On a great many cars there is a line of text etched into the passenger-side mirror warning that objects are closer than they appear, and nothing of the kind on…
Pick up a matched pair of shakers and count the holes. They will usually be different.
Then ask somebody which one is the salt, and you will get a confident…
A modern car will park itself, watch the lane markings, brake on your behalf and tell you the tyre pressures.
The thing it does about the sun is a flap…
For most of the twentieth century, small birds opened milk bottles.
They would land on a bottle left on a doorstep, peck or tear through the foil cap, and drink…
There is a pointed roof on the top of a milk carton, and most people have assumed for their entire lives that it is a spout.
It is not. The…
Nothing Is Freezing and Your Brain Is Not Involved
The name is wrong in every particular, which is worth getting out of the way first. Your brain does not get…