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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!

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About 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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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought I was going to learn a trick and ended up laughing.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is such a valuable feature on cars that some drivers don't want to risk wearing it out by using it too much - or at all.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Audi's now appear to auto indicate for you when you turn hard.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought you were supposed to signal a turn 100 feet ahead of time?

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Eh too much hassle to move my finger up or down /S...USE THAT TURN SIGNAL

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i'm learning now to drive rn... i thought this was common knowledge..

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10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, it is common knowledge among drivers. This is a “joke” which appears on every single one of these lists. Basically the OP is telling people to use their indicators, in a passive-agressive way. Good luck with your test!

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And there's another stick that adjusts the height of the steering wheel.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you for informing those who do not seem to know what that stick is for.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think BMW drivers need to be aware of this trick especially.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Better to pay attention to what other drivers are doing than to which light may or may not be flashing.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I ended up donating my car years ago because public trans is decent in my city and I don't miss the aggravation that is other drivers. I deal with it enough as just a pedestrian.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think a lot of car owners must not have opted for this upgrade.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Rumor is that BMW will begin installing turn signals in all vehicles for 2024. Activations of those signals will be subscription based.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One more time for those in the backseat not paying attention. Not using your blinker is not only annoying, it can be downright dangerous. Learn to drive or get off the road.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But why would I want to do that? It gives away what I plan to do! Where I live, we simply don't give the other driver an advantage like that.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All drivers please take note. Courtesy cost nothing.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like to indicate one way then go the other way just to keep people on their toes!

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That operates the windscreen wipers. Which it is dangerous to turn on unexpectedly when about to make a turn. Use the right hand stick.

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About 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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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About Closed an important tab accidentally? Press CTRL+SHIFT+T to bring it right back.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I logged in just to upvote this. Wish I had known this years ago.

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About Barilla Pasta has a Spotify list. Each specific song has a duration to match the relevant pasta’s cook time

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About 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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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I found this out when using my mom's setting kit, but mine just has pins in a box and no tomato. I'll have to see about getting one, or making one (maybe I'll make one that looks like Pinhead...)

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About 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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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’ve always wanted to know if 500 people made a joke about turn signals!

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About 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.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I splurged 10 years ago on a Litter Robot. These run around $500 (I used my tax refund and it was the best money I think I've ever spent.) A piece broke, and I called to see if I could just order the piece. The rep said they no longer made that model. I wasn't super upset. Ten years is a good run. So I was about to order a new one, when she told me they'd be happy to just send me a new unit. A brand new, $500 unit. I was blown away. Can't recommend the original Litter Robot highly enough!!!!

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About 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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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About

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.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Control Z will bring back your accidental deleted sentence, paragraph, etc. if you hit delete while the text is highlighted.

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About 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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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About 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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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About 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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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, I've met many odors that Febreze couldn't quell, so this was my assumption from the beginning.

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About 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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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About 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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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About 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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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About A regular pair of binoculars pointed at Jupiter will reveal four of Jupiter’s moons! Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About Toasters have crumb trays in the bottom that you can and SHOULD remove and clean

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also and yeah I know I'm dumb but if it's still toasting just raise the lever instead of popping the toaster to see what it looks like! .....I have two degrees and learnt this about a week ago 😊

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About 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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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Muchas gracias. Just found that it works on my android.

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About 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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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We did that - tried the indoor antenna first (which didn’t work at all) and then just bought the roof antenna and we get 43 channels.

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About If your blinker is faster it means you have a bulb out

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About Netflix has a Fitness or Exercise genre where you can watch and workout alongside videos.

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About With Google Maps on your phone, when traveling to someone, you can let them know exactly where you are so they can track your progress.

Open maps, tap your account icon at the top right, tap location sharing, and you have the option to share your location for a set amount of time (like an hour). You can then tap to send this location sharing directly to a person or to send it through a text message. The other person can now know where you are along your journey. This way they can better prepare for your arrival.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I use this while traveling both locally and out of town. If some bloke starts trailing me, the first person I click on in my contacts list will now know where I disappeared.

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About So one that kinda blows my mind and I use all the time now.

But you can program your phone to send texts at later times depending on the software.

You hold the send button and see if any prompts come up, it's insanely handy for calling out sick on a job (if you your bosses # anyway) or checking in with somebody when you think of them but know right now is a bad time to text, etc.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can do the same thing in Outlook email. I have definitely used it to make it look like I'm reporting in sick first thing in the morning when I really did it late the night before so I can sleep in. :) You can find it under Options > delay delivery and choose what time you want the message to be sent.

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About Least and best used feature in a Microwave is actually low power and defrost settings.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

100% correct on this one! When reheating, cut power to 50% and double the time. No cold spots.

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About You can use the Notes app on your iPhone as a scanner. Start a note, hit the camera icon, and it will give you the option to scan a document. You can do single or batch, and if you share the note or email it to yourself, it will come through as a PDF.

The "scan text" feature below that one is great too; instead of creating a PDF, it'll import printed (or some handwritten, depending on how tidy your writing is!) text into your note. You just hover over a doc and it'll pop up as text.

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I've met a weirdly high number of people that think you can't charge an EV off a standard wall outlet.

You can, it just takes a while. My Model 3 takes about two days to go from 0% to 100%.

