Our world is filled with tons of items that will help out in certain situations. Take a drive down the street, and you will find plenty of signs with symbols that help guide you as well as other symbols that secretly guide us through life, but are you really paying attention to all of them? You will not believe some of these symbols that we found that you probably never noticed before.
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#1
Baskin Robbins hides the number of flavors that they serve in the pink writing on their logo.
#2
Victor David Brenner is the designer of the portrait of Lincoln on the penny. Every penny made after 1918 has his initials carved into the bottom of the bust.
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#3
The Toblerone Chocolate logo hides two things. There is a hidden bear and it has the name of the town where this chocolate is made, Berne, in the name as well.
#4
The Stardust sign is designed to look like a mushroom cloud which was a normal site to see in the Nevada desert back in the 1950s.
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#5
Here you can see a photo of one of the mushroom clouds due to atomic bomb blasts. The times of the detonations were broadcasted so people visiting Vegas on vacation could see the site as well.
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#6
Here is a fun factoid that I bet you never knew.... The seven spikes on the top of Lady Liberty actually represent each of the seven continents.
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#7
Have you ever noticed that little arrow on the gas gauge? It is letting you know what side your gas tank is on. This is especially handy when you are driving a new or someone one else's car.
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#8
This symbol, known as the ichthys, is most commonly associated with Christianity. Little do most people know, the symbol is rooted in pagan culture to symbolize fertility.
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#9
The red in a barber pole actually represents blood.
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#10
Back in the day, barbers would perform bloodletting and other medical procedures.
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#11
The tag on your bread is not just to tell you when your bread officially expires.
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#12
The different colors tell you what day of the week your bread was shipped. And the bread that has twist ties instead of plastic ties are also color coded the same way.
#13
Believe this one or not, but the arches in the McDonalds symbol are actually supposed to represent breasts as a subliminal message to bring in customers.
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#14
The two lines in the pause symbol is called a caesura, which indicates a pause in written music.
#15
The USB symbol can be super confusing. It represents a trident, but uses the circle, triangle, and square as representations of the different types of connections that can be made with it.
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#16
Have you ever noticed the hidden Hershey Kiss sitting between the K and the I in the word Kisses?
#17
This one is pretty neat. You can actually see the silhouette of Australia in her yoga pose.
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#18
That little diamond mark on your tape measurer is to allow someone in construction to evenly split an eight foot piece of material into five equal sections for trusses.
#19
The roman numerals represent the accuracy of the tape measure... the lower the number, the more accurate the measure is.
