25 Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names

1. Tittle - The dot over an 'i' or 'j.'
2. Lunule - The white, crescent shaped part at the top of a nail.
3. Crepuscular Rays - Rays of sunlight coming from a certain point in the sky. Also known as “God's rays.”
4. Ferrule - The metal part on a pencil.
5. Gynecomastia - Man-boobs.
6. Muntin - The strip separating window panes.
7. Morton's Toe - When your second toe is bigger than your big toe.
8. Arms Akimbo - Exactly what it looks like. Hands on your hips.
9. Desire Path - A path created by natural means, simply because it is the “shortest or most easily navigated” way.
10. Semantic Satiation - What happens when you say a word for so long that it loses its meaning. Limit limit limit limit limit limit limit limit limit.
11. Skeuomorph - “A design feature copied from a similar artifact in another material, even when not functionally necessary.” For example, rivets on jeans, copper color on pennies, the shutter sound on a digital camera, and the pointless handle above.
12. Brannock Device - What is used to measure your feet at the shoe store.
13. Paresthesia - The pins and needles feeling you get when part of your body falls asleep. Bonus! This is known as obdormition.
14. Phosphenes - The lights you see when you close your eyes and press your hands to them.
15. Armscye - The armhole in most clothing.
16. Wamble - Stomach rumble.
17. Feat - A dangling piece of curly hair.
18. Peen - The side opposite the hammer's striking side.
19. Rectal Tenesmus - The feeling of incomplete defecation. We've all been there.
20. Dysania - The state of finding it hard to get out of the bed in the morning.
21. Mondegreen - Misheard lyrics.
22. Petrichor - The it smells outside after rain.
23. Philtrum - The groove located just below the nose and above the middle of the lips.
24. Purlicue - The space between the thumb and the forefingers.
25. Aglet - The plastic coating on a shoelace.

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5/12/2011 12:19:52 PM

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"10. Semantic Satiation What happens when you say a word for so long that it loses its meaning."

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5/12/2011 12:23:21 PM

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"10. Semantic Satiation - What happens when you say a word for so long that it loses its meaning. Limit limit limit limit limit limit limit limit limit."

this drives me batshit at times

[Edited on May 12, 2011 at 12:27 PM. Reason : ^perfect example lol]

5/12/2011 12:24:49 PM

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" Reason : "

that's possibly the best reason ever used in the history of tdub. gg

5/12/2011 12:27:53 PM

up until a couple of years ago, I had no idea about the significance of a ring on a girls ring finger

5/12/2011 12:40:41 PM

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"On the topic of deep voices, how many of you guys didn't know that Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince was the voice of Shredder from the 90's Ninja Turtles cartoon?"

How about that. I guess I'll toss a few in the pot:

Wilbur from Mr. Ed was Scrooge McDuck and I'm sure everyone knows that Dr. Huxtable's dad was Panthro.

5/12/2011 12:41:43 PM

Okay, being as liberal as I can about that list of words: If you didn't know peen, you should die in a house fire.

5/12/2011 12:48:25 PM

I felt like a fool when I found out Jack and Meg White were actually exes and not siblings.

5/12/2011 12:57:21 PM

My girlfriend just told me last week what actually happens when you get your oil changed.

I HAD NO IDEA!

5/12/2011 1:06:05 PM

RE: tire rotation - I always wondered why everyone was always telling me how it's SO important.

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"BUT I THOUGHT ROTATING WAS HOW TIRES WORKED I MEAN"

They really should use a different word since tires do already rotate! Maybe tire switcheroo?!

5/12/2011 1:19:29 PM

why would it not make sense to move the tires around to ensure even tire wear?

5/12/2011 1:22:27 PM

^^wait, what did you think it meant?


I thought your original post was a joke.

[Edited on May 12, 2011 at 1:22 PM. Reason : .]

5/12/2011 1:22:34 PM

5/12/2011 1:26:35 PM

^^^If I knew the purpose of it, I would've known what the process was. But I didn't.

Now someone else post what you just learned recently so I don't look as dumb!

5/12/2011 1:30:48 PM

too late

5/12/2011 1:34:06 PM

Took me the longest time to realize that there was only 1 Stanley Cup that goes to the winning team for a couple months and then back to the NHL HOF. I probably could have guessed that, seeing as I don't remember a team ever displaying one in their arena, and whenever they do, there are massive lines to take pictures with it...but I never really paid enough attention to the NHL until the last two years.

5/12/2011 1:34:41 PM

If we're talking about cars...

I found out not too long ago that the D and R stood for Drive and Reverse.

My dad always said "put it in D" or "put it in R" when he was teaching me how to drive an automatic and I always thought in my head why is it not an F for Forwards and a B for Backwards. Then I drove a manual for years that didn't have any D or R, just numbers and I what I thought was a B for Backwards (but it might have been an R with part of the letter rubbed out looking back now)

Awhile ago, I pointed this out to someone thinking it would be helpful to have an F and a B, and they filled me in that they didn't randomly choose the letters D and R.



