Amazing Secrets Hidden In Everyday Things - Part 9 

some elevator do close when a floor button is pressed thus defeating the need for a working door close button

Most elevators are programmed so the door close button only works when you use a "fire service" key.

Yeah, I am not sure which elevators are ones where the door close button does not do anything, I think this is a big urban myth or those elevators were reprogrammed specifically for that button not to work. The ones in my building, and pretty much every building I have worked in, do close the door quicker than just waiting after a floor button was pushed. Many elevators do not close the doors immediately after pushing a floor button, and I know this might shock people, that is because there might be other people still getting on the elevator after the first person on pushes a floor button. While the doors have a delay, which in my elevator's case is the same after pushing a floor button and not pushing a floor button, the doors close immediately upon pushing the close button. I have yet to be on an elevator where the doors close immediately after a floor button is pushed, or where the doors do not close if a floor button is not pushed.

​@@VOLTRONDEFENDER4440Other than old freight elevators, I've never seen an elevator door that doesn't close itself but like the OP said, it takes 10x longer when i wait for the elevator to do it instead of pushing the close door button.

@@dirtyfrench2926 and some elevators close with a floor button press but yes older schindler door close dosent work but on other brand where it dosent work it will enable when fire service is on

I don't know when you were in the Navy.. But, in my experience in the mid 90s there was powered drink and it wasn't kool-aid. We called it bug juice when when mixed and drank it. We did use the powered form to clean pipes and metal. It could also burn skin if left too long on bare hands. At some point after 2000 they got rid of it. I know my ship in 2011 didn't have it.

The plastic layer on the inside of the can is not to protect the can from the beverage, it is to protect the beverage from the can. All canned drinks have a plastic layer on the inside,this is not to avoid them to corroding the can, but to avoid aluminium to change the taste of the beverage, even wine, beer and canned coffee this almost not acidic (if it is good) has it (canned coffee is very popular in Japan). Coca-cola has phosphoric acid the very same ingredient used in rust removers, but not in a quantity that would corrode the metal (it would take years), although it reacts with rust and it is good to clean chromium coated surfaces as oxides are far more reactive with acids. In Coca-cola site there is a list of myths about Coke: they say there are better products to clean rust, but they don't deny it works. I prefer vinegar small things it takes a little time but it works perfectly (that has about 5% of acetic acid much much more acidic than Coke) and...it is cheaper.

"Bug juice" has been a standard at kids' camps since at least the '50s. Usually cherry Kool-aid.

Coke should go back to glass bottles.

Many fruit juices are just as acidic as coke, you would gotten the same results with a bottle of O.J. There's nothing special about coke.

I heard one of those with a damaged speaker that sounded like a tight fart. Like if someone glued their butt shut, and the air forced itself out through a tiny pinhole sized gap in the cheeks, this real high pitched FRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrttt....

also there is a little button beneath that spins or vibrates to let people who are deaf and blind know when to cross

​@@adamb89 😅 That's hilarious! Great description! 👍🏻

Not only in Australia, same in Germany. In busy roads we also have timed/synchronized traffic lights. When you push the button, you may have to wait for your time slot before the light becomes green. If the button is not pushed, the pedestrian light will stay red in the corresponding time slot, so cars can turn easier (no yellow pedestrian warning light).

That doesn't necessarily mean it influences the time the light stays green/red.

For me here, my elevator's CLOSE button was purposefully turned off as many people spam that button when people enter, leading to injuries.

It depends on the building and what position the key is in

@@TheLastMemenatorOfExistence Wow, that's messed up that people would close the door on someone! I'm not litigious, but if that happened to me, I'd sue them!

@@kentworchYes, that's why I mentioned the location. There aren't many elevators in my town, so I haven't tested it elsewhere (I always forget, when I'm visiting somewhere.)

