This is Mental Floss on YouTube and I'm wearing

a bathrobe backwards because I've been told by the internet

that it's an excellent substitute for a snuggie.

Survey says: Pass!

Plus it's got this belt, which makes me feel a little bit like a Jedi,

or at least princess Leia.

And that's the first life hack of many that I'm gonna test for you today.

This is a black t-shirt covered in deodorant.

Clearly it is not my size.

The internet tells me I can remove this deodorant with a dryer sheet.

Let's see how that goes.

Yeah, I mean, you know...

a marginal pass?

I'll tell you what will work: a laundry machine.

This is a Coke bottle with the hole cut in it--very common, you know.

And I'm gonna stick this in here.

The internet tells me it's gonna be an amazing amplifier.

(music of subpar quality plays)

Of all the things in human history that have successfully amplified sound,

this Coke bottle amplified it the least.

But, technically, pass!

Why am I even bothering with iPhones in plastic bottles?

We all know that life hacks are all about food.

So let's get to some of those.

Apparently, the best way to eat Cheetos is with chopsticks

because then you don't get orange stuff all over your hands.

Also, you look really cool.

Meredith, thank you for giving me these dummy chopsticks that anyone can use.

You know what?

Pass.

Now I can't finish eating these until after I've posted this video

so I'm going to seal the bag with a pants hanger

that I'm going to use as a chip clip.

(groans in pain)

Pass, although there are very sharp edges.

If you're looking for a healthier snack, I'm going to try to core

this head of lettuce by slamming it on this cutting board.

One, two...

Ow! Oh! Mmm.

Fail and I hurt myself.

Now if you ever find yourself with a cup of apple sauce and no spoon,

it is supposedly very simple to take the foil from the top

and mold it into a mini-spoon.

Do some twisties. Twisty, twisty, twisty.

Turn this into a spoon...

Yup. There we go. Nice little spoon.

And then...oh!

Pass!

Okay, I also have a bag of chocolate chips

because my grocery list is very strange.

Would you believe that some people don't actually pour

this whole thing into their cookie batter?!

Lucky for them, you can just grab one of these water bottle tops

that you always have sitting around and reseal the bag!

You unscrew the top here...

Pass, although all things being equal, I prefer the pants hanger.

Next we have a life hack for people who do not eat

an entire cake in one sitting.

Mark, I thought you said these came from the internet.

If you don't want frosting to stick to the saran wrap,

just use some uncooked spaghetti.

Just stick it in the cake...

and then you cling wrap over it.

I'm so bad at cling wrap!

Dang it!

Oh, this is a disaster.

And you just--awww.

(laughs) Fail!

Just finish the cake!

Man, all these food life hacks are making me thirsty.

I'm gonna open this bottle of beer with an eyelash curler.

Oh! Yeah!

Ahhhh. Pass!

Alright, let's end the "over 21" portion of the program.

Meridith has clearly been cooking with this sticker still on the pot.

I've been told that vodka can remove that sticker.

Alright...get it nice and "vodka-y".

And then remove the sticker.

No. No, fail!

Here's a life hack that actually changed my life.

You know those ketchup holders from fast food restaurants?

Whaaaaaat?! They hold so much more ketchup than you know about!

We're gonna do an extremely scientific survey.

One-one thousand, two-one thousand, three-one thousand,

four-one thousand, five-one thousand.

One-one thousand, two-one thousand, three-one thousand,

four-one thousand, five-one thousand, six-one thousand,

seven-one thousand, eight-one thousand, nine-one thousand...

it goes on and on! It's much better.

While I was out getting those ketchup packets,

I also picked up a drink with a plastic lid so I can test

if the lid will really serve as a coaster.

No, it doesn't. It is not the right shape at all.

Fail. I mean, not that it matters.

As a person who frequently drinks from Arbys cups,

I can tell you that we, as a population,

are not terribly worried about our coffee tables.

And now I'm going to water the plants, which is not something

that I usually do, but whatever. It's a life hack.

If you don't have a watering can, I've been told that you can

just poke holes in a bottle of water and...

Get a watering can. Fail.

Okay, craft time. Meredith drew this on a piece of wax paper

and I should be able to transfer that image

onto this plain white candle to turn it into a Mental Floss work of art

if I apply heat via this hair dryer.

Okay, gonna spin this around...

this is the moment of truth.

Dang it! That is so disappointing! Fail.

Alright, more crafts. I'm gonna combine a cup of salt, a cup of flour,

a cup of water, and this food coloring to make my own paint!

