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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TeacupsAndToning wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL the Lion's roar from the Metro-Goldwyn logo is actually made from tiger vocalizations, as "lions don't make that kind of ferocious noise and the logo needed to be ferocious and majestic"

    I don't know about now but originally it was a recording of a lion

    Shouldn't you be drawing?
  • JustaJoe00
    JustaJoe00 Posts: 777 Member
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    yes i should be...drawing
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    JustaJoe00 wrote: »
    yes i should be...drawing

    Can you draw?
  • JustaJoe00
    JustaJoe00 Posts: 777 Member
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    only strait lines...well ok and arcs..
  • CaptainFantastic01
    CaptainFantastic01 Posts: 9,558 Member
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    JustaJoe00 wrote: »
    only strait lines...well ok and arcs..

    Dude i need a guy who draws arks
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    JustaJoe00 wrote: »
    only strait lines...well ok and arcs..

    Isn't everything a straight line or an arc? Can you draw dancing food?
  • JustaJoe00
    JustaJoe00 Posts: 777 Member
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    hmm good point...yes i guess everything is...dancing food would be interesting to draw. this is making me realize how much time i've spent drawing parts and pieces of buildings....
  • beagletracks
    beagletracks Posts: 6,034 Member
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    TIL Guinea worm disease, which infected millions just 30 years ago, has been all but eradicated in South Sudan, which once reported the most cases of the parasite.

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/21/health/guinea-worm-south-sudan-carter/index.html
  • orangegato
    orangegato Posts: 6,570 Member
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    TIL this phrase: Shy bairns get nowt
  • orangegato
    orangegato Posts: 6,570 Member
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    TeacupsAndToning wrote: »
    orangegato wrote: »
    TIL this phrase: Shy bairns get nowt

    I'm still unclear on its meaning

    I am putting my trust in this: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shy_bairns_get_nowt
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL Hippos can sleep underwater using a reflex that allows them to bob up, take a breath, and sink back down without waking up.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    TIL a capitonym is a word whose meaning changes when it is capitalized. E.g.

    march / March
    polish / Polish
    china / China
    lent / Lent
    mark / Mark

    Unless you're texting and then I have no idea. :smiley:
  • CaptainFantastic01
    CaptainFantastic01 Posts: 9,558 Member
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    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    TIL a capitonym is a word whose meaning changes when it is capitalized. E.g.

    march / March
    polish / Polish
    china / China
    lent / Lent
    mark / Mark

    This is cool
  • cee134
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    TIL there’s a type of honey called "mad honey," which causes hallucinations. Honey hunters in Nepal make dangerous vertical climbs to harvest it since it sells for $60-80 a pound.

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  • orangegato
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    TIL that someone at work is drinking bulletproof coffee, coffee w/ butter in it. Claiming that it will give energy that lasts through the day. Never heard of this bullshrimp before. SMH
  • empresssue
    empresssue Posts: 2,978 Member
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    TIL that just when I think something is finished, it's really not.
  • orangegato
    orangegato Posts: 6,570 Member
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    laprimaJenny wrote: »
    orangegato wrote: »
    TIL that someone at work is drinking bulletproof coffee, coffee w/ butter in it. Claiming that it will give energy that lasts through the day. Never heard of this bullshrimp before. SMH

    Coffee with butter in it?! Sounds rather disgusting if you ask me.

    Agree :+1: who comes up w/ this *kitten*?
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    laprimaJenny wrote: »
    orangegato wrote: »
    TIL that someone at work is drinking bulletproof coffee, coffee w/ butter in it. Claiming that it will give energy that lasts through the day. Never heard of this bullshrimp before. SMH

    Coffee with butter in it?! Sounds rather disgusting if you ask me.

    It's a thing and works for some people. I don't do it but others do.

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