Today I Learned...

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  • Versicolour
    Versicolour Posts: 7,164 Member
    Some things scare me :/

    But you're Australian. You have huntsmen spiders, venomous snakes, male koalas on the prowl.... Okay yeah. That would scare me too (not the spiders, I love those)

    Gotta love Strayla! Hugs for everything else. I'll come kick their butts for you
  • slimgirljo15
    slimgirljo15 Posts: 269,456 Member
    Some things scare me :/

    But you're Australian. You have huntsmen spiders, venomous snakes, male koalas on the prowl.... Okay yeah. That would scare me too (not the spiders, I love those)

    Gotta love Strayla! Hugs for everything else. I'll come kick their butts for you

    Aww thank you :*
  • slimgirljo15
    slimgirljo15 Posts: 269,456 Member
    Sorry Jo, I try not to.

    Lol..nobody that good looking could be scary ;)
  • sw33tp3a1
    sw33tp3a1 Posts: 5,065 Member
    I need to clean out my Keurig
  • sw33tp3a1
    sw33tp3a1 Posts: 5,065 Member
    sw33tp3a1 wrote: »
    I need to clean out my Keurig

    Did you use vinegar?

    Jokes aside. Yes. I did a vinegar wash then I ran a whole cycle of just water. Cleaned it out pretty well.
  • sw33tp3a1
    sw33tp3a1 Posts: 5,065 Member
    sw33tp3a1 wrote: »
    sw33tp3a1 wrote: »
    I need to clean out my Keurig

    Did you use vinegar?

    Jokes aside. Yes. I did a vinegar wash then I ran a whole cycle of just water. Cleaned it out pretty well.

    Wasn't going for a joke about douche coffee. lol. I was just going to say that's what I did and it worked perfectly.

    Haha with you, anything is possible so I was ready lol
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  • Versicolour
    Versicolour Posts: 7,164 Member
    TIL the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth that perpetually grow and a special thin middle finger.

    It is the world's largest nocturnal primate, and is characterized by its unusual method of finding food; it taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood using its forward slanting incisors to create a small hole in which it inserts its narrow middle finger to pull the grubs out.

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    Ag noe noes! Isn't that the most ugly cutie pie you've ever seen!
  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
    They are much cuter on Madagascar! ;)
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL Moscow partied so hard at the announcement of Germany's defeat that the entire city ran out of vodka for the first time in history.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Today I learned the area code for Cape Canaveral in Florida is 321 to mimic the countdown sequence of space craft launches.
  • 81Katz
    81Katz Posts: 7,074 Member
    Today I learned that I should just embrace a diet of strictly cardboard because when I come in contact with YUMMY food I want to (and usually do) eat allllll the food. *hangs head in shame*

    And I'll throw in a confession... I typed this while eating dark chocolate covered cranberries.
  • NewlifeinNW
    NewlifeinNW Posts: 3,866 Member
    Tomorrow is National Pickle Day. I need to go to the store to prepare.
  • Fit_B4_Forty
    Fit_B4_Forty Posts: 950 Member
    I am stronger than I realize
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
    I am stronger than I realize

    I like be this...and yes you are!!!!
  • WanderingRivers
    WanderingRivers Posts: 612 Member
    TIL the average hospital stay for cellulitis is 3-5 days
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    how to parallel park

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  • caco_ethes
    caco_ethes Posts: 11,962 Member
    csbnga wrote: »
    Tomorrow is National Pickle Day. I need to go to the store to prepare.

    FYI @TeacupsAndToning
  • NewlifeinNW
    NewlifeinNW Posts: 3,866 Member
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  • caco_ethes
    caco_ethes Posts: 11,962 Member
    caco_ethes wrote: »
    csbnga wrote: »
    Tomorrow is National Pickle Day. I need to go to the store to prepare.

    FYI @TeacupsAndToning

    Oh my god

    I think this is an occasion worthy of all of us changing our profile pics
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that the presence of water is a crucial factor in destroying or inhibiting the growth of pathogenic microorganisms with isopropyl alcohol.

    Water acts as a catalyst and plays a key role in denaturing the proteins of vegetative cell membranes. 70% IPA (Isopropyl alcohol (2-propanol), also known as isopropanol or IPA)solutions penetrate the cell wall more completely which permeates the entire cell, coagulates all proteins, and therefore the microorganism dies.

    Extra water content slows evaporation, therefore increasing surface contact time and enhancing effectiveness. Isopropyl alcohol concentrations over 91% coagulate proteins instantly. Consequently, a protective layer is created which protects other proteins from further coagulation.

    Solutions > 91% IPA may kill some bacteria, but require longer contact times for disinfection, and enable spores to lie in a dormant state without being killed.

    A 50% isopropyl alcohol solution kills Staphylococcus Aureus in less than 10 seconds, yet a 90% solution with a contact time of over two hours is ineffective.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    caco_ethes wrote: »
    caco_ethes wrote: »
    csbnga wrote: »
    Tomorrow is National Pickle Day. I need to go to the store to prepare.

    FYI @TeacupsAndToning

    Oh my god

    I think this is an occasion worthy of all of us changing our profile pics

    I very much concur

    If you all are trying to trick me again to change my profile to a pickle... It's going to work.
  • TEQWAR
    TEQWAR Posts: 1,616 Member

    I need to find my pickle-in-hand photo for tomorrow

    That's no moon pickle!
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  • Caporegiem
    Caporegiem Posts: 4,297 Member
    Finally a use for this pickle gif I saved forever ago.
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  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
    Today I learned that the eager to be helpful Salesperson in the plumbing department at Lowes hasn't a clue what he's talking about and that I know my shiit and really didn't need his help after all. :grimace:
  • FAAB_too
    FAAB_too Posts: 67 Member
    Not to answer my phone.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    YIL (Yesterday I learned) that today is National Pickle Day. TIL that I'm all in for National Pickle Day.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL the 3 Musketeers bar was originally split into three pieces with three different flavors: vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. When the other flavors became harder to come by during World War II, Mars decided to go all chocolate.