19 Extremely Random Things I Just Found Out That Completely And Totally Blow My Mind This Week

Holy smokes.

1. Platinum is really, really, really expensive:

This is $721 of pure platinum. from mildlyinteresting

2. Highway signs are really, really, really huge:

This is a truck carrying the signs you see on the interstate from mildlyinteresting

3. Fanta in the USA and Fanta in the UK could not be more different:

USA Fanta vs UK Fanta from mildlyinteresting

4. The American food section in a European grocery store is...interesting:

American food section in a supermarket in Ireland from mildlyinteresting

5. This is what the inside of a garbage truck looks like:

Interior and controls of my garbage truck. from mildlyinteresting

6. There's not only a place that claims the longest hallway in America, there's also a plaque commemorating it:

I work in the building with the longest hallway in America from mildlyinteresting

7. Some hotels in Iceland have Northern Lights-specific wake-up calls:

My hotel phone in Iceland has a special button that will wake you up if there are northern lights in the sky. from mildlyinteresting

8. Ants, when putting their powerful ant strength together, can lift a glove up a pole:

I saw some ants carrying a glove up a lamp... from mildlyinteresting

9. The inside of an air mattress is sort of unsettling yet strangely beautiful:

the inside of my inflatable air mattress from mildlyinteresting

10. Under the right (or wrong) conditions, a lemon can look a lot like a big ol' yellow carrot:

This weird lemon that grew on our lemon tree from mildlyinteresting

11. Old cellular telephones used to have a peripheral for texting:

Found my old cell phone with optional clip on chatboard for ‘easy’ texting from mildlyinteresting

12. Mosquito bites can make a tattoo enter the third dimension:

I got a mosquito bite next to a tattoo and it made the letters swell up into 3D. from mildlyinteresting

13. Horizontally sliced bread not only exists, you can buy it:

The supermarket I work at sells horizontally sliced bread. from mildlyinteresting

14. Some really old pianos have built-in candle holders:

My piano from 1885 has a hidden pop-out candle holder from mildlyinteresting

15. Water can do this to a bunch of bricks:

This piece of wall that got rounded by the sea from mildlyinteresting

16. Big ol' sticks of pasta can be used as straws:

A local bar started using pasta as straws instead of plastic. from mildlyinteresting

17. Vodka does wonders on your dirty little driveway:

Last year we had a bag break and it dropped a 1.75L bottle of vodka and the pavements been clean there ever since from mildlyinteresting

18. This is what happens to colored pencils after termites get to them:

This old color pencil box after termites ate all the wood from mildlyinteresting

19. And you can make a perfect circle with LEGOs:

I made a circle out of lego bricks from mildlyinteresting

Neat!