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  • sw33tp3a1
    sw33tp3a1 Posts: 5,065 Member
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    Bae in Danish means poop
  • BoosDimples
    BoosDimples Posts: 2,826 Member
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    sw33tp3a1 wrote: »
    Bae in Danish means poop

    You've sooo made my day! :joy:
  • 123liveoak
    123liveoak Posts: 2,239 Member
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    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    Today I learned that elephants think humans are cute the way humans think puppies are cute (the same part of the brain lights up when they see us)

    Really? This would make me smile if this is true!
  • BoosDimples
    BoosDimples Posts: 2,826 Member
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    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    Today I learned that elephants think humans are cute the way humans think puppies are cute (the same part of the brain lights up when they see us)

    This makes my heart smile! I adore elephants! :heart:
  • orangegato
    orangegato Posts: 6,570 Member
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    TIL that Club Med's activities and nice gym can't balance out the evil temptation of their buffet meals. *kitten* it. I'm on vacation anyway.
  • elizarizo
    elizarizo Posts: 489 Member
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    That it is what it is
  • bjdw_1977
    bjdw_1977 Posts: 442 Member
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    If you go that far out, you have to come that far back. (I seem to have to re-learn this every summer when I dust the kayak off.)
  • dwrightlaw
    dwrightlaw Posts: 804 Member
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    TIL I deserve better
  • Iscah13
    Iscah13 Posts: 1,954 Member
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    Geese poop up to a pound a day. I think.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL German chocolate cake was made by an american whose last name was "German".

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL that in 2007 workers in Antarctica discovered several perfectly preserved crates of Scotch Whiskey left behind by Ernest Shackleton in 1909.

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL about Baltimore's Mr. Trash Wheel, a waterway trash inceptor that removed approx. 200,000 bottles, 173,000 potato chip bags, and 6.7 million cigarette butts from the inner harbor in just 18 months of initial operation.

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  • ckozl81
    ckozl81 Posts: 59 Member
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    The respiratory tract produces more than a liter (33.8 fluid ounces) of mucus a day.
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
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    That some people are outraged at the thought of pumping their own gas.
  • Iscah13
    Iscah13 Posts: 1,954 Member
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    TIL the free perfume samples from magazines aren’t cutting it anymore
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL There's a place in the Pacific Ocean called Point Nemo. It s so far from land, the nearest humans are often astronauts. The ISS orbits the Earth at a maximum of 258 miles (416km). Meanwhile the nearest inhabited landmass to Point Nemo is over 1,670 miles (2,700km) away.

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  • LiftingRiot
    LiftingRiot Posts: 6,952 Member
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    To not drink coffee before going to bed. If you can sleep, its a weird sleep.
  • MrSith
    MrSith Posts: 1,636 Member
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    some things never change.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL no one really knew who designed the "solo jazz cup" blue and purple design that had become famous on the internet until an AMA request for the designer led to an investigative reporter in Springfield, MO discovering it was created by Gina Ekiss in 1989 as part of a design contest by the company.

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