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…
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On the front of an enormous number of backpacks there is a small diamond or rectangle of leather or synthetic material, stitched at its corners, with two parallel…
There is a compartment in the base of most dishwashers that takes coarse salt, and a great many people either ignore it entirely or assume the salt is some kind…
Every box of shoes, every new handbag, every electronic device arrives with a small paper packet of beads marked with instructions not to eat it, and almost all of them…
There are two different kinds of date printed on food, they mean entirely different things, and the difference is not intuitive from the wording.
One is a manufacturer's estimate of…