As opposed to 40 minutes at a fast charger

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10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes. I come home from work, put my electric car in the garage, then plug it into the AC electric outlet. I charge it every night. In four years I have never used a public charger, just my home electric outlet. (BTW, my electric bill is about $20 a month extra because of this - still far cheaper than gasoline or paying for a charge.)

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About you can turn your brightness lower than the lowest brightness setting.

settings —> accessibility —> display & text size —> reduce white point

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s how I have my screen at all times! 95% reduced. It doesn’t hurt my eyes or give me headaches, and I fall asleep scrolling bp every night!

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About Rearview mirrors have a tab that lets you flip it upward, effectively reducing the glare if the car behind you has its high beams on. I've been surprised by how many people haven't been aware of this.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Typical BP “any image will do”. This is a side view mirror, which may or may not have anti-glare tint or auto-dimming; they don’t have a button or tab for the nighttime setting. The rear view mirror is the one inside your car.

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About I recently found out that if i press and hold my car key to unlock the car, all the windows open automatically.

Not so impressive but some people might try it out lol

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About On a Windows computer WinKey + Tab brings up a virtual desktop switcher. At the top of the screen, hit the plus (+) icon to make a second desktop. You can then use Ctrl + WinKey + L/R arrow to switch back and forth quickly.

I keep all my browsers on one desktop, and Spotify/Discord/Reddit on the other and swap back and forth all day at work.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love how Windows 10 has all these added feature where your desktop image jumps randomly to some weird configuration and you have no idea what key you pressed to cause it to happen.

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About The nub on the edge of a tape dispenser (the red one for moving boxes) is meant to find the edge of the tape. Press it down and move the tape around and it’ll peel it up

Edit: copying a video tagged below to answer questions Edit 2: here to blow your mind again. There’s a regular cap under all OTC child safety caps. Put a butter knife in there and pry off the cap example

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Again I concur with Ron. I tired this on multiple bottles. Even the ones that come off to reveal a regular cap are REALLY hard to get off.

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Windows Key + Shift + S is a shortcut to a snipping tool. It will freeze and darken your computer screen and then you can click and drag a square to grab a snapshot that you can then paste wherever.

If you double tap the lock button on an Android, it opens the camera.

You can take a phone screenshot on an Android by pressing the volume down and lock buttons at the same time.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I use the screen shot/snipping tool almost every day at work. (On my laptop, not my phone) Very useful.

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For a new Google doc, in the browser bar you can just type “doc.new”

Works for sheet.new and slide.new too

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About Apple camera comes pre installed with a feature that translates those laundry symbols

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i really thought you were gonna say the phones had a wash instruction 😂😂😂🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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E-readers and TTS is on everyone's phone. I'm blind and yall have no clue how many times a day people ask me "how are you reading and talking online?"

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What, you don't have touchscreen Braille?? My old uni laptop had specialist TTS designed to handle medical terminology (I was studying pharmacy). However, it was unable to differentiate between 'Asperger's' and 'a*s burgers' lmao.

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If you press and hold the flashlight button on your iPhone, you can adjust the brightness of it

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About KwikSet locks can be easily rekeyed in about 30seconds.

Buying the rekey kit online comes with four new keys that are cheaper than duplicating a new key.

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10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not a KwikSet lock. Those have a small hole to the bottom left of the keyhole, which is where you insert the reset key. Read the instructions very carefully! If you get it wrong you can find that neither the original or new keys work, which means a locksmith or new doorknob.

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That most new phones (at least Samsung) has a panic button function that will work even if your phone is dead (this depends on the phone). You can put in your distress contacts and when activated, they will receive a text, call and a live map to your location.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dead battery? No, this will not work with a dead battery.

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30 Popular Products With A Secret Feature That Only A Few People Know About Mastercard and Visa both offer cell phone insurance on some of their credit cards if you pay your phone bill with their card. This can cover theft and damage to your cell phone.


Edit: about time i add this to the main, check your credit card benefits guide for details to see if it's applicable. And yes it might be a pain in the a*s, but it's still there for some cc's

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The little door for your gas pump should have a spot to rest the cap so gas doesn't drip onto the handle

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mine just has a string attached to the cap to keep me from leaving it on the pump.

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Alumin[i]um boxes have two little tabs on the side you're supposed to push in. Now you don't have to struggle when pulling out a sheet.

That extra container you've never touched since installing your dishwasher? It's for Rinse Aid. Now your plates won't have streaks on them when you take them out.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For a cheaper and better tasting rinse aid use white vinegar. I've done this for 15 years and works really well.

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In the US, most electrical stuff uses a type of combination screw called ECX. It can be turned by a slotted, Phillips, or Square (Robertson) bit, or a special ECX unique bit.

If you use a Phillips with it (as most people do) it's very prone to stripping out. If you use a square bit, it is like a thousand times easier. But most people don't know about the feature and don't have a square screwdriver.

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On windows. Holding the shift key while you move your scroll wheel gives you horizontal scrolling.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is correct: however it works only if you have something to side-scroll. You can prove it by enlarging a web page over the window size, or by looking at a picture that more than fills your browser window. (downvotes, seriously??)

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Most microwaves can be muted.

You can call an iPhone to stop its alarm

Edit: you can also turn off the your PS5’s power up beep

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