10 Household Products Facts

1. 21 Useless Facts about Your Household Products


2. Approximately 18 billion disposable diapers end up in landfills each year that takes as long as 500 years to finally decompose all of them


3. Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
   


4. The first commercial microwave oven was the size of a refrigerator.
   


5. Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know your there.
   


6. It took engineers 22 years to design the zipper.
   


7. Non-dairy creamer is flammable
   


8. The end of a hammer, opposite the striking end, is called a peen
   


9. More than $1 billion is spent each year on neck ties in the United States
   


10. The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie “Psycho”