Today I Learned...

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  • TheMrWobbly
    TheMrWobbly Posts: 2,541 Member
    TIL that Saint Olga, before converting to christianity, in revenge for the murder of her husband by the Drevlyans, had all of their ambassadors buried alive, killed thousands at a feast in her honour, and then burned any cities that had not paid taxes to the ground using birds she had claimed as a tax from each house to carry sulphur rags back to their homes. So that's what you need to do get your halo?
  • epr31295
    epr31295 Posts: 6,213 Member
    TIL that I have a bad memory as one of my friends was coming over for coffee before work and I went to the gym and forget she was coming over so she sent me a pic of her sitting with my wife having coffee and that said you forget something today?
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that unicorn hunting is legal in Michigan and you can get an actual license for it. It originated from a Unicorn Hunters Club in the 70's only to gain publicity, but it grew and came to actual issued licenses for unicorn hunting.
  • Reckoner68
    Reckoner68 Posts: 2,139 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL that unicorn hunting is legal in Michigan and you can get an actual license for it. It originated from a Unicorn Hunters Club in the 70's only to gain publicity, but it grew and came to actual issued licenses for unicorn hunting.

    ....gonna have to check the DNR site for this, I bet it still requires the base license, but if it's not prohibitively expensive, I'm doin it!
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Reckoner68 wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL that unicorn hunting is legal in Michigan and you can get an actual license for it. It originated from a Unicorn Hunters Club in the 70's only to gain publicity, but it grew and came to actual issued licenses for unicorn hunting.

    ....gonna have to check the DNR site for this, I bet it still requires the base license, but if it's not prohibitively expensive, I'm doin it!

    It appears to be free!

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    https://www.lssu.edu/banished-words-list/unicorn-hunters/
  • Reckoner68
    Reckoner68 Posts: 2,139 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    Reckoner68 wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL that unicorn hunting is legal in Michigan and you can get an actual license for it. It originated from a Unicorn Hunters Club in the 70's only to gain publicity, but it grew and came to actual issued licenses for unicorn hunting.

    ....gonna have to check the DNR site for this, I bet it still requires the base license, but if it's not prohibitively expensive, I'm doin it!

    It appears to be free!

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    https://www.lssu.edu/banished-words-list/unicorn-hunters/

    I found it too, rofl. I'll wait til I'm home to print mine :D

    CAN'T WAIT TO START (legally) QUESTING
  • yukfoo
    yukfoo Posts: 871 Member
    edited August 2019
    TIL
    The woo button has finally gone the way of disco music.... :D
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL That Christopher Reeve bulked up over 40lb of muscle mass to play Superman with the help of David Prowse. Superman and Darth Vader were gym buddies.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that Saturns’ rings are, cosmically speaking, a very brief event. We are about halfway through their 200 million year lifespan and are very lucky as a species to be alive to witness them. “Some velociraptor with a telescope looking at Saturn would not have seen rings.”
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL sea urchins are called "sea urchins" because hedgehogs were called called "urchins" until about the 15th century. Therefore, sea urchins are ocean hedgehogs.
  • LyndaBSS
    LyndaBSS Posts: 6,964 Member
    That phlebotomists prefer to draw blood from a particular arm depending on whether they are right handed or left handed. 😷
  • yukfoo
    yukfoo Posts: 871 Member
    edited September 2019
    Light speed is pretty fast. A particle of light can travel around the earth 10 times in 1 second...
  • ArmyVeteranM1A1C
    ArmyVeteranM1A1C Posts: 1,045 Member
    Tennessee drivers will get off the interstate on a right exit ramp from the far left 3rd lane at 70 mph
  • corinasue1143
    corinasue1143 Posts: 7,464 Member
    Tennessee drivers will get off the interstate on a right exit ramp from the far left 3rd lane at 70 mph

    Lmao!
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL Randy Gardner stayed awake for 264 hours, a world record. On the 11th day, when he was asked to subtract seven repeatedly, starting with 100, he stopped at 65. When asked why he had stopped, he replied that he had forgotten what he was doing.
  • RunDesprate
    RunDesprate Posts: 63 Member
    That my favorite sticker company is apparently making my favorite food. p1rbw2hpnzba.jpeg
  • Crazygraciegirl_
    Crazygraciegirl_ Posts: 73 Member
    TIL I can sleep from 7pm-9am and still be tired!
  • weatherwoman94
    weatherwoman94 Posts: 14 Member
    edited September 2019
    Diet Coke with lemon juice smells like a fart (or eggs) while you're drinking it
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL Switzerland has no landfills. 50% of the municipal waste is recycled, 50% is incinerated to produce electricity.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL: In 2014, former MIT employee Ethan Zuckerman apologized for inventing the first popup ad in 1997.
  • robbell678
    robbell678 Posts: 140 Member
    Today I've learned that the mfp forums are still a *kitten* show, albeit funny, after a 2 year break from the app

    What is *kitten*?
    Seen this and I’ve been termed this but not sure what it means.
    Obviously I don’t do much social media.
    😁
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  • robbell678
    robbell678 Posts: 140 Member
    robbell678 wrote: »
    Today I've learned that the mfp forums are still a *kitten* show, albeit funny, after a 2 year break from the app

    What is *kitten*?
    Seen this and I’ve been termed this but not sure what it means.
    Obviously I don’t do much social media.
    😁

    It's an automatic filter that MFP puts on curse words
    Thanks,..these forums are I guess, interesting and good at times but I find them kinda mean sometimes.
    Guess that’s why I am one of the few who doesn’t have a Facebook account.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL: There were 4 dogs used in the film “Cujo” and they all had to have their tails tied down by fishing wire to make them appear menacing because they were all wagging their tails the entire time.
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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that the Inland Taipan or "fierce snake" is the most venomous snake in the world. However, because of its shy and timid nature there has never been a recorded death caused by its bite. The word "fierce" describes its venom, not its temperament.

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  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL: There were 4 dogs used in the film “Cujo” and they all had to have their tails tied down by fishing wire to make them appear menacing because they were all wagging their tails the entire time.

    aww
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL: The main person behind Wendy's famous twitter roasts is a woman named Amy Brown.