Today I Learned: Fun Facts That Will Surprise Even the Smartest People

Everyone has had that moment where the water in the pot is boiling and you have no idea how much spaghetti you need to add to make just one serving of pasta. This may cause so much anxiety that you end up just dumping in the entire box instead of worrying you won’t make enough!

As it turns out, that weird hole in the spaghetti serving spoon actually has a purpose. Shocking, right? It’s there so you can measure one serving of pasta. Pretty nifty. And now you will have no need to cook the entire box of pasta when it is just you eating… or wait, maybe that’s a bad thing…