Today I Learned...

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  • LittleLionHeart1
    LittleLionHeart1 Posts: 3,655 Member
    https://youtu.be/DSVFz06rPAs
  • LittleLionHeart1
    LittleLionHeart1 Posts: 3,655 Member
    https://youtu.be/mXHSz-1pkCM
  • LittleLionHeart1
    LittleLionHeart1 Posts: 3,655 Member
    https://youtu.be/KFbs8s3VI6M
  • WorkerDrone83
    WorkerDrone83 Posts: 3,195 Member
    TIL everyone seems to know a whole lot more about rhubarb than me. I'm starting to doubt my conservative Utah public education. Apparently they skipped Sex Education AND Rhubarb Science.
  • Presleykay22
    Presleykay22 Posts: 2,446 Member
    Well yesterday I learned that America was not discovered by Christopher Columbus my mind was blown sounds really stupid but that was what I was taught
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that Nicholas Alkemade jumped from his burning plane at 6km (4 miles) without a parachute. He got a sprained leg.

    On the night of 24 March 1944, 21-year-old Alkemade was one of seven crew members in Avro Lancaster B Mk. II, DS664,[1] of No. 115 Squadron RAF. Returning from a 300 bomber raid on Berlin, east of Schmallenberg, DS664 was attacked by a German Ju 88 night-fighter, [Note 1] caught fire and began to spiral out of control. Because his parachute was unserviceable, Alkemade jumped from the aircraft without one, preferring to die by impact rather than burn to death. He fell 18,000 feet (5,500 m) to the ground below.

    His fall was broken by pine trees and a soft snow cover on the ground. He was able to move his arms and legs and suffered only a sprained leg. The Lancaster crashed in flames, killing pilot Jack Newman and three other members of the crew. They are buried in the CWGC's Hanover War Cemetery.

    Alkemade was subsequently captured and interviewed by the Gestapo, who were initially suspicious of his claim to have fallen without a parachute until the wreckage of the aircraft was examined. (Reportedly, the Germans gave Alkemade a certificate testifying to the fact.)[2] He was a celebrated prisoner of war, before being repatriated in May 1945.
  • MissDeeDee78
    MissDeeDee78 Posts: 415 Member
    Will_Run_4_Food wrote: »
    MissDeeDee78 wrote: »
    TIL that I cannot fit 27 cherry tomatoes in my mouth. :#

    But 26 will fit?

    Hmmm let me try..... :D
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
    I just learned that UPS trucks do not make left turns
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    pudgy1977 wrote: »
    I just learned that UPS trucks do not make left turns

    It's quicker that way.
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
    thedcubed1 wrote: »
    pudgy1977 wrote: »
    I just learned that UPS trucks do not make left turns

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    http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/world/ups-trucks-no-left-turns/index.html

    They save 10 million gallons of gas a year!!
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    thedcubed1 wrote: »
    pudgy1977 wrote: »
    thedcubed1 wrote: »
    pudgy1977 wrote: »
    I just learned that UPS trucks do not make left turns

    a5898b1f4ejv.gif

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/world/ups-trucks-no-left-turns/index.html

    They save 10 million gallons of gas a year!!

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    So would you say you learned something..... today?
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    BowlingForHollars wrote: »
    Wait what?

    Today I learned that an old, deactivated account that's still signed in on a browser can post.

    Yeah, that is a glitch but it never lasts.
  • Just_J_Now
    Just_J_Now Posts: 9,551 Member
    BowlingForHollars wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    BowlingForHollars wrote: »
    Wait what?

    Today I learned that an old, deactivated account that's still signed in on a browser can post.

    Yeah, that is a glitch but it never lasts.

    I feel like Patrick Swayze in Ghost. Who's my Demi and who's my Whoopie?

    Oooo can I be your Demi.
  • Tencwhiskey
    Tencwhiskey Posts: 36 Member
    you can get some interesting messages on here
  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    edited August 2017
    Presleykay22 wrote: »
    Well yesterday I learned that America was not discovered by Christopher Columbus my mind was blown sounds really stupid but that was what I was taught

    Yeah, there seems to be a lot of American history that is just plain wrong or ignores major facts.

    I am sure it is the same for a lot of countries.

    Are Americans taught something a long the lines of the first Europeans came on the Mayfair, landed at Plymouth Rock?

    Because I heard the first words those people heard from native Americans was "do you have any beer" in English.

    Because the Native American had already made several trips between America and Europe by that point.

    Off to google to fact check....

    There was one Native American who travelled to Europe multiple times and he taught the other Native American who then asked for beer.
  • WorkerDrone83
    WorkerDrone83 Posts: 3,195 Member
    TIL that the scheduling assistant in Microsoft outlook isn't only helpful to planning meetings, but also for finding out when Management will be too busy to notice that you've disappeared for the rest of the day :)
  • rsamuelsgold
    rsamuelsgold Posts: 391 Member
    TIL you can buy a BMW with flame throwers to avoid car jacking
  • JLAJ81
    JLAJ81 Posts: 2,477 Member
    Tencwhiskey wrote: »
    you can get some interesting messages on here

    Like?
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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