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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL William Wrigley Jr. began by selling soap and offered baking powder as an incentive to buy it. Finding the baking powder more popular, he switched to selling it instead and gave his customers gum as incentive. Again, he found that the gum was more popular and began to sell it instead.
  • LittleLionHeart1
    LittleLionHeart1 Posts: 3,655 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL that Michael Phelps has more Summer Olympic gold medals than 80% of countries in history even when taking into account countries that no longer exist.

    Today I learned that the box of cereal with Michael Phelps Olympic picture on it. And with the added sharpee marker art my old coworker did on it. A bong and the saying, "Before I eat a bowl, I smoke a bowl."
    Well that box, was in the refrigerator where I used to work for years. It was our prize possession. I used to clean out the fridge from time to time, and always set that box back in there. I really liked that box alot. Someone threw that box away finally. :/ *kitten*. 1f2dkkwvivms.jpg
  • Annalee82_
    Annalee82_ Posts: 320 Member
    That some people don't realize you can lose weight and still be incredibly unhealthy.

    Oh, and that apes can get down syndrome.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL the sun loses about 6 million tons of mass every second due to nuclear fusion and the solar wind. Despite losing that much material, it has only lost about 0.05% of it's original mass over the past 4.5 billion years.
  • RomaineCalm
    RomaineCalm Posts: 3,972 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL the sun loses about 6 million tons of mass every second due to nuclear fusion and the solar wind. Despite losing that much material, it has only lost about 0.05% of it's original mass over the past 4.5 billion years.

    :huh: :noway:
  • caco_ethes
    caco_ethes Posts: 11,962 Member
    RomaineCalm wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL the sun loses about 6 million tons of mass every second due to nuclear fusion and the solar wind. Despite losing that much material, it has only lost about 0.05% of it's original mass over the past 4.5 billion years.

    :huh: :noway:

    Ditto
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  • RomaineCalm
    RomaineCalm Posts: 3,972 Member
    pudgy1977 wrote: »
    TIL that when you leave your deodorant in a hot car it melts. And when you open it, it explodes everywhere. AND when it explodes everywhere and you have the AC running in said car it hardens when it lands. I learned this because it happened to me on my way into work this morning, and now the inside of my car looks like someone was videoing a porno in my car because there is white globs all over. So there's that

    This is terrible. And it also made me laugh.
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
    RomaineCalm wrote: »
    pudgy1977 wrote: »
    TIL that when you leave your deodorant in a hot car it melts. And when you open it, it explodes everywhere. AND when it explodes everywhere and you have the AC running in said car it hardens when it lands. I learned this because it happened to me on my way into work this morning, and now the inside of my car looks like someone was videoing a porno in my car because there is white globs all over. So there's that

    This is terrible. And it also made me laugh.

    Yea, any thoughts on how to get deodorant off interior? And PS...I have been laughing about this all morning as well. These things only happen to me
  • RomaineCalm
    RomaineCalm Posts: 3,972 Member
    @pudgy1977 wrote: »
    RomaineCalm wrote: »
    pudgy1977 wrote: »
    TIL that when you leave your deodorant in a hot car it melts. And when you open it, it explodes everywhere. AND when it explodes everywhere and you have the AC running in said car it hardens when it lands. I learned this because it happened to me on my way into work this morning, and now the inside of my car looks like someone was videoing a porno in my car because there is white globs all over. So there's that

    This is terrible. And it also made me laugh.

    Yea, any thoughts on how to get deodorant off interior? And PS...I have been laughing about this all morning as well. These things only happen to me

    Maybe try some of these:
    http://www.youbeauty.com/fitness/11-easy-ways-to-get-deodorant-marks-off-clothes/
  • janicelo1971
    janicelo1971 Posts: 823 Member
    about the # of children baker acted in FL each week:(
  • janicelo1971
    janicelo1971 Posts: 823 Member
    about the # of children baker acted in FL each week:(
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
    RomaineCalm wrote: »
    @pudgy1977 wrote: »
    RomaineCalm wrote: »
    pudgy1977 wrote: »
    TIL that when you leave your deodorant in a hot car it melts. And when you open it, it explodes everywhere. AND when it explodes everywhere and you have the AC running in said car it hardens when it lands. I learned this because it happened to me on my way into work this morning, and now the inside of my car looks like someone was videoing a porno in my car because there is white globs all over. So there's that

    This is terrible. And it also made me laugh.

