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Am I the Genius?

What Little Trick to Make Life Easier Can You NOT BELIEVE Actually Worked?

Am I the Genius?

amithejerk.com

Education, Self-improvement

4.6766 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0

What little trick to make life easier can you not believe actually worked.

0:06.4

Tapping a stuck jar lid with the blunt side of a butter knife all around the edges

0:10.8

loosens it enough to open it most of the time. I had really bad vertigo when I rolled over

0:17.1

for like a month out of nowhere. I'd roll over and it felt like I was still rolling for a

0:21.7

good 20 seconds. I eventually looked up some YouTube video on it. I didn't expect much, but one video

0:27.5

told me to lie on my back on the bed and lean my head off the bed as far as it could go back,

0:32.9

then hold for 10 seconds, then move my head up to even level for 10 seconds, and finally bring my head up

0:38.7

so that my chin is pushed into my neck, all while laying on my back still.

0:42.6

Hold it for 10 seconds each time.

0:44.8

I felt really sick afterwards for like 30 minutes, but after that, my vertigo was completely

0:50.1

cured.

0:51.9

If you are having trouble passing gas, get down on all fours. Start with knees and hands,

0:57.3

and then knees and elbows. I learned it from a dating survival handbook from the early 2000s,

1:02.3

and it saved me the first time I had White Castle on a business trip. Someone posted on the internet

1:08.3

a long time ago that in some older cars, turning your key in the lock on the door and holding it in the unlocked part for three seconds,

1:14.6

will unlock all the doors in the car.

1:17.6

This trick works on my car, and since my key dongle doesn't work, it's changed my life.

1:22.6

Contact solution works wonders on bloodstains.

1:26.6

Kind of niche, but I work as a production tech.

1:30.3

One of the companies I work with has a few HOG lighting consoles. These consoles sometimes don't

1:35.9

want to boot up, and when I found myself in that situation, my co-worker said, pick it up about

1:40.7

six to ten inches and just drop it. I looked at him like he was crazy because

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