@@DravenGal It depends on how the elevator is set up, but that button is there for a reason, and there's always a way to make it work. There is also usually a lock cylinder that uses a key that often has 2 or 3 different positions. Not sure how much has changed but the old ones used to stop and run on the key switch. Back in the days before computer modules, everything used to work on relays, limit switches, and floor switches. The floor switches would not only illuminate the light above as you pass each floor, but would also trip the relay corresponding to the button you pressed powering the motor to stop the elevator at the floor you selected. There is a way to bypass the floor switches but it takes more than one button. The door call button actually activated the same relay to send the elevator to that as if you'd pressed that floors button inside the elevator. By holding the door close button and pressing other buttons you could manually operate the elevator and even stop between floors if you need to. This is a function that emergency personnel and elevator mechanical technicians alike use. I'm not sure if that's changed anytime more recently with the computerized controls, but that's how the old ones used to work.

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It's probably a regional thing. There's one intersection near where I live that comes to mind, where the light only changes if traffic stops at the light, or if someone hits the crosswalk button. If the light changes due to traffic, the crosswalk light stays on "Don't Walk" and the light cycles crazy fast, like 5 seconds, just enough to let a couple cars through. If you DO press the pedestrian button though, the light will change for like 30 seconds. Other times I've seen busy intersections where during the day they're on a strict timer and the buttons do nothing, but at night they behave like the intersection I mentioned before. Staying mainly green in one direction, unless someone hits the button.

Only in developed counties, not in the US.

@@merakrut 🤣

In downtown, Walk signs will automatically activate even when the button isn’t pressed.

US is not a developed country?@@merakrut

That's exactly what I thought!

same here

Agreed

I came here to see if anyone else thought this..

It's London. Traffic doesn't move very fast there anyway

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Yea, don't expect real facts on this channel.. most of their videos are BS. They don't care.. they just want the clicks...

Plus plastic is only recyclable a few times before its chemical bonds break down. Metals are infinitely recyclable.

Yo I thought I write too much but jees how are your fingers

Maybe try creating a DIY soap scraper(because I'm a weirdo) using a chopsticks, hot glue gun and plastic spoon? The spoon needs to be trimmed though

You buy one pump bottle and then buy the refill bottles, which are much bigger and cost less per ounce.

I just bought some long, thin spatulas for that reason. I cut off the bottom of my bottle of face lotion and scooped out several ounces of leftover lotion into a small container. I tried it on my toothpaste tube, but when I cut the tube open there was no paste left over.

@@Carolmaizy I usually scrape without cutting the tube open before rolling and clipping it. Lasts a bit longer and there's going to be some when you can't squeeze anymore.

Bread in stores near me have freshness dates on the bags, tags are irrelevant.

Same about tags. I've only seen two colors of tags, white and yellow, but as far as I know, there's no difference between the breads. They also print out the bake date on a tag. And our bread doesn't really live for more than 5 days

awesome, thank you!

Kids could turn the bottles in for change and buy candy.

The loops embedded in the road to detect cars waiting for an advanced turn green light can be set up to detect a bicycle. Decades ago I had a light like that near my home but my 460 lb motorcycle wouldn't set it off. I ended up calling the city traffic control every time the signal didn't work and they reluctantly reset the sensitivity of the loop so it worked. It was a frustrating 6 weeks to get that fixed. Parking my bike in the turn lane and running to hit the cross walk button then running back to my bike wore thin fast!

@@AutoCrete Damn... sounds super inconvenient.

There was a side-street on the south side of Chicago, which would never change the signal, unless one ran out and pushed the cross button.

Yes and you probably believe EVERYTHING in his videos as true - but as I pointed out, that’s not always the case !

They may be entertaining but this video in particular is good example of how much of it if lies

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that's so true though!

true very very true

Like that it’s video titles aren’t click bait like so many others.

@@MattW-vh1ew Be Amazed does clickbait sometimes actually

Damn, you were around then? Your lucky

I wish they'd put it back in so I could get something done

Speed bumps are useless anyway. So what that you drive *a bit* slower? If I wanna run over a pedestrian, I'd still have time to accelerate while on the speed bump or after it.

