Flaps On Juice Boxes
How could we have spent our entire childhood doing something so simple, yet so wrong? If you’re lucky, your parents addressed the flaps, even if they told you a lie like “the flaps help you get the most liquid out of the box.” Instead, after incorrectly holding the juice box by its middle, which caused the juice to spill out of the straw, I was left with juice on my hands and a half-empty juice box. The horror.
Flaps On Juice Boxes
To prevent this, those flaps are supposed to be turned outward. Is it simple to transport? Check. Spill-proof? Check. Is it true that our entire existence has been a lie? Double-check. We’re not going to let any youngster suffer from ignorance the way we did now that we know the bulky flaps can be folded outward to make them simpler to handle for small-handed children. I feel like we’ve reached a point in our life where we can start drinking juice boxes. We’ve got years to make up for everything we’ve done wrong!
Ridges On Coins
We’re not sure whether you’ve noticed, but quarters and dimes have rough edges. Go ahead, we’ll patiently wait for you to take some coins from your wallet to compare the differences, if you still have any coins at all, given that credit cards have taken over the globe. To set the scene, the year is 1972, and the U.S. Mint has just been formed by the Coinage Act. Coins used to be stamped with varied weights to indicate the coin’s real value.
Ridges On Coins
Minters put ridges on coins (a process known as reeding) to make it simple to discern whether the edges had been shaved off, to prevent thieves from filing shavings from the sides of the coins and selling the metal. Another advantage of doing so was that it made counterfeiting money more difficult. This is no longer a concern because coins are no longer made of precious metal. Our coins, however, still have edges.