    Yea, any thoughts on how to get deodorant off interior? And PS...I have been laughing about this all morning as well. These things only happen to me

    Maybe try some of these:
    http://www.youbeauty.com/fitness/11-easy-ways-to-get-deodorant-marks-off-clothes/

    HAHAH thanks. I will
  • azironasun
    azironasun Posts: 137 Member
    pudgy1977 wrote: »
    TIL that when you leave your deodorant in a hot car it melts. And when you open it, it explodes everywhere. AND when it explodes everywhere and you have the AC running in said car it hardens when it lands. I learned this because it happened to me on my way into work this morning, and now the inside of my car looks like someone was videoing a porno in my car because there is white globs all over. So there's that

    I bet your car smells nice now. lol.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL Hugh Jackman took a pay cut to ensure "Logan" would be rated R. Since 'R-rated' films typically limit the overall audience that can attend, Jackman's reduced salary brought the budget down to an acceptable place to warrant an R rating.
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  • RastaLousGirl
    RastaLousGirl Posts: 2,119 Member
    TIL I am really not that witty or fast with comebacks when I am in work mode. I get caught off guard, and too tired to respond.
  • RastaLousGirl
    RastaLousGirl Posts: 2,119 Member
    Chakota17 wrote: »
    TIL that I expect way too much from people

    I used to be this way, and disappointed way to often. Learned to not expect anyone to do anything, except my husband. ;)
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
    TIL they are making a 3rd Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure
  • 81Katz
    81Katz Posts: 7,074 Member
    Chakota17 wrote: »
    TIL that I expect way too much from people

    Ditto.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL it took Ryan Reynolds 11 yrs to get his vision of "Deadpool" made. The project overcame the failing of "X-Men:Origins" and persevered to become the highest grossing R-rated film of all time.
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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL In 2010, the Forest Service made Betty White an honorary forest ranger. White said in previous interviews that she wanted to be a forest ranger as a little girl but that women were not allowed to do that then. When White received the honor, more than 1/3 of Forest Service employees were women.
  • WorkerDrone83
    WorkerDrone83 Posts: 3,195 Member
    While looking ahead at the calendar on my phone, I noticed that something called 'Juneteenth' is all day June 19th. Today I learned that Juneteenth is an annual festival to commemorate freedom from slavery in Texas on that day in 1865.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL Mythbusters hosts Adam and Jamie built a combat robot for the show Robot Wars. It was so effective that it often sent pieces of its opponent's bodywork over the shield walls of the arena into the crowd, and after two fights the show's insurance company deemed the bot "too hazardous" to compete.
  • beagletracks
    beagletracks Posts: 6,034 Member
    TIL at the grocery store from the cover of In-Touch magazine that Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston are back together and trying desperately to have a baby using IVF!!!
  • RomaineCalm
    RomaineCalm Posts: 3,972 Member
    aChuisle_moChroi wrote: »
    TIL at the grocery store from the cover of In-Touch magazine that Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston are back together and trying desperately to have a baby using IVF!!!
    newmeadow wrote: »
    aChuisle_moChroi wrote: »
    TIL at the grocery store from the cover of In-Touch magazine that Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston are back together and trying desperately to have a baby using IVF!!!

    Wait. What?!
    Fake news
    https://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/news/are-brad-pitt-and-jennifer-aniston-having-baby-411342
  • beagletracks
    beagletracks Posts: 6,034 Member
    RomaineCalm wrote: »
    aChuisle_moChroi wrote: »
    TIL at the grocery store from the cover of In-Touch magazine that Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston are back together and trying desperately to have a baby using IVF!!!
    newmeadow wrote: »
    aChuisle_moChroi wrote: »
    TIL at the grocery store from the cover of In-Touch magazine that Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston are back together and trying desperately to have a baby using IVF!!!

    Wait. What?!
    Fake news
    https://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/news/are-brad-pitt-and-jennifer-aniston-having-baby-411342

    No way!!! So the story about alien Elvis may have been fake, too? Crap. There goes my weekend plan to make a quilt for baby Pittiston.
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