Today I Learned...

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  • elizarizo
    elizarizo Posts: 470 Member
    That it is what it is
  • bjdw_1977
    bjdw_1977 Posts: 442 Member
    If you go that far out, you have to come that far back. (I seem to have to re-learn this every summer when I dust the kayak off.)
  • dwrightlaw
    dwrightlaw Posts: 804 Member
    TIL I deserve better
  • Iscah13
    Iscah13 Posts: 1,954 Member
    Geese poop up to a pound a day. I think.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL German chocolate cake was made by an american whose last name was "German".

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that in 2007 workers in Antarctica discovered several perfectly preserved crates of Scotch Whiskey left behind by Ernest Shackleton in 1909.

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL about Baltimore's Mr. Trash Wheel, a waterway trash inceptor that removed approx. 200,000 bottles, 173,000 potato chip bags, and 6.7 million cigarette butts from the inner harbor in just 18 months of initial operation.

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  • ckozl81
    ckozl81 Posts: 59 Member
    The respiratory tract produces more than a liter (33.8 fluid ounces) of mucus a day.
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
    That some people are outraged at the thought of pumping their own gas.
  • Iscah13
    Iscah13 Posts: 1,954 Member
    TIL the free perfume samples from magazines aren’t cutting it anymore
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL There's a place in the Pacific Ocean called Point Nemo. It s so far from land, the nearest humans are often astronauts. The ISS orbits the Earth at a maximum of 258 miles (416km). Meanwhile the nearest inhabited landmass to Point Nemo is over 1,670 miles (2,700km) away.

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  • LiftingRiot
    LiftingRiot Posts: 6,946 Member
    To not drink coffee before going to bed. If you can sleep, its a weird sleep.
  • MrSith
    MrSith Posts: 1,636 Member
    some things never change.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL no one really knew who designed the "solo jazz cup" blue and purple design that had become famous on the internet until an AMA request for the designer led to an investigative reporter in Springfield, MO discovering it was created by Gina Ekiss in 1989 as part of a design contest by the company.

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  • eccomi_qui
    eccomi_qui Posts: 1,831 Member
    The Swiss Air Force doesn’t work on nights or weekends. In 2014, a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines flight headed to Switzerland was intercepted by French / Italian fighter jets as a result.
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  • LiftingRiot
    LiftingRiot Posts: 6,946 Member
    That I need to find a kennel for Jessica Jones while I go on my trip this weekend.
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  • LiftingRiot
    LiftingRiot Posts: 6,946 Member
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    LiftingRiot wrote: »
    That I need to find a kennel for Jessica Jones while I go on my trip this weekend.

    Hey welcome back :smile:

    I only use the woo button. You have been woo'd
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  • beagletracks
    beagletracks Posts: 6,034 Member
    The academic literature on obesity frequently bifurcates into two poles: a realist pole that treats obesity as a biomedical fact, a health risk and an 'epidemic', and a second, constructionist pole that adopts a critical view of obesity as a moral panic driven by political interests and cultural values. Drawing on a wide range of literature from epidemiology, medical sociology, public health, political economy, cultural studies and popular journalism, this article maps out a realist-constructionist divide within academia and the public sphere, and examines the insights and limitations of these perspectives. After mapping the main 'silos' within obesity studies, we examine two key questions: (1) is the obesity epidemic based on medical fact or political interest, and (2) is obesity a disease or a social identity. Drawing from the metatheoretical principles of critical realism, we argue that obesity scholarship can be advanced by conceptualizing the obesity epidemic as a 'hybrid' construction that arises out of the interaction of biophysical, socio-economic and cultural forces. This analysis demonstrates the useful role of social theory integrating diverse analytic perspectives, and bringing clarity to a heated public debate that characteristically points the finger of blame at obese individuals.

    Patterson, M., & Johnston, J. (2012). Theorizing the obesity epidemic: Health crisis, moral panic and emerging hybrids. Social Theory & Health, 10(3), 265-291. doi:http://dx.doi.org.unr.idm.oclc.org/10.1057/sth.2012.4

  • Iscah13
    Iscah13 Posts: 1,954 Member
    One can ingest 128 packages of cocaine.
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    Iscah13 wrote: »
    One can ingest 128 packages of cocaine.

    I read that as "I can ingest".

    I was like woah girl, slow your roll!!!
  • WorkerDrone83
    WorkerDrone83 Posts: 3,195 Member
    Sexual innuendo is not allowed on MFP. Mind blown.
  • WorkerDrone83
    WorkerDrone83 Posts: 3,195 Member
    Clever_User_Name wrote: »
    WorkerDrone83 wrote: »
    Sexual innuendo is not allowed on MFP. Mind blown.

    I missed the whole thread. Anything worth reading?

    Meh. Pretty much the same 'ol. The OP did call people out for hijacking her thread, so that was unusual.
  • Deadman_Diggingup
    Deadman_Diggingup Posts: 3,082 Member
    Clever_User_Name wrote: »
    WorkerDrone83 wrote: »
    Sexual innuendo is not allowed on MFP. Mind blown.

    I missed the whole thread. Anything worth reading?

    From what I saw, except for one Neanderthal, it was a clean and mature thread about maintaining a healthy sex life through relationships.... I don't see why it was ended.
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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL That Snoopy is NASA's official safety mascot. Every astronaut since 1968 has worn a silver Snoopy pin into space; upon return, the astronauts present the pin as a special recognition to a civilian team member who helped keep them safe.

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL, the unconfirmed record for fastest moving manmade object is a manhole cover propelled by a nuclear detonation. A high-speed camera trained on the lid caught only one frame of it moving upward before it vanished—which means it was moving about 125,000 miles per hour.
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