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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL when Sir Terry Pratchett was knighted, he forged his own sword from iron and meteorites just for the occasion.

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  • KyleGrace8
    KyleGrace8 Posts: 2,205 Member
    TIL that One A Day Adult VitaCraves Healthy Metabolism Support Multi Gummies are super *kitten* awful. I just tried them and I spit it out in the trash bc I thought they had gone off. Looked up the reviews and that's just how they taste. *kitten* gross.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL Just 10 rivers, 8 in Asia alone, may be responsible for dumping almost 4 million tonnes of plastic into the seas every year, accounting for 88-95% of all of plastic pollution in the ocean. Cutting plastic pollution in the 10 rivers could reduce plastic pollution in the ocean by as much as 45%.

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    The heavily polluted Yangtze river pumps massive amounts of plastic into the ocean every year.
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  • CaptainFantastic00
    CaptainFantastic00 Posts: 4,619 Member
    hellvee wrote: »
    TIL about the “Sacred Band of Thebes” an elite force of the Theban army.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/75t586/til_in_ancient_thebes_there_was_a_fairly/

    Wanna join with me @CaptainFantastic00

    Yeah get me out of this hellhole
  • WorkerDrone83
    WorkerDrone83 Posts: 3,195 Member
    TIL that when you bookmark a thread on MFP it will send you a notification every single time someone posts in that thread. I was so confused like "Raaawr, who has summoned me?! Oh, nobody"
  • Louve350
    Louve350 Posts: 17 Member
    Vikka_V wrote: »
    TIL...what "snuff" is. It was advertised at a gas station in the US. I looked it up...if anyone doesn't know it is finely ground tobacco for inhaled use.

    Before yesterday first thing that would have come to mind was snuff film.

    It's also a Song... heheheh
  • slimgirljo15
    slimgirljo15 Posts: 269,456 Member
    edited October 2017
    WorkerDrone83 wrote: »
    TIL that when you bookmark a thread on MFP it will send you a notification every single time someone posts in that thread. I was so confused like "Raaawr, who has summoned me?! Oh, nobody"

    I have lots bookmarked and I see a number next to the thread saying how many people have posted since I was there...
    Oh wait.. I know what you mean now.. the list of people who've replied to the thread ..
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL John Favreau credits Dungeons & Dragons with giving him a really strong background in imagination, storytelling, understanding how to create tone and a sense of balance.

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    As an actor, he is known for roles in films such as Rudy (1993), Swingers (1996) (which he also wrote), Very Bad Things (1998), The Break-Up (2006), Couples Retreat (2009), and Chef (2014) (which he also directed). He has also directed the films Elf (2003), Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), Iron Man (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Cowboys & Aliens (2011), and The Jungle Book (2016), and served as an executive producer on The Avengers (2012), Iron Man 3 (2013), and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).
  • sw33tp3a1
    sw33tp3a1 Posts: 5,065 Member
    It's Friday The 13th. My days have been so off lately lol
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  • beagletracks
    beagletracks Posts: 6,034 Member
    edited October 2017
    Today I learned about pee values.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=120&v=eyknGvncKLw

    Well, not really. I sort of half listened to this video and then freaked out because wtf am I going to have to learn baby statistics in two days?

    Noooooooooooooooooooooo

    Wait.

    hehheh

    hehheh

    pee

    boob

    Very serious breast augmentation question

    giggity

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  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    I learned that some people on the internet are very interested in why I am annoyed by things.
  • BoosDimples
    BoosDimples Posts: 2,826 Member
    TIL what "let by" testing, is.
  • MizMareedy
    MizMareedy Posts: 148 Member
    I learned I have to google a lot of acronyms. I also learned that I'm going to be over my calories and I'm not going to die because of it. I won't be hitting as high as maintenance calories - but still!
  • Thehardmakesitworthit
    Thehardmakesitworthit Posts: 838 Member
    I learned today that some people are just gonna be users. They just are.
  • BoosDimples
    BoosDimples Posts: 2,826 Member
    "This is not my place"
    Pug of Midkemia/Milamber of the Assembly
  • sw33tp3a1
    sw33tp3a1 Posts: 5,065 Member
    1- Some people never EVER change.
    2- The guilt that I've been carrying around it's not mine to carry as I realized I'm not the one with the problem.
    3- I'm *kitten**NG awesome!!!! (But I already knew that) ;)
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,641 Member
    Today I learned: My sisters were right to restrict me to a single glass of wine at dinner, knowing I'd have to go to work at 8.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that Enligsh is the universal "language of the skies". All pilots must learn and speak English, regardless of their origin.
  • Deadman_Diggingup
    Deadman_Diggingup Posts: 3,082 Member
    edited October 2017
    Will_Run_4_Food wrote: »
    _Deadman_Walking_ wrote: »
    TIL there is no limit to how many times one can say "pull out game" in a single day.

    but it's 2 strong, G

    fo shizzle yo
  • beagletracks
    beagletracks Posts: 6,034 Member
    TIL that that if the p-value is lower than the significance level, you can reject the null hypothesis (and I actually kind of understand what this means). I am pretty much a statistician now.

    So the goal of quantitative research is basically proving that it is more likely that nothing is not happening than that something is not happening -- therefore it is more likely that something is happening. This might seem simple to some people but it's hard for me. Writing it here helps. Thanks, cee.
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  • beagletracks
    beagletracks Posts: 6,034 Member
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    peppermintpudgy wrote: »
    TIL that that if the p-value is lower than the significance level, you can reject the null hypothesis (and I actually kind of understand what this means). I am pretty much a statistician now.

    So the goal of quantitative research is basically proving that it is more likely that nothing is not happening than that something is not happening -- therefore it is more likely that something is happening. This might seem simple to some people but it's hard for me. Writing it here helps. Thanks, cee.

    That made me think of this

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    :D
  • beagletracks
    beagletracks Posts: 6,034 Member
    TIL about bidets

    http://mentalfloss.com/article/51337/why-arent-bidets-common-us

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