EVER wondered why on earth there’s a plastic bit at either end of your shoe laces? Well Redditors have, and here’s a random fact to impress your mates in the pub with… it’s actually called an aglet.

Plastic, metal, maybe just some Scotch tape that you found in your coworker's desk -- the little tips at the ends of your shoelaces that helps you thread them through the eyelets in your shoe's upper ...