[Edited on May 12, 2011 at 2:02 PM. Reason : ]

5/12/2011 1:47:55 PM

^ and P is for Pee brakes right

5/12/2011 1:54:49 PM

actually R is for Racing and P is for Passing

5/12/2011 1:59:05 PM

Well when I park I put it in neutral and lift the E brake



oh and the E for E brake comes from the sound the car makes when you pull it at high speeds "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"



[Edited on May 12, 2011 at 2:09 PM. Reason : thx grimy]

5/12/2011 2:01:07 PM

i guess i learned this a bit ago, but when working with a plumber I heard him refer to the plumbing beneath a toilet as a 'pee' trap. I never really understood it until an actual license plumber informed me that it was a P trap because of the shape and is found under more than just a toilet

5/12/2011 2:02:27 PM

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"I felt like a fool when I found out Jack and Meg White were actually exes and not siblings."

they told people the were siblings for a long time.

5/12/2011 2:03:55 PM

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"I found out not too long ago that the D and R stood for Drive and Reverse."

holy fuck i hope this is trolling

5/12/2011 2:12:57 PM

^I'm afraid they're serious. This is just another reason why I'm afraid to drive on public roads with you idiots

5/12/2011 2:42:59 PM

Dear lord swingles no offense but I hope you're cute

I guess I shouldn't talk, during the royal wedding stuff my gf asked me why in the hell someone would get married at 6am

5/12/2011 3:08:30 PM

I did not know that the Winklevoss twins from The Social Network were played by one guy, Arnie Hammer

5/25/2011 7:36:25 PM

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"Then I drove a manual for years that didn't have any D or R, just numbers and I what I thought was a B for Backwards "

blind???? high????

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"Apparently epitome and apitamy are NOT two different words."

Commonly known facts you've just learned


you's a smart one, minka!

5/25/2011 9:51:50 PM

cockroaches poop when they die


I seent it

5/25/2011 10:01:38 PM

I never made the connection till I was 20+ that the alphabet song and twinkle twinkle little star were the same tune

5/25/2011 10:44:15 PM

^I realized that a few years ago and was like....

5/25/2011 10:45:45 PM

OMG! It is!

5/25/2011 10:46:41 PM

I knew this but had to inform my boss that the little arrow on the gas gauge is pointing to the side of the vehicle that you fill it on. He kept asking me what side the gas was on when we made a trip down to sc for some work.

5/25/2011 10:47:17 PM

^I didn't know that...makes sense.

[Edited on May 25, 2011 at 11:19 PM. Reason : ]

5/25/2011 11:16:46 PM

A coffee cake isn't a cake that tastes like coffee, but a small cake that you eat with your coffee.

5/25/2011 11:41:43 PM

Twinkle twinkle little star
Alphabet song

aaaaaannnnndddddd......

Ba ba black sheep

5/25/2011 11:56:34 PM

^^Had to teach that to my older brother the other day.

5/26/2011 12:50:05 AM

Did you know that the difference between vanilla ice cream and French vanilla ice cream is that French vanilla ice cream is made with breast milk?

5/26/2011 1:15:19 PM

titty butter!

5/26/2011 1:23:53 PM

It's not peaked my interest it is pique my interest

6/1/2011 12:13:40 PM

did not know that

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6/1/2011 2:09:38 PM

I always thought it was peek

6/1/2011 2:10:27 PM

Holy shit somehow i missed the whole james earl jones thing on the first page

I mean the last time i saw the lion king i was like 8 star wars was probably around 13 or so

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

6/1/2011 2:14:10 PM

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"I knew this but had to inform my boss that the little arrow on the gas gauge is pointing to the side of the vehicle that you fill it on. He kept asking me what side the gas was on when we made a trip down to sc for some work."

While often the case, not all automakers do that.

6/1/2011 2:17:01 PM

I don't have anything that I just learned, but i will share a fact that I've noticed a lot of people don't realize:



GI Joe (the cartoon) and Transformers (also the cartoon) had the same music. Not theme songs, but during the course of the show, during scenes and stuff.





also speaking of ba baa black sheep and the alphabet song


got into a massive argument with most recent ex about "What Child is this" being the same melodically as "My Favorite Things" and "Greensleeves"



she did not believe me at all until I played them all in a row and was like "SEE"

[Edited on June 1, 2011 at 2:31 PM. Reason : .]

6/1/2011 2:21:08 PM

There are armadillos in south carolina

6/1/2011 2:22:51 PM

There are no A's between 1 and 999

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6/1/2011 2:24:42 PM

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"There are no A's between 1 and 999"

lies

6/1/2011 2:26:15 PM

Eggplants are berries
OK - Ola Kala
COP - Constable on Patrol

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[Edited on June 1, 2011 at 2:30 PM. Reason : ^oh jk its 1 and 99]

6/1/2011 2:27:33 PM

Until I saw the movie a few years ago, I had no idea that Spinal Tap was a band they made up for This is Spinal Tap. I thought Spinal Tap was a real band and the movie was just a mockumentary that the band made.

In my defense, the first time I heard of Spinal Tap was a Simpsons episode when I was ~10 and they seemed like a real rock band when I watched it.

6/1/2011 2:38:19 PM

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"Commonly known facts "

6/1/2011 2:41:05 PM