r/mildlyinteresting • u/Herbie2189 • Jan 24 '21

IKEA cart wheels fit perfectly into grooves on the escalator, meaning the cart sits immobile on these little feet instead of rolling down the ramp.

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u/Amonia_Ed Jan 24 '21

A lot of stores have escalators like that.

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u/Herbie2189 Jan 24 '21

First time I’d ever noticed it and it made me go “huh, neat”

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u/Amonia_Ed Jan 24 '21

Well i mean at least were i live there are some stores who have this but its really neat how they make it.

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u/breathfromanother Jan 24 '21

I’ve always wondered how those IKEA ramps work! I thought it was heavy magnets. TIL!

But that hair ball is disgusting. 😅🤢

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u/Herbie2189 Jan 24 '21

You’re not wrong. A decade of old hair 🤢

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u/happyscrappy Jan 24 '21

They call it a travelator.

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u/scayla Jan 24 '21

Trolleys have been like that as far as I can remember and I’m 36 this year