The Best Home Repair Hacks from Your Local Repairman

Clean Showerhead

If you have an old showerhead, it's time to ask when the last time you cleaned it was...a while right? The hack for this is easy. Just fill a plastic bucket with vinegar and soak the appliance in it for a few hours or overnight. Once you wash off the vinegar, it should be good as new!

Potato Screwer

If you've misplaced your screwdriver, don't worry, there's a hack for that! Another option is using the pointed tip of a vegetable peeler. It won't be as quick, that's for sure, but it'll work just the same. Make sure to clean it before using it for veggies again though...

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The More You Know

  • Almost all chickens eaten today come from the winner of the 1948 'Chicken of Tomorrow' Contest whose genetics now dominate poultry farms worldwide.
  • Next time you open a bottle of wine, save the cork! You can use a slice of synthetic cork to brace a wobbly table leg. Just mark the amount of cork needed, slice it off with a utility knife and glue it in place.
  • The world's largest falafel weighed 223 pounds.
  • The smallest unit of measurement in the universe is the Planck length.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.