
2. Highway signs are really, really, really huge:
3. Fanta in the USA and Fanta in the UK could not be more different:
4. The American food section in a European grocery store is...interesting:
5. This is what the inside of a garbage truck looks like:
6. There's not only a place that claims the longest hallway in America, there's also a plaque commemorating it:
7. Some hotels in Iceland have Northern Lights-specific wake-up calls:
My hotel phone in Iceland has a special button that will wake you up if there are northern lights in the sky. from mildlyinteresting
8. Ants, when putting their powerful ant strength together, can lift a glove up a pole:
9. The inside of an air mattress is sort of unsettling yet strangely beautiful:
10. Under the right (or wrong) conditions, a lemon can look a lot like a big ol' yellow carrot:
11. Old cellular telephones used to have a peripheral for texting:
12. Mosquito bites can make a tattoo enter the third dimension:
I got a mosquito bite next to a tattoo and it made the letters swell up into 3D. from mildlyinteresting
13. Horizontally sliced bread not only exists, you can buy it:
14. Some really old pianos have built-in candle holders:
15. Water can do this to a bunch of bricks:
16. Big ol' sticks of pasta can be used as straws:
17. Vodka does wonders on your dirty little driveway:
Last year we had a bag break and it dropped a 1.75L bottle of vodka and the pavements been clean there ever since from mildlyinteresting
18. This is what happens to colored pencils after termites get to them:
19. And you can make a perfect circle with LEGOs:
Neat!