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  • walterm852
    walterm852 Posts: 409 Member
    There is a disagreement about what color tennis balls are: 52% green, 42% yellow 6% other
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL there is a disagreement about what color people say tennis balls are, with 52% saying green, 42% saying yellow and 6% saying "other".
  • Liftingat58
    Liftingat58 Posts: 508 Member
    TIL There is no free samples of Tequila at the liquor store.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Liftingat58 wrote: »
    TIL There is no free samples of Tequila at the liquor store.

    I disagree. Sometimes there is. But not everyday.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that ~300 million years ago, when trees died, they didn’t rot. It took 60 million years later for bacteria to evolve to be able to decompose wood. Which is where most our coal comes from.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that a man spent 60 hours underwater, in total darkness, after his vessel capsized and sunk to the bottom of the sea. He was discovered alive by divers sent to recover dead bodies.

    Nigerian survives two days at sea, in underwater air pocket
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-22888828
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL an elderly man gained the trust of a Belgian bank by bringing the workers chocolates. He was eventually given VIP access to the bank vault. In 2007, he stole $28 million worth of diamonds and vanished.

    https://people.howstuffworks.com/diamond-thief2.htm
  • tmpecus78
    tmpecus78 Posts: 1,206 Member
    Before The 17th Century, Almost All Cultivated Carrots Were Purple
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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL The original word for 'bear' has been lost. People in middle ages were superstitious and thought saying the animal's name would summon it. They called it 'bear' which means 'the brown one' to avoid saying its actual name.

    http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2041313,00.html
  • RomaineCalm
    RomaineCalm Posts: 3,972 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL that a man spent 60 hours underwater, in total darkness, after his vessel capsized and sunk to the bottom of the sea. He was discovered alive by divers sent to recover dead bodies.

    Nigerian survives two days at sea, in underwater air pocket
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-22888828

    This would be absolutely terrifying.
  • NotSo_LittleRichard
    NotSo_LittleRichard Posts: 1,004 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL The original word for 'bear' has been lost. People in middle ages were superstitious and thought saying the animal's name would summon it. They called it 'bear' which means 'the brown one' to avoid saying its actual name.

    http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2041313,00.html

    Imagine being the diver who go grabbed randomly by what he thought was a boat full of dead people.

    Mr Harrison "actually grabbed the second diver who went past him," Mr Chamberlain said, adding that the diver concerned got quite a fright.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL Ian Fleming was a keen bird watcher. When choosing a name for the hero of Casino Royal he used the name of the author of one of his bird books - James Bond. In 1964, Fleming gave Bond a first edition copy of You Only Live Twice signed, "To the real James Bond, from the thief of his identity".
  • Liftingat58
    Liftingat58 Posts: 508 Member
    TIL that the icebergs melting that makes the water colder does not cause Global cooling!
  • IamMicah
    IamMicah Posts: 133 Member
    walterm852 wrote: »
    There is a disagreement about what color tennis balls are: 52% green, 42% yellow 6% other

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  • RomaineCalm
    RomaineCalm Posts: 3,972 Member
    IamMicah wrote: »
    walterm852 wrote: »
    There is a disagreement about what color tennis balls are: 52% green, 42% yellow 6% other

    07-24-11030.jpg

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL a 96-year-old self-taught conservationist dedicated the last 40 years of his life to saving North American bluebird populations, building and monitoring 350 nest boxes all across southeast Idaho. In part from his conservation efforts, bluebird populations have significantly rebounded.

    https://www.audubon.org/news/meet-96-year-old-man-who-turned-southern-idaho-bluebird-haven
  • Tigg_er
    Tigg_er Posts: 22,001 Member
    Don't leave your truck running in the driveway,, some one will steal it :/
  • RomaineCalm
    RomaineCalm Posts: 3,972 Member
    Tigg_er wrote: »
    Don't leave your truck running in the driveway,, some one will steal it :/

    Oh wow, did this happen to you today??
  • Tigg_er
    Tigg_er Posts: 22,001 Member
    RomaineCalm wrote: »
    Tigg_er wrote: »
    Don't leave your truck running in the driveway,, some one will steal it :/

    Oh wow, did this happen to you today??

    Happened to my Son, Started it went back inside to grab his lunch came out and the guy was leaving with it :/
  • NotSo_LittleRichard
    NotSo_LittleRichard Posts: 1,004 Member
    Tigg_er wrote: »
    RomaineCalm wrote: »
    Tigg_er wrote: »
    Don't leave your truck running in the driveway,, some one will steal it :/

    Oh wow, did this happen to you today??

    Happened to my Son, Started it went back inside to grab his lunch came out and the guy was leaving with it :/

    At least he remembered his lunch. Those are the absolute worst days.
  • Tigg_er
    Tigg_er Posts: 22,001 Member
    NotSo_LittleRichard wrote: »
    Tigg_er wrote: »
    RomaineCalm wrote: »
    Tigg_er wrote: »
    Don't leave your truck running in the driveway,, some one will steal it :/

    Oh wow, did this happen to you today??

    Happened to my Son, Started it went back inside to grab his lunch came out and the guy was leaving with it :/

    At least he remembered his lunch. Those are the absolute worst days.

    Ya but he threw it at the guy as he was leaving so crap --no Truck --No Lunch
  • NotSo_LittleRichard
    NotSo_LittleRichard Posts: 1,004 Member
    Tigg_er wrote: »
    NotSo_LittleRichard wrote: »
    Tigg_er wrote: »
    RomaineCalm wrote: »
    Tigg_er wrote: »
    Don't leave your truck running in the driveway,, some one will steal it :/

    Oh wow, did this happen to you today??

    Happened to my Son, Started it went back inside to grab his lunch came out and the guy was leaving with it :/

    At least he remembered his lunch. Those are the absolute worst days.

    Ya but he threw it at the guy as he was leaving so crap --no Truck --No Lunch

    when it rains it pours
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that Steve Martin's wedding came as a surprise to his guests. The roughly 75 star-studded attendees (including the likes of Tom Hanks, Diane Keaton, Eugene Levy, and Carl Reiner) said that he had invited them to his house just for a "party." To their shock, upon their arrival his wedding began.

    https://people.com/celebrity/steve-martin-gets-married-at-l-a-home/
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that in 1938 early aviator Douglas Corrigan was denied permission to fly from New York to Ireland. Since he was denied he planned to fly to California instead. 28 hours later he arrived in Ireland, telling officials that he must have mistakenly gone the wrong way.
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    TIL that if you hold your fart in it will eventually dissipate into your blood stream and then it will be expelled in your breath.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that before McDonald's switched from cooking its fries in beef tallow to vegetable oil, the fries had more saturated beef fat than their hamburgers.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that the gin and tonic was invented as a result of the British being unable to stomach the taste of bitter malaria medication in India.
  • ElC_76
    ElC_76 Posts: 3,054 Member
    Binge eating leads to bloatedness and irritability
  • JetJaguar
    JetJaguar Posts: 801 Member
    TIL that Joan Jett's "I Love Rock and Roll" was actually a cover of an original by the Arrows:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AT_Pbtyid0

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