Name: 15 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT EVERYDAY OBJECTS
Uploaded: 2017-03-07T12:47:55.000Z
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So for today I found some super interesting facts

from around the internet because you guys enjoyed the last one I did so much.

Don't forget to comment down below at the end of this video

and tell me how many of these fifteen you already knew.

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Have you guys ever looked closely at a deck of playing cards?

Next time you guys have a pack of cards in your hands, check it out because this is amazing.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

He must have shaved in the morning before they took his photo for the pack of cards.

In all seriousness, the reason for this is because of the printing process used ages ago.

Disfiguring would occur on the wood blocks they used for printing.

And that's why the king lost his mustache.

But hey, I think he looks younger without it.

It wasn't because he shaved in the morning.

Another interesting fact about him is that he was also called the suicide king

because it also looked like he was sticking his sword into his head.

I don't know about you guys, but I always make sure I go into the movie early

so I can watch the exciting trailers for new movies coming out.

But have you ever thought, like, why are they called trailers when they're shown before the movie?

Well the truth is, they actually used to be played at the end of the movie.

But the problem was everyone left after the end of the movie and no one would stick around for the trailers.

But when it's a Marvel movie, I always make sure I stay until the end,

so anyways, they just moved the trailers to the beginning of the movie

and just happened to keep the name the same.

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So the invention of fire was a turning point for human evolution.

And we've come a long way from using flint to create fire, which includes using Doritos.

These days, we have matches, lighters, and stoves at our disposal.

But did you guys know that the humble match was invented after the lighter?

This seemed really strange to me, but it's actually true.

The first lighter was actually converted from a pistol and was invented in 1823.

And the match, as we know it today, was invented in 1826, which is a three year difference.

It's like saying that planes were invented before cars.

I've signed so many things in my life that I got so lazy

that my signature is like the most easily copied signature in the world.

But apparently the signature line I've been signing on all this time is apparently not a line at all.

On things like bank checks, it's actually a micro security print.

This line is actually made up of tiny little fonts and words

that either say "signature only" or "authorized signature" repeated again and again and again

and it turns out that my check has the bank name written on it repeatedly.

When you look at it with the naked eye, it actually just looks like a simple line,

which I actually thought it was for the longest time,

but take a magnifying glass and pop it over it and you can actually see the tiny, small writing.

The reason why this exists is to protect checks and other important documents,

so if someone tries to photocopy something like a check, the actual print is actually too small to

replicate using a photocopier, so it will just come out as a line and that's when you know it's a forgery.

Now every time you receive a check, don't forget to take a magnifying glass and just double check that line.

What do you think of when you think of "croissant"?

And if you guys thought that as well, you guys would be wrong.

Croissants were actually first made in Austria.

However, it was later introduced to France when the Austrian princess Marie Antoinette refused to eat

any other pastry apart from the one from her homeland.

This might be something you guys probably don't know about me,

but I never really even had a Barbie growing up.

I had Ninja Turtles and Transformers instead,

but what I found about Barbie was actually pretty interesting.

The full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

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