▲Instead of saying "the day after tomorrow," impress your friends next time by saying overmorrow.

▲That little plastic bit at the end of a shoelace is known as the aglet.

▲The unofficial trails you see in a field or forest made by constant animal or human traffic are called desire paths.

▲That little metal bit at the top of a pencil just before the eraser is called the ferrule. More generally speaking, a ferrule is a metal band used to strengthen and reinforce something else.

▲Those pieces of wood or metal crossing through the window glass are called muntins.

▲The pound sign, or hashtag, actually has an official name: octothorpe.

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Aptly named the keeper is the extra strap that you tuck the end of the belt through after it has passed through the buckle.

▲While commonly referred to as a zipper, the zipper is actually the entire fastening device, while the pull tab is the little piece that you hold onto while sliding the slider head up or down.

▲The very edges of a pizza crust is known as the cornicione.

▲That song that gets stuck in your head and repeats over and over is an earworm.

▲The mixture of soil, plant oils, bacteria, and ozone that you smell after it rains is called petrichor.

▲The small, painful white bumps that appear underneath the tongue are called lie bumps and are caused by transient lingual papillitis (TLP), or the splitting of a taste bud.

▲The little wheel between the right and left mouse button that you use to scroll up and down web pages is unsurprisingly called the scroll wheel.

▲The infinity symbol actually has an official name: lemniscate.

▲The extra skin hanging off a turkey's neck is known as the snood.

▲A newborn baby's first cry has a name: vagitus.

▲The annoying strings on the side of a banana when you peel it is plant tissue known as phloem. The phloem transports organic compounds from the leaves to the rest of the plant.

▲Each little prong on a fork is called a tine.

▲The silent letters in a word are called aphthongs. Think pterodactyl or phlegm.

▲If you're someone who hits the snooze button several times before dragging yourself out of bed, you might suffer from dysania, or the state of finding it difficult to get up in the morning.

▲If you hear "excuse me while I kiss this guy" instead of "excuse me while I kiss the sky" in Jimi Hendrix's 'Purple Haze,' your misheard song lyric is called a mondegreen.

▲The nozzle attachment that comes with your blow dryer is called an air concentrator.

▲When you extend your thumb and forefinger, the distance between them is known as the purlicue.

▲The tiny plastic tripod in the middle of your delivery pizza is called a box tent (also called a pizza saver, table tent, or package saver) and prevents the top of the box from collapsing in on the pizza.

▲When you take seven shots of tequila at the bar and end up throwing it all up in the bathroom, you are experiencing crapulence, or the sick feeling from eating or drinking too much.

▲The gender-neutral term for a niece or nephew is nibling. Imagine the reactions you'll get when you tell people that your sibling is expecting a baby and you have a little nibling on the way!

▲The crusty bits in the corners of your eyes when you wake up in the morning have an equally gross-sounding name: gound.

▲This word is not only a synonym for the word "kick," it is also the name of the concave indentation at the bottom of a wine bottle.

▲The sun rays you see streaming through the clouds are called crepuscular rays.

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The blob of toothpaste you put on your toothbrush is called a nurdle.

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Sometimes we refer to individual parts of an object as just the object itself or use a phrase to describe something that actually has a proper name. Be prepared to have your mind blown by all of the things you never knew had names in the following gallery!

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That foamy layer on top of beer is known as the barm.