Plus, once you clear it and realize it's fake I know a lot of people are just going to slam the gas anyways cause they're pissed off lol 😂

Seniors and people with disabilities may take longer to cross the road, so... perhaps, the reason. But most others are able to cross in much less time. And some better jurisdictions have changed laws to allow you to cross as long as you can within the countdown time, rather than forbid starting your crossing once the hand turns on.

In California they turn the walk sign on, without a press, the walk sign does not come on so the sensors for cars can change the lights faster.

In the U.K. it depends on the crossing if it’s pelican (men across the road) some in busy areas flash Amber and the green man flashes which makes the crossing act as a zebra (no lights) wile puffin (men same side of the road) they use sensors to detect if someone’s there, on the crossing, or absent before changing the signal if someone is on the crossing after the man goes red the lights will stay red till they cross, if a button is pressed and no one is detected the sensors will not sense anything and the button press is ignored, once the crossing is clear after the green man went red then the lights will turn green

​@@erichargrove2287that's been my experience as well.

My town's buttons have never really affected the lights. They just let you know when the light changes.

i watched be amazed videos last night for like 7 hours due to the same thing i never ended up getting to sleep

I live here in London for 8 years now and ngl as I’ve realised everyone knows them they’re fake 🤣 for me personally it doesn’t really matter coz even when I’m on bike i just can pass between them, here’s very unlikely that they would make a full width of road, there are some but in higher percentage is the one u see like the fake ones that one on each side and one on the middle with little long humps

Exactly!! I don't know why anyone would think would work

We have some now in my state of Massachusetts in the U.S. I appreciate them when occasionally driving home at 2:00 a. m- green lights all the way home.

That’s actually how it is in the USA too.

Since the USB connector is universally mocked for being hard to determine which side is up, couldn’t they be cast with a ridge on one side or the other? Trying to see the tiny symbol is way insufficient.

We used yo have hard plastic tags on the end the flimsy plastic cover of bread loaves

Well In high traffic crosswalks they are usually timer set and there isn't a button to push while others have only sensors that sense when a pedestrian is nearby. Hope you understand now

@@ghostali8351 ??? I can't understand anything

​@@ghostali8351where in Europe are you from? I'm UK and that's certainly not the case for us. I've never heard of this system you describe but Europe is pretty big 🤷🏻‍♀️😊

​@@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliarsI'm aware of sensors... but where is there none... I can't think of a place.

@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars Yeah I live in Sweden and we have different systems all around the city

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Goes back WAY before Blade Runner. Phillip K Dick published “Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep” in 1968.

@@margaretcain3223 that is what Blade Runner is based on.

As an Uber driver, sometimes I have taken a blind customer to a bank drive-through. The Braille allows them to conduct their business themselves without needing me to get involved in any capacity other than as a driver, so they retain their privacy.

I read that ATMs are standard, and normally have Braille, since the same machines were used for walk-up ATMs.

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They also include a tactile arrow and a vibration plate to indicate both _when_ it's safe/legal¹ to cross, and _in which direction_ the opposite end of the crossing is. 👍 (¹ - Unlike in most common law countries where the pedestrian signal is advisory, German pedestrian signals are obligatory - Meaning it's illegal to cross against a red man.)

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Who are we? I never did that. Because I never knew you could do that. Because I only ever used coke for its intended purpose: to drink.

​@@PikaLink91They're also a poor man's drain-o

Er she? Idk but I hear a male voice behind this

@@lswGD Ik, the he is there.

“She” “his”

@@quinnruss5541 yea his sorry

I wonder if it gets rid of the geen/grey slimey stuff on paths?!

Breathe* Also your cereal shouldn't be flying away if it's soaked in milk. Are you eating dry cereal?

@@African.empress yes i am

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@@freetolook3727 is it meant to be funny?

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