21 Useless Facts about Your Household Products
Posted by Phoebe Chin on 05/6/08 in Useless Facts

- A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.
- Approximately 18 billion disposable diapers end up in landfills each year that takes as long as 500 years to finally decompose all of them.
- Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
- Oral-B was the first toothbrush to go to the moon along with the Apollo 11 mission.
- The first commercial microwave oven was the size of a refrigerator.
- Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know your there.
- A broken clock is right at least twice a day.
- It took engineers 22 years to design the zipper.
- It takes one fifteen-to-twenty-year-old tree to produce seven hundred paper grocery bags.
- Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during the World War
- Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
- The end of a hammer, opposite the striking end, is called a peen.
- The microwave was invented after the inventor walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
- There is no rice in rice paper.
- Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb was afraid of the dark.
- The first ever “World Summit on Toilets” was held in Singapore in November 2001.
- About 85% or product warning labels on household products are inadequate.
- More than $1 billion is spent each year on neck ties in the United States.
- The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie “Psycho.”
- The first Tupperware item marketed was the seven-ounce bathroom cup in 1945.
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DAVID | May 8, 2008 | Reply
“About 85% or product warning labels on household products are inadequate.”
Where do you get this gem? Trial lawyer-R-Us?
OzRichie | May 10, 2008 | Reply
Where did you get this rubbish?
Did you even think about the logistics of some of these things?
think about how heavy 700 paper bags are - then think about how heavy a tree is.
Or a person going to the toilet twice a day, using nearly 30 pieces of paper each time? C’mon!
BoggyWoggy | May 12, 2008 | Reply
Is OzRichie serious! Jeez…a tree is heavy because it’s long and stiff, like my ex-husband. Bags are floppy and short, like my current husband.