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There's a trick to foil and plastic wrap.
There are perforated spots on either side of a box of aluminum foil or plastic wrap. Punch those tabs in, and they hold the foil or wrap in place, and you never have to deal with accidentally flinging a roll across the kitchen ever again.
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Air isn't mostly oxygen.
Air is actually 78 percent nitrogen. An over abundance of oxygen can actually make you feel kind of high. That's why oxygen bars started to become a thing for a bit in the late '90s and early '00s.
Bobbing for apples started as a British courting ritual.
Today, bobbing for apples is a popular party game. But it turns out, the quirky activity started as an 18th-century British courting ritual, according to the History Channel. In one set of rules, each apple was assigned to a potential suitor. The bobber would attempt to bite into the apple associated with her preferred beau. If she bit it on the first try, they would be destined for love. If it took her two tries, their love would sizzle and then fade. If it took her three, their relationship would be doomed.
Bats sing love songs.
Humans aren't the only creatures who sing to our sweeties—lots of animals do, too! In one notable 2009 study published in the journal PLOS One, researchers in Texas found that Brazilian free-tailed bats have distinguishable syllables and phrases that they use as love songs to attract suitors.
"The sounds are made in a specific, arranged pattern to form a song, and there are actually organized sequences within each phrase. They are made to attract and lure nearby females," lead researcher Kirsten Bohn said in a statement.
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Mister Rogers' mom knit all his sweaters.
Along with his reputation for being one of the nicest men in America, Fred Rogers was also well known for his signature zip-up cardigans. But if you thought you could easily buy the same sweater as everyone's favorite neighbor, you're out of luck. In one episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, he revealed that his mother had hand-knit each of them.
Smiles are innate, not learned.
It's heartening to know that your most joyful reaction is something you're simply born wanting to do. "Individuals blind from birth could not have learned to control their emotions in this way through visual learning, so there must be another mechanism," San Francisco State University psychologist David Matsumoto said in a statement. "It could be that our emotions, and the systems to regulate them, are vestiges of our evolutionary ancestry."
Quokkas are adorable animals that always look like they're smiling.
Go ahead, look at that face for as long as you'd like. While there are plenty of cute animals out there, there aren't any others that look as perennially chipper as the quokka. Found on the small islands off the coast of Western Australia, these marsupials have a charming bone structure that makes them look like they're grinning from ear to ear. Some people have even dubbed them the "happiest animal in the world," according to National Geographic.
There's a word in the Philippines for the urge to pinch or squeeze something that's cute.
If you can't stop yourself from picking up an adorable puppy and hugging it close, then you need to know the Tagalog word "gigil," which, in the Philippines, describes the seemingly irresistible urge to squeeze things that are cute. And for more words you didn't know, check out these 33 Funny Dictionary Words You Didn't Know Actually Existed.
A woman makes custom dolls for children who have various physical conditions.
Amy Jandrisevits knows that kids want to see themselves represented in the world around them—and that includes in their toys. That's why the Wisconsin resident makes custom dolls that have scars, birthmarks, various physical conditions, and disabilities that match the children she's making them for. "It makes them not feel so alone," Jandrisevits told CBS News of her business, A Doll Like Me. "Their logical brain knows this is just a doll. But the very innocent child part of them still feels like, 'Now I'm not the only one that looks this way.'"
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A village in India plants trees every time a baby girl is born.
When the leader of Piplantri, a small village in Rajasthan, India, lost his 16-year-old daughter in 2006, he decided to turn his grief into something beautiful. In order to ensure that the village treasured each baby girl (since daughters were not traditionally valued as much as sons), he set up an initiative that sees trees planted every time a girl is born in the village, according to The Guardian.
The new baby's parents also sign a legal affidavit confirming their daughter will receive an education and will not be married before she is of legal age. As of 2018, 350,000 trees had been planted.
Earth's ozone layer is healing.
Because of pollution, the Earth's ozone layer has seriously suffered. And of course, that's no good for anybody, since the fragile gas layer protects our planet and shields us from the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays. That's why it's such a relief that climate change experts believe that the ozone layer will fully heal within 50 years, according to a 2018 report from the United Nations.
The recovery is thanks in large part to the Montreal Protocol of 1987, which put a global ban on the use of one of the main culprits for the damage: chlorofluorocarbons (CFOs). Previously, CFOs had been common in refrigerators, aerosol cans, and dry-cleaning chemicals. And for more trivia that will make you feel smarter, study these 50 Science-Backed Health Facts That Will Blow Your Mind.
The voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse were married in real life.
Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse have had one of the most enduring romances in Hollywood history. But behind the scenes, their story is even sweeter: Wayne Allwine, the man who voiced Mickey, fell in love with and married Russi Taylor, the woman who provided the voice for Minnie. "We just started hanging out as pals, and the next thing you know, we were an item," the late Taylor recalled to Variety of her husband, who died in 2009. "We just had fun. He was the best. He was a wonderful man, he was a good man, and he was a kind man."
The man who invented the polio vaccine could have made billions by patenting it, but purposefully didn't.
When Jonas Salk created the polio vaccine, he could have patented it and made an estimated $7 billion, according to Forbes. Instead, he chose not to do that. On April 12, 1955, when CBS's Edward R. Morrow asked the scientist who owned the rights to the vaccine, Salk replied, "Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"
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Lucky charms really do work if you believe in them.
Do you have a horseshoe hanging over your door or a lucky penny in your wallet? Some superstitious people believe that certain objects can attract good fortune and, in a way, they're totally right. In a 2010 study published in Psychological Science, people who brought a "lucky charm" with them to take a series of memory and analog tests performed better than those who did not.
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