TIL that unicorn hunting is legal in Michigan and you can get an actual license for it. It originated from a Unicorn Hunters Club in the 70's only to gain publicity, but it grew and came to actual issued licenses for unicorn hunting.
....gonna have to check the DNR site for this, I bet it still requires the base license, but if it's not prohibitively expensive, I'm doin it!
TIL That Christopher Reeve bulked up over 40lb of muscle mass to play Superman with the help of David Prowse. Superman and Darth Vader were gym buddies.
TIL that Saturns’ rings are, cosmically speaking, a very brief event. We are about halfway through their 200 million year lifespan and are very lucky as a species to be alive to witness them. “Some velociraptor with a telescope looking at Saturn would not have seen rings.”
TIL sea urchins are called "sea urchins" because hedgehogs were called called "urchins" until about the 15th century. Therefore, sea urchins are ocean hedgehogs.
TIL Randy Gardner stayed awake for 264 hours, a world record. On the 11th day, when he was asked to subtract seven repeatedly, starting with 100, he stopped at 65. When asked why he had stopped, he replied that he had forgotten what he was doing.
Today I learned just how woefully inaccurate my food weights have been using a very old-fashioned spring scale!! I bought a digital which arrived today and it has a tare/zero button that allows me to zero out container weights. Man!! My diaries have been way off!!! That's gonna change now.
Today I've learned that the mfp forums are still a *kitten* show, albeit funny, after a 2 year break from the app
What is *kitten*?
Seen this and I’ve been termed this but not sure what it means.
Obviously I don’t do much social media.
😁
It's an automatic filter that MFP puts on curse words
Thanks,..these forums are I guess, interesting and good at times but I find them kinda mean sometimes.
Guess that’s why I am one of the few who doesn’t have a Facebook account.
TIL: There were 4 dogs used in the film “Cujo” and they all had to have their tails tied down by fishing wire to make them appear menacing because they were all wagging their tails the entire time.
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I found it too, rofl. I'll wait til I'm home to print mine
CAN'T WAIT TO START (legally) QUESTING
The woo button has finally gone the way of disco music....
Lmao!
What is *kitten*?
Seen this and I’ve been termed this but not sure what it means.
Obviously I don’t do much social media.
😁
Guess that’s why I am one of the few who doesn’t have a Facebook account.