Today I Learned...

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    edited August 2018
    LMNOP55 wrote: »
    That Toni is a fake.

    Whoever Toni is.

    The tiger?
  • km8907
    km8907 Posts: 3,861 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    LMNOP55 wrote: »
    That Toni is a fake.

    Whoever Toni is.

    The tiger?

    THEY'REEEEEEE ALright I guess.
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  • km8907
    km8907 Posts: 3,861 Member
    LMNOP55 wrote: »
    @km8907 wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    LMNOP55 wrote: »
    That Toni is a fake.

    Whoever Toni is.

    The tiger?

    THEY'REEEEEEE ALright I guess.

    Had them with a side of bacon? Mmmmm good!

    ^thanks noob noob. This guy gets it.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that all ships visiting the ancient city of Alexandria were obliged to surrender their books for immediate copying. The owners received a copy and the originals were placed in the Library of Alexandria.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL a terrier named Igloo traveled to both the North and South Poles in the 1920s as a companion to his human, explorer Admiral Richard Bird. He chased penguins, picked fights with the sled dogs, and had a camel-hair suit made for him to keep him warm. His headstone is shaped like an iceberg.
  • Raquel_Mama
    Raquel_Mama Posts: 1,815 Member
    TIL that the n in 7 ELEVEn isn't capitalized like the rest of the word. Never noticed that before.
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
    Raquel_Mama wrote: »
    TIL that the n in 7 ELEVEn isn't capitalized like the rest of the word. Never noticed that before.

    This made me curious, so now TIL this was because:
    “To the best of our corporate research here at 7-Eleven, it is believed that the wife of the company’s president during the 1960s thought the look of the name in the logo ‘7-ELEVEN’ seemed a little harsh with ALL CAPS, and she suggested that the N be changed to lower case to make the logo look more graceful,”
  • Raquel_Mama
    Raquel_Mama Posts: 1,815 Member
    pudgy1977 wrote: »
    Raquel_Mama wrote: »
    TIL that the n in 7 ELEVEn isn't capitalized like the rest of the word. Never noticed that before.

    This made me curious, so now TIL this was because:
    “To the best of our corporate research here at 7-Eleven, it is believed that the wife of the company’s president during the 1960s thought the look of the name in the logo ‘7-ELEVEN’ seemed a little harsh with ALL CAPS, and she suggested that the N be changed to lower case to make the logo look more graceful,”

    Well, there you go! Thank you :smiley:
  • epr3996
    epr3996 Posts: 2,719 Member
    TIL that @Raquel_Mama is no longer on my friends list I wonder when this happened? I need to be a better friend!
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  • Raquel_Mama
    Raquel_Mama Posts: 1,815 Member
    SnackherBarrell wrote: »
    epr3996 wrote: »
    TIL that @Raquel_Mama is no longer on my friends list I wonder when this happened? I need to be a better friend!

    She's not on mine either...hmmm?

    I don't even know who you are...... lol
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  • Raquel_Mama
    Raquel_Mama Posts: 1,815 Member
    SnackherBarrell wrote: »
    Raquel_Mama wrote: »
    SnackherBarrell wrote: »
    epr3996 wrote: »
    TIL that @Raquel_Mama is no longer on my friends list I wonder when this happened? I need to be a better friend!

    She's not on mine either...hmmm?

    I don't even know who you are...... lol

    Oh...is that a requirement?

    Well no, I didn't know anybody here when I joined. But, it's nice to put a face to a name.
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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    edited August 2018
    7H3_J0K3R wrote: »
    that the saying is, "two wrongs don't make a right". I thought it was, "two frauds can't meet in life".

    Like how someone can pretend to be someone they aren't?

    Edit to add: Not you.
  • R3d_butt3rfly
    R3d_butt3rfly Posts: 1,127 Member
    How to clean a fish from pond to fillets.
  • yukfoo
    yukfoo Posts: 871 Member
    edited August 2018
    George Carlin really knew his *kitten*... "Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.'
  • orangegato
    orangegato Posts: 6,572 Member
    yukfoo wrote: »
    George Carlin really knew his *kitten*... "Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.'

    I thought Mark Twain said this first.
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  • mustacheU2Lift
    mustacheU2Lift Posts: 5,844 Member
    SabAteNine wrote: »
    It's perfectly acceptable to put ice cream in your coffee if you've run out of creamer. Tested and validated.

    Yup...i do this
  • 81Katz
    81Katz Posts: 7,074 Member
    If men with daughters had a 'man' treat their daughter the way they have treated women it wouldn't be so hilarious after all ... Unless you're a narcissist because then they probably wouldn't care about their children either.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that "the" was originally written as "þe" in old english. It was eventually abbreviated to "þͤ". Since "þ" looked similar to "y" in old english blackletter script, they were both mixed up. So, in old english, "Ye olde" was simply pronounced "The olde."
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  • Machafin
    Machafin Posts: 2,988 Member
    TIL that France granted the US permanent, rent-free possession of the American cemetery in Normandy, which contains the remains of 9,387 fallen troops plus a memorial to 1,557 killed there whose remains were either not found or not identified.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_American_Cemetery_and_Memorial
  • Machafin
    Machafin Posts: 2,988 Member
    TIL about the Tucker State Prison Farm scandal, in which inmates were routinely beaten, tortured with needles under their fingernails, and had their genitals crushed with pliers and electrocuted. Up to 200 inmates may have been murdered and buried around the prison.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Murton#Prison_scandal

    Enjoy that one
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