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Useless facts about everyday objects
The things you handle without looking: the tip of a shoelace, the cage on a champagne cork, the little table in a pizza box. Almost all of them have a proper name and a reason to exist, and almost nobody knows either one.
- What is the metal band holding a pencil eraser called?
- What is the small pocket on jeans for?
- Why do my hands smell like metal after touching coins?
- What is the wire cage on a champagne bottle called?
- What is the end of a shoelace called?
- What is the plastic table in a pizza box called?