Surprising Basic Facts You Never Learned In School
"Birds don't live in nests. Nests are just where they keep their eggs. Birds just sleep in trees."
"Percentages are reversible. 25% of 10 is also 10% of 25, the former is just easier to calculate."
"Charcoal is wood, not rocks."
"'Honk if you're horny' is because you honk a horn. So you're horn-y. It's not just 'beep if you want sex.'"
"Pipe cleaners aren't just for arts and crafts. They're also for cleaning pipes."
"PetSmart is both Pet Smart and Pet's Mart. It's a play on words!"
"Soft drinks are called soft drinks because they don't contain alcohol. Hard drinks do."
Men's Wearhouse is a pun.
"Eminem calls himself Eminem because his name is Marshall Mathers. He was also required to spell it out prior to a record deal so he didn't get sued by M&M's."
"Boxer shorts are the style of shorts that boxers wear."
"They call it footage because film is measured in feet."
"Some stripper poles rotate and are not fixed. I always just assumed the dancers spun around the fixed pole through incredible body strength."
"Donkey Kong is not in fact a donkey."
"W = double U."
"The Beatles are a pun."
"That Alucard from Castlevania just means Dracula backward."
"The phrase 'bottom of the hour' means 30 minutes past the hour because the hand is at the bottom of the clock."
"It's called AstroTurf because it was used in the Houston Astrodome."
And finally: "That Bluey's parents' jobs are at the airport (drug sniffing) and an archaeologist (digging up bones)...BECAUSE THEY'RE DOGS."
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