21 Useless Facts about Your Household Products


  1. A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.
  2. Approximately 18 billion disposable diapers end up in landfills each year that takes as long as 500 years to finally decompose all of them.
  3. Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
  4. Oral-B was the first toothbrush to go to the moon along with the Apollo 11 mission.
  5. The first commercial microwave oven was the size of a refrigerator.
  6. Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know your there.
  7. A broken clock is right at least twice a day.
  8. It took engineers 22 years to design the zipper.
  9. It takes one fifteen-to-twenty-year-old tree to produce seven hundred paper grocery bags.
  10. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during the World War
  11. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
  12. The end of a hammer, opposite the striking end, is called a peen.
  13. The microwave was invented after the inventor walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
  14. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
  15. There is no rice in rice paper.
  16. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb was afraid of the dark.
  17. The first ever “World Summit on Toilets” was held in Singapore in November 2001.
  18. About 85% or product warning labels on household products are inadequate.
  19. More than $1 billion is spent each year on neck ties in the United States.
  20. The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie “Psycho.”
  21. The first Tupperware item marketed was the seven-ounce bathroom cup in 1945.


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4 Comment(s)

  1. 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?

  2. 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!

  3. 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.

  4. Nigel | May 23, 2008 | Reply

    Oh Goodie - Another bunch of Internet FACT that is wrong -
    The Peen is the striking face of a peening hammer - used for rivetting and for shaping soft sheet metals.
    The part at the other end from the striking face is called the HANDLE

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