A cup of salt...

a cup of flour...

a cup of water...whoa, whoa, whoa there! Slow down, cowboy.

And a full thing of green food coloring.

Alright, this is the consistency of playdough, not paint.

So I'm going to go ahead and give it a fail.

But I'm also going to try to eat it.

(sniffs)

Not bad. A little salty.

Meredith, can we do some research and find out

if this is how they made Nickelodeon slime?

How do you open a key ring without breaking a nail?

Apparently by prying it open with a staple remover.

It works in the sense that it does pry open the key ring,

but not in the sense that it helps you get the key out...so fail.

And while you're using office supplies to do things completely unrelated

to office work,try getting rid of grape seeds with a paper clip.

I mean, I'm just going to predict "fail".

This is like performing surgery with the world's least sharp knife.

I can technically remove the grape seeds, but actually, you know what?

This isn't half bad. Pass!

If you don't want to waste a paper clip, here's another option.

I have the Cheeto chopstick from earlier and also the Coke with the hole in it,

the world's worst amplifier.

And now I am going to remove grape seeds, come saw.

Fail.

Well hi there, giraffe.

Ever come across a tough jar to open and happen to have

a cut, open tennis ball on hand? Of course you have!

I'm going to try to open this jar with the tennis ball.

Meredith, by the way would like me to point out that cutting

this tennis ball in half was the hardest single thing

she has ever done in her life... and she is a saint and a scholar.

But was it for nothing, Meredith? Or is it, in fact, a life hack?

I mean, that is not a hard jar to open.

I guess...pass?

I'm not really the right guy for this life hack though because of my rippling guns.

Can you store a bagel in an old CD spindle?

What?! Yes!

That is a game changer. Pass!

While we're on the topic of carbohydrates,

everyone hates that disgusting bite of straight up bread

that happens when you're biting into a sandwich.

But rather than throw cheese and meat all around the sandwich willy nilly,

I have been told that there is a way to fill your entire bread with cheese.

You cut two pieces of circular cheese in half and then you go...what?!

Are you serious? Yessss! It's go--

It did work! Pass!

I just upped my grilled cheese game big time.

But if you're more of a pizza person and, let's face it,

if you love freedom, you are. But if you don't have a pizza cutter,

you can always just use your kitchen scissors.

I don't understand why the internet thinks this is a life hack

when I started doing it when I was four.

But, anyway, pass.

And why use a knife to even out measurements of things like cocoa

when you can just use a contraption made of masking tape?

Pass!

I have here a pre-popped bag of popcorn and, as we all know,

the worst part of eating microwave popcorn from the bag is when your hand rubs up against

the fake butter stuff and you feel the shame

when you realize what you're actually eating.

The internet has solved this problem.

You just put the bag on its side, you cut a hole out of the top...

Mmm! Delicious popcorn, no weird butter feeling. Pass!

Now we're moving to the kitchen for some life hacks.

So before we started shooting, Mark put this envelope in the freezer

and, apparently, I can now open it with this letter opener...

Okay, kind of! And then I can go in and explore the--

It's pretty frozen.

The idea is that you can reseal it and no one will ever know

that you opened the envelope, which is just fail.

I don't know if this is really a life hack, but if you open

both sides of a 12 pack of soda, you can just--

And then all your sodas in the fridge already!

So I guess that's a soft pass.

If you're down to the end of your Cheerios,

but you don't want to get all those gross little crumb things in it,

you can just sift the Cheerios...

And you're left with pure cereal! Pass!

We've already seen how useful pants hangers can be,

but did you know they can also improve your cook booking?

You put the clip right here...

hang the hanger up right there...

and I'm cookin' and I'm lookin'. Pass!

Thanks for watching Mental Floss here on YouTube,

which is made with the help of all these nice people.

Every week we endeavor to answer one of your mind-blowing questions.

This week's question comes Liz Campbell.

Hi, Liz! I hope you don't mind if I try to open this blister pack

with a can opener while I answer your question.

The question is: Where the heck does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg?

This, by the way, is a fail.

Everyone knows that you can't open a blister pack ever, no matter what.

But right to your question. It doesn't say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg.

The origin of the nursery rhyme is unclear, but many believe

it began as a riddle, with the answer being an egg.

That's why Humpty Dumpty is often pictured as an egg.

Thanks for watching.

Don't trust everything you see on the internet,

but do use your pants hangers to clip your chips.

And as we say in my hometown, don't forget to be awesome.

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