Don’t you love learning some useful hacks? Well, I’m pretty sure everybody does. And how about finding out, let’s say, some feature on your iPhone that makes your everyday life easier? Yep, I'm sure, everybody likes learning that. So let me tell you some examples that hopefully will make your everyday life easier as well! So, the iPhone has a feature that can take a photo of the laundry symbols and translate them to understandable language. Or, it turns out that toasters have a removable tray at the bottom that catches the crumbs and you can remove them.
One Reddit user recently started a thread online asking folks to share common products that have a feature which many people might not know about. The post caught a lot of attention and people online actively shared various things that most of us probably haven’t heard about. So scroll through and find out about these not-so-hidden but unknown features!
More info: Reddit
#1
On the left side of a car's steering wheel is a stick. Pushing the stick up or down will indicate to other drivers which direction you intend to turn!
You're welcome!
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387points
#2
Mobile phones have a low powered speaker just above the screen, so you can put the phone to your head and other people can't hear your call
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252points
#3
Closed an important tab accidentally? Press CTRL+SHIFT+T to bring it right back.
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245points
#4
Barilla Pasta has a Spotify list. Each specific song has a duration to match the relevant pasta’s cook time
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220points
#5
The little pepper looking thing that hangs off of most pin cushions is filled with emery powder to help clean/sharpen your pins and needles.
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182points
#6
Browsers let you use ctrl+f to search within a page. You can use this, for example, to check if 500 people have already made a joke about turn signals
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177points
#7
Lifetime warranties on consumer goods. Like Columbia jackets and Jansport backpacks. If your zipper fails or the material separates or is no longer repelling water, file a claim online and pay for shipping to the factories. They will either repair it or ship you a comparable new version. Companies like this use your returns to identify weak points in their products while retaining lifetime customers.
172points
#8
The number of people on this site who don't know to clear their lint trap after using the dryer is too high
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158points
#9
When you are writing in Microsoft word or Outlook and accidentally leave caps lock on, select the text and press Shift F3. It will change the text between upper and lower case, and there's a third option to make the first letter of each word upper case too.
Always seems to blow peoples minds when I tell them.
138points
#10
The amazon bags are reusable. Turn them inside out, and turn the piece of plastic off to reveal the tape to reseal.
Very useful for making returns.
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108points
#11
Swiss army knife, parcel hook. Most people don't know what it's for, but it lets you use the knife as a handle for carrying unwieldy c**p.
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104points
#12
A lot of people think that Febreze just covers up odors with perfume.
It's actually an excellent odor *remover* and there's an unscented version that works extremely well and leaves no smell behind. It's just that when they first brought it to market, a lot of people didn't like it because they associate "smelling clean" with perfumed products. They found that adding a perfume to it increased their sales. It's hard to find in stores, but you can still order the unscented version on Amazon.
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102points
#13
Turning your phone sideways in calculator mode gives you a full scientific calculator.
Holding letters down on your phones keyboard brings up a selection of ‘alternate forms’ șö ŷòų ċæņ ďo þħīß! ŴØÁĦ
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102points
#14
The second button down on the left on a gas pump will often mute the audio coming from it.
Also, whoever decided to put videos on gas pumps should be sent to The Hague for trial.
Edit: lots of people are saying it's the second button down on the right. Just try whichever and see if it works.
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101points
#15
Nearly all staplers can make two kinds of staples: regular and temporary. You can spin the strike plate around by pushing it up from underneath and the resulting staples will go out instead of in, making them easier to remove.
I thought this was common knowledge, but my wife of 14 years was amazed when I showed our daughter how that worked.
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100points
#16
A regular pair of binoculars pointed at Jupiter will reveal four of Jupiter’s moons! Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.
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94points
#17
Toasters have crumb trays in the bottom that you can and SHOULD remove and clean
92points
#18
If you want to move the cursor on the text you just typed on the phone, just slide your finger to the left or right of the spacebar. No more annoying "tap tap tap oh s**t I accidentally deleted it"
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92points
#19
Even though it's only been a couple decades, I feel like people forget that you can just buy an HD antenna and watch local channels instead of needing cable/satellite.
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87points
#20
If your blinker is faster it means you have a bulb out
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72points