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  • sw33tp3a1
    sw33tp3a1 Posts: 5,065 Member
    You can lose attachment to someone you never thought you would. It doesn't mean you don't care for them, it just means your world doesn't revolve around them anymore and that's a great *kitten* feeling.
  • 123liveoak
    123liveoak Posts: 2,239 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL that olive oil can be used to get tree sap off your hands.

    Wish I woulda known this yesterday :(
  • slimgirljo15
    slimgirljo15 Posts: 269,456 Member
    sw33tp3a1 wrote: »
    You can lose attachment to someone you never thought you would. It doesn't mean you don't care for them, it just means your world doesn't revolve around them anymore and that's a great *kitten* feeling.

    Yesss
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL young eggplants look like eggs, which is where they got their name.

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  • RachelElser
    RachelElser Posts: 1,049 Member
    I can print legal sized paper on my printer!
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,641 Member
    canary_girl wrote: »
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    canary_girl wrote: »
    TIL that a repair guy will charge you $50 to smack the control panel of your washing machine to get it working again.

    If you didn't try that first then you had that coming...

    I guess I haven't fixed appliances enough to know that technique. I don't typically go around smacking broken things. This is my go-to now, though.

    Did you have an NES growing up? I beat the daylights out of mine. Still works.
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,641 Member
    TIL soy sauce isn't good for your phone charger.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL of the concept of Deja Reve. Deja Reve is the same as Deja Vu but instead of feeling that you've experienced an event once before, you instead feel you've dreamed of this event once before.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that there are over 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe and that up until 1924, the common knowledge was that the milky way was itself the whole universe.
  • LittleHearseDriver
    LittleHearseDriver Posts: 2,677 Member
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  • joemac1988
    joemac1988 Posts: 1,021 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL that figs and pistachios aren't always vegan.

    How can a fig or pistachio NOT be vegan?
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    joemac1988 wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL that figs and pistachios aren't always vegan.

    How can a fig or pistachio NOT be vegan?

    There might be bugs in them.
  • joemac1988
    joemac1988 Posts: 1,021 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    joemac1988 wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL that figs and pistachios aren't always vegan.

    How can a fig or pistachio NOT be vegan?

    There might be bugs in them.

    I saw something once that says people swallow spiders in their sleep...vegans should tape their mouth shut to make sure this doesn't happen.
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
    That an average Carrier Pigeon can carry 2.5 oz at a time. That being said, it would take approximately 960 pigeons to carry me
  • ayresome75
    ayresome75 Posts: 415 Member
    pudgy1977 wrote: »
    That an average Carrier Pigeon can carry 2.5 oz at a time. That being said, it would take approximately 960 pigeons to carry me

    Home Alone 2 springs to mind!
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  • manderson27
    manderson27 Posts: 3,510 Member
    TIL That bone china is made from 50% ground up bone. Kind of logical when you think about it.

    Serious question: Do vegans avoid using bone china? If so how do you tell if you are in a cafe/restaraunt?
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that in the 1930's a flute player released his pet lyrebird into the wild, which was able to mimic certain phrases of the man's music. The bird has shared the music with other lyrebirds and the same melodies are still sung by these birds today.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL: Of the Blood Falls, a waterfall in Antarctica made up of primordial bacteria which have been sealed away from the rest of the earth for millions of years.

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  • Mr_Healthy_Habits
    Mr_Healthy_Habits Posts: 12,588 Member
    Til

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    Everyday
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that a Japanese firm will use a drone to force overtime staff to go home.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42275874

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  • sw33tp3a1
    sw33tp3a1 Posts: 5,065 Member
    That Buy with 1 click option from Amazon is a dangerous tool
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL Otis Redding died at just 26 years old, three days after recording "The Dock of the Bay." His plane crashed on the way to a gig in Madison, WI, where a band called the Grim Reapers was set to open for him. That band went on to become Cheap Trick.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL A group of guys made a to scale model of the solar system in Black Rock Desert, Nevada. They felt that pictures online couldn’t capture the size of our solar system and they wanted to give an accurate example.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj4524AAZdE&feature=youtu.be
  • MrSith
    MrSith Posts: 1,636 Member
    I learned too much additional work related stuff lol
  • CindyLouWhoinWhoville
    CindyLouWhoinWhoville Posts: 1,217 Member
    TIL that Friday, December 15th is National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day, and there is even a website for it. :o

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