Believe It Or Not, These Aren't Actually Design Flaws

Plastic Cup Lids

Aside from their obvious purpose at keeping the liquid inside of cups, those plastic lids do a couple of other things. If you take the lid off and flip it over, the cup snaps perfectly into place and has a built-in coaster. Protect your furniture from that to-go condensation.

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The More You Know

  • If you've accidentally dripped candle wax onto your carpet, there is hope yet. First, put a paper bag down over the wax, then lightly go over the affected area with a steam iron. The steam will help lift the wax from the carpet and allow it to cling to the bag instead.
  • The world record for the tallest stack of doughnuts totaled more than 3,000.
  • When you go to the beach and take your cooler with you, sprinkle salt on the ice so that it stays frozen for much longer.
  • If you have all matching clothes hangers in your closet and sometimes you get one of the really cheap, plastic ones when you need an anti-slip hanger. One solution is to wrap pipe cleaners around the clothes hanger.
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