Today I Learned...

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  • MrSith
    MrSith Posts: 1,636 Member
    TIL that Friday, December 15th is National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day, and there is even a website for it. :o
    I will not be participating that is a holiday for @AliNouveau
  • AliNouveau
    AliNouveau Posts: 36,287 Member
    MrSith wrote: »
    TIL that Friday, December 15th is National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day, and there is even a website for it. :o
    I will not be participating that is a holiday for @AliNouveau

    oh yes but my sweaters are all beautiful
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that at around 20 meters (65.6168 feet) underwater gravity overtakes the buoyancy of your body and you start falling towards the center of the earth.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL in 2010 British goat milk farmer reportedly discovered his goats made more milk when Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas is You" was played on loop.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL Some of the films writer/director Rian Johnson looked at for inspiration while developing "Star Wars:The Last Jedi" include “12 O’Clock High” (1949), “To Catch a Thief” (1955) and “Three Outlaw Samurai” (1964).
  • Kellielvsfam
    Kellielvsfam Posts: 31 Member
    TIL.Journaling can really help me to not have that late night snack.I wrote down,how i felt,what i could personally do to change those thoughts and to just let the rest the hell go!!
  • sw33tp3a1
    sw33tp3a1 Posts: 5,065 Member
    Protecting your heart from heartbreak is inevitable.
  • Journey2happiness18
    Journey2happiness18 Posts: 1,033 Member
    sw33tp3a1 wrote: »
    Protecting your heart from heartbreak is inevitable.

    Yeaaaaa.... sucks
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  • Mr_Healthy_Habits
    Mr_Healthy_Habits Posts: 12,588 Member
    happimess1 wrote: »
    TIL.Journaling can really help me to not have that late night snack.I wrote down,how i felt,what i could personally do to change those thoughts and to just let the rest the hell go!!

    i need to try this

    Honestly... It gets easier
    It's just like smoking, you really only do it to quiet the mind, knowing this is half the battle
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
    TIL that my kids have exactly 2.5 batches of cookies worth of time before their patience runs out
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL the bearded vulture feeds almost exclusively on bone. Bones that are too large to eat have to be dropped from the sky and shattered against rock. The process can take years to master and practiced individuals will often use one favored dropping site known as an ossuary.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL That Monster and similar companies make cans of water, so it appears that celebrities are drinking their product while actually just drinking water.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL A 3M adhesive tape plant accidentally created a force field of static electricity that was strong enough to prevent humans from passing through. A person near this "wall" was unable to turn, and so had to walk backwards to retreat from it.
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  • CindyLouWhoinWhoville
    CindyLouWhoinWhoville Posts: 1,217 Member
    Today I learned that Mistletoe has no scent
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL A 3M adhesive tape plant accidentally created a force field of static electricity that was strong enough to prevent humans from passing through. A person near this "wall" was unable to turn, and so had to walk backwards to retreat from it.

    I'm not sure I believe that but I read it yesterday too. And the scotch tape creating x-rays in a vacuum. Cool stuff.

    I'm pretty sure if you read something it makes it true.
  • BoosDimples
    BoosDimples Posts: 2,826 Member
    TIL that Jedi personalities have little influence over the lightsaber colours.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that Jedi personalities have little influence over the lightsaber colours.

    This is mostly true. The Sith may turn their lightsabers red from using the dark side. I am not sure if that's canon now or not. I think they may have talked about it in one of the books or some of the comics.
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
    Lindsey Buckingham wrote the song Go Your Own Way as a message to Stevie Nicks. It describes their breakup, with the most obvious line being, "Packing up, shacking up is all you want to do." Stevie wanted Lindsey to take out the line, but he refused. Poor Stevie had to sing back up vocals on a song about what a piece of crap she was. HEHEH

    Stevie Nicks told Q magazine June 2009: "It was certainly a message within a song. And not a very nice one at that."
  • kesirko
    kesirko Posts: 7 Member
    Today I learned that cling wrap clings to everything except what it's supposed to.
  • BoosDimples
    BoosDimples Posts: 2,826 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL that Jedi personalities have little influence over the lightsaber colours.

    This is mostly true. The Sith may turn their lightsabers red from using the dark side. I am not sure if that's canon now or not. I think they may have talked about it in one of the books or some of the comics.

    I was reading that the Sith used synthetic crystals and that was maybe why they were red?
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL that Jedi personalities have little influence over the lightsaber colours.

    This is mostly true. The Sith may turn their lightsabers red from using the dark side. I am not sure if that's canon now or not. I think they may have talked about it in one of the books or some of the comics.

    I was reading that the Sith used synthetic crystals and that was maybe why they were red?

    They changed that and it's no longer canon.
    In Ahsoka (Star Wars Canon Novel), it is revealed that the Kyber crystals are actually force sensitive. They choose their desired users and present themselves to the Jedi in question. Those who use the Dark Side of the Force, such as the Sith, don't have this unique connection to the crystals. The only way a Sith can get ahold of a Kyber crystal is by stealing them or taking them away from the defeated Jedi.

    The crystal loses its original hue as the Sith, or other Dark Side users of the Force bends the Kyber to their own will. This results in the Kyber crystal 'bleeding', thus turning it red. A crystal that has been tainted by the Dark Side can be healed. But it doesn't return to its normal color, it instead turns white.

    https://movieweb.com/star-wars-why-sith-lightsabers-are-red/

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  • BoosDimples
    BoosDimples Posts: 2,826 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL that Jedi personalities have little influence over the lightsaber colours.

    This is mostly true. The Sith may turn their lightsabers red from using the dark side. I am not sure if that's canon now or not. I think they may have talked about it in one of the books or some of the comics.

    I was reading that the Sith used synthetic crystals and that was maybe why they were red?

    They changed that and it's no longer canon.
    In Ahsoka (Star Wars Canon Novel), it is revealed that the Kyber crystals are actually force sensitive. They choose their desired users and present themselves to the Jedi in question. Those who use the Dark Side of the Force, such as the Sith, don't have this unique connection to the crystals. The only way a Sith can get ahold of a Kyber crystal is by stealing them or taking them away from the defeated Jedi.

    The crystal loses its original hue as the Sith, or other Dark Side users of the Force bends the Kyber to their own will. This results in the Kyber crystal 'bleeding', thus turning it red. A crystal that has been tainted by the Dark Side can be healed. But it doesn't return to its normal color, it instead turns white.

    https://movieweb.com/star-wars-why-sith-lightsabers-are-red/

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    Ah, I see. That makes a more interesting addition to the story than synthetic crystals. Thanks.
  • sw33tp3a1
    sw33tp3a1 Posts: 5,065 Member
    Bae in Danish means poop
  • BoosDimples
    BoosDimples Posts: 2,826 Member
    sw33tp3a1 wrote: »
    Bae in Danish means poop

    You've sooo made my day! :joy:
  • 123liveoak
    123liveoak Posts: 2,239 Member
    Today I learned that elephants think humans are cute the way humans think puppies are cute (the same part of the brain lights up when they see us)

    Really? This would make me smile if this is true!
  • BoosDimples
    BoosDimples Posts: 2,826 Member
    Today I learned that elephants think humans are cute the way humans think puppies are cute (the same part of the brain lights up when they see us)

    This makes my heart smile! I adore elephants! :heart:
  • orangegato
    orangegato Posts: 6,572 Member
    TIL that Club Med's activities and nice gym can't balance out the evil temptation of their buffet meals. *kitten* it. I'm on vacation anyway.