10 Things You Never Realized You Don’t See

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[andrewhoman]

“My hotel doesn't have a 13th Floor because of superstition, but c'mon man... People on the 14th floor, you know what floor you're really on.” -Mitch Hedberg

[jackNimoy]

You’re partially correct about hotel toothpaste and I say this because as a regular traveler per my employment I frequent many American hotels and one occasion on particular I forgot my toothbrush and toothpaste. I went down to the lobby and not only did the concierge have travel size supplies but she gave them to me at no charge. That’s one of the benefits of staying at a nice hotel

[fintux]

In many parts of Europe, you actually don't have those tiny soap bars in hotels, because they have liquid soap dispensers instead. That reduces the waste, but also requires less frequent replacing and people can't (at least that easily) get the soap with them. But if you forget your toothpaste, many hotels will provide you with that if you just ask for it in the reception.

[Bacopa]

Part of the reason LBJ pushed the Chicken Tax is that he wanted the UAW president to back pending civil rights legislation at a union conference. Also, there are Japanese branded pickups doing well in the US, but they are all built in the US.

Daimler-Benz recently got in trouble for importing passenger vans from Turkish plants to the US, and then reconfiguring them into cargo vans in their US facilities in the US. Cargo vans pay the tax!

[DayRider]

The light duty truck tax was interesting to hear I might have forgotten that at some point. Harley did the same thing. In the 80's, they had a 650cc tax so people would only be able to buy Harley for a large displacement bike.

[anothersquid]

I work with a hyacinth macaw, and his treats are macadamias in the shell. It is pretty scary to see him snap the shells like they're cheap plastic.

[storkbomb]

As cool as it would be, the Disney trash tubes _do not_ connect to directly each bin. Rather, the system has 13 collection points throughout the Magic Kingdom, all of which lead to the central compactor located beneath Splash Mountain. This means that, yes, cast members _do_ need to empty the trash cans periodically. In all likelihood, they grab the bag and disappear backstage before anyone is the wiser. Fun Fact: each day certain cast members are assigned special garbage phones. When a trash can needs emptying (no idea how they track that), the closest phone to its location gets a notification and that member has to go take care of it.

[Rekuzan]

When it comes to hotels and toothpaste, they don't provide it themselves, but usually have some abandoned in their lost and found. People leave all KINDS of stuff behind when checking out, and all you need do is ask the front desk or Concierge.

[Coffin-shaker]

My college dorm had a 13th floor (labeled) that I stayed in. Not superstitious but there would be black sludge coming up through the pipes and scratching from inside the walls. Most likely due to terrible plumbing and small animals inside the elevator shaft behind the wall. Still, could be evil ghost aliens I suppose.

[TerenceClark]

Those squirrels are mind blowing. We've got quite a few of them here in Wisconsin, but I've literally never seen one in the wild and didn't even know they lived here until I was in my 30's and my aerial artist ex wife saw one in a tree she was rigging.

[ephvvonlyway]

You may not get a tube of toothpaste in a hotel, but I once forgot to pack a deodorant and asked a hotel desk clerk (Toronto Canada) where I could buy one. She gave me a trial size one from behind the counter. She also told me that they have toothbrushes impregnated with toothpaste if I needed one.

[TerenceClark]

One of my favorites are unmarked buildings. In my city all of the water wells that feed the city are tucked away in buildings that look pretty much like they belong there. But on closer examination they are lacking in signage indicating what they are.

There's another building here, as well, that has a footprint about the same as a high school gym, but it's so well placed I lived within blocks of it for 6 years before I noticed it was even there. It just sort of looks like a continuation of another building from the street, but it isn't. When I did finally notice it I went up to one of the doors there was a camera, a fingerprint scanner, and a sign that said no tresspassing. There's no windows, no signage, and the small, barely noticeable parking lot only ever has white, unlabeled work trucks/vans in it if anything. I don't think there's anything nefarious going on there, and I don't think it's a water utility building, but it's super weird.

[JohnDrummondPhoto]

I've never seen a baby pigeon, but I hear them constantly. The pigeons nest in places like inside storefront awnings, and they breed almost year-round. If you walk past a bodega and hear a "squee, squee, squee" sound from somewhere just overhead, it's baby pigeons in their awning compartment nest, begging for food.

[julianaylor]

I did see some baby pigeons once, their heads popped up, because they were in a nest that was on a ledge above a shop. They were ugly little fluffy things. The term for baby pigeons is squabs. 😁

[dernvader]

I had fresh Macadamia's right off the tree (ground) in Laguna Beach - We had to use a large wrench to open them, and it took finesse otherwise you would shatter the nut and shell if you used too much pressure. The nuts are totally different when fresh, the nuts are soft and taste like butter... they aren't hard like the bought ones...

[christianmiller]

Moving to minnesota from Oregon, seeing sugar gliders for the first time was very cool. My friends there thought of them just as squirrels

[KjV]

I've seen baby pigeons once. Where a page pigeon thought it had built its nest high up on a building, but in fact it had just nested over an entrance doorway to the 3rd floor. The baby pigeons looked exactly like tiny contemporary depictions of veloceraptors!

[lr]

The Disney trash works like that... sort of. The trash cans aren't themselves hooked up to the tube system! They are emptied and the trash bags brought to a backstage area where they are THEN put into the tubes. The implication that a tube just opens beneath a trash can is inaccurate. Can confirm the tube system though.

[julianaylor]

The vacuum tube process used by Disney's bins are similar, to those that used to be used in shops to transport money and documents around large offices and shops. The same sort of system is still used in some buildings. I was in a hospital last year, where samples were sent to the onsite lab, by that means.

[jtshark]

25 years of hotels in the UK, Hilton, Holiday Inn, Marriott and a few others have toothpaste and tooth brushes as part of their brand standard. Mystery shoppers always ask for them