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  • JustSomeJD
    JustSomeJD Posts: 416 Member
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    empresssue wrote: »
    TIL what snowballing means in the Urban Dictionary. Thanks @Tenebrous_D :neutral:

    LOL
  • glgcam5150
    glgcam5150 Posts: 3,728 Member
    edited September 2018
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    Today I Learned All The Social Media Giants
    Don’t Let They’re Own Children Use
    What They Created
    And The Zombie Phone
    Apocalypse Is (gasp)Real!!..
    For SomeThanks PJW🤤😁😉👍
    https://youtu.be/9m-nmKNKD1U
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL Jeff Daniels was only paid $50,000 for the movie "Dumb and Dumber". Jim Carrey was paid $7 million.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL King Gillette, who founded Gillette razors, believed that everyone in the US should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered by Niagara Falls.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL Donnie Darko was filmed in 28 days which, coincidentally, virtually matches the time that transpired in the film. The movie took place between October 2nd, 1988 to the weekend party scene before Halloween on October 31st, 1988.
  • epr3996
    epr3996 Posts: 2,719 Member
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    TIL that a dead Toad under a car can really smell up a carport!
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL the movie "The Princess Bride" meant so much to Andre the Giant that he made his wrestling friends watch an advanced copy of the VHS with him over, and over, and over again. He'd supply dinner, drinks and sweetly asking them each time, “What did you think of the movie? Did you like my performance?”

    @DeadliftsAndSprinkles
  • epr3996
    epr3996 Posts: 2,719 Member
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    TIL that walking with a ski pole does not keep the dogs away it only makes them think you are giving them a chew toy!
  • iMago
    iMago Posts: 8,714 Member
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    technically not today, but the coworker/fingernail cutting thread the other day sent me down a rabbit hole of reading online about this-

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  • yukfoo
    yukfoo Posts: 871 Member
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    The pound sterling is the world's oldest currency still in use.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL The code from the Matrix is actually a sushi recipe the production designer, Simon Whiteley, scanned from one of his wife's Japanese cookbooks.
  • anl90
    anl90 Posts: 928 Member
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    TIL my work will be getting us pizza today. YAS QUEEN (Not a healthy choice, I know, but whatever YOLO.)
  • epr3996
    epr3996 Posts: 2,719 Member
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    TIL that when I lose something just ask my wife she is awesome at finding things i've misplaced!
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL "Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner" is a phrase that came from historic vegas, which used to offer a chicken dinner at most casinos. The cost of the chicken dinner was $1.79, which included a potato and veggie. After winning on the standard $2 bet you could treat yourself to a chicken dinner.
  • epr3996
    epr3996 Posts: 2,719 Member
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    TIL that walking and looking at your phone can be dangerous for your health if you don't watch traffic!
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL the movie "Paranormal Activity" had a budget of only $15,000 but made $194 million. During the screening, people were walking out that one studio executive thought the film was bombing. They later learned that the viewers were actually leaving because they were too frightened.
  • glgcam5150
    glgcam5150 Posts: 3,728 Member
    edited October 2018
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    tinkerhellraiser wrote: »
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    If Hypnagogia Is The State
    In Between Awake And Sleep,
    Hmm I’m Wondering
    Would That Make The MFP App
    The Community Within
    That State🤔😆

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