A wine glass has a stem, a tumbler does not, and the difference is widely treated as a matter of formality - stems are for occasions, tumblers are for everyday.…
A pasta spoon has a hole in the middle of it, and the overwhelming majority of people who own one assume the hole is there to let water drain through.…
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On the back of a great many shirts, just below the yoke where the pleat sits, there is a small fabric loop.
Most people have noticed it, nobody…
Turn a padlock over and there is a small hole in the bottom of the body, separate from the keyway.
It has two purposes and they are both important: water…
Near the top of most washbasins, and inside most baths, there is a second opening - a slot or a round hole with a chrome cover on it.
Everybody knows…
The small metal plate at the base of a stapler, the one the staple legs hit, is called the anvil, and on most staplers it rotates.
Turn it and the…