There are buttons on the sleeve of almost every jacket, and on almost every jacket they do not do anything.
They cannot be undone, because on most garments there are…
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…
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…
The paper clip is one of the few objects in daily use that is genuinely anonymous. The shape everybody pictures - the double oval of bent wire - is called…