Today I Learned...
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TIL that Saint Olga, before converting to christianity, in revenge for the murder of her husband by the Drevlyans, had all of their ambassadors buried alive, killed thousands at a feast in her honour, and then burned any cities that had not paid taxes to the ground using birds she had claimed as a tax from each house to carry sulphur rags back to their homes. So that's what you need to do get your halo?1
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TIL that I have a bad memory as one of my friends was coming over for coffee before work and I went to the gym and forget she was coming over so she sent me a pic of her sitting with my wife having coffee and that said you forget something today?4
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TIL that a 13-year-old opened a hot dog sandwich stand in front of his home in Minnesota, causing a complaint to the health department. Instead of shutting him down, the inspectors helped him bring his stand up to code and paid the $87 fee for his permit out of their own pockets.7
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TIL that unicorn hunting is legal in Michigan and you can get an actual license for it. It originated from a Unicorn Hunters Club in the 70's only to gain publicity, but it grew and came to actual issued licenses for unicorn hunting.1
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TIL that unicorn hunting is legal in Michigan and you can get an actual license for it. It originated from a Unicorn Hunters Club in the 70's only to gain publicity, but it grew and came to actual issued licenses for unicorn hunting.
....gonna have to check the DNR site for this, I bet it still requires the base license, but if it's not prohibitively expensive, I'm doin it!2 -
Reckoner68 wrote: »TIL that unicorn hunting is legal in Michigan and you can get an actual license for it. It originated from a Unicorn Hunters Club in the 70's only to gain publicity, but it grew and came to actual issued licenses for unicorn hunting.
....gonna have to check the DNR site for this, I bet it still requires the base license, but if it's not prohibitively expensive, I'm doin it!
It appears to be free!
https://www.lssu.edu/banished-words-list/unicorn-hunters/
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Reckoner68 wrote: »TIL that unicorn hunting is legal in Michigan and you can get an actual license for it. It originated from a Unicorn Hunters Club in the 70's only to gain publicity, but it grew and came to actual issued licenses for unicorn hunting.
....gonna have to check the DNR site for this, I bet it still requires the base license, but if it's not prohibitively expensive, I'm doin it!
It appears to be free!
https://www.lssu.edu/banished-words-list/unicorn-hunters/
I found it too, rofl. I'll wait til I'm home to print mine
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The woo button has finally gone the way of disco music.... 4 -
TIL That Christopher Reeve bulked up over 40lb of muscle mass to play Superman with the help of David Prowse. Superman and Darth Vader were gym buddies.2
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TIL that Saturns’ rings are, cosmically speaking, a very brief event. We are about halfway through their 200 million year lifespan and are very lucky as a species to be alive to witness them. “Some velociraptor with a telescope looking at Saturn would not have seen rings.”4
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TIL sea urchins are called "sea urchins" because hedgehogs were called called "urchins" until about the 15th century. Therefore, sea urchins are ocean hedgehogs.4
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That phlebotomists prefer to draw blood from a particular arm depending on whether they are right handed or left handed. 😷1
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Light speed is pretty fast. A particle of light can travel around the earth 10 times in 1 second...1
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Tennessee drivers will get off the interstate on a right exit ramp from the far left 3rd lane at 70 mph2
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ArmyVeteranM1A1C wrote: »Tennessee drivers will get off the interstate on a right exit ramp from the far left 3rd lane at 70 mph
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TIL Randy Gardner stayed awake for 264 hours, a world record. On the 11th day, when he was asked to subtract seven repeatedly, starting with 100, he stopped at 65. When asked why he had stopped, he replied that he had forgotten what he was doing.1
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Today I learned just how woefully inaccurate my food weights have been using a very old-fashioned spring scale!! I bought a digital which arrived today and it has a tare/zero button that allows me to zero out container weights. Man!! My diaries have been way off!!! That's gonna change now.5
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That my favorite sticker company is apparently making my favorite food.
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TIL I can sleep from 7pm-9am and still be tired!1
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Diet Coke with lemon juice smells like a fart (or eggs) while you're drinking it1
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TIL Switzerland has no landfills. 50% of the municipal waste is recycled, 50% is incinerated to produce electricity.2
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TIL: In 2014, former MIT employee Ethan Zuckerman apologized for inventing the first popup ad in 1997.2
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FinelyFermented wrote: »Today I've learned that the mfp forums are still a *kitten* show, albeit funny, after a 2 year break from the app
What is *kitten*?
Seen this and I’ve been termed this but not sure what it means.
Obviously I don’t do much social media.
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Thanks,..these forums are I guess, interesting and good at times but I find them kinda mean sometimes.JustReadTheInstructions wrote: »robbell678 wrote: »FinelyFermented wrote: »Today I've learned that the mfp forums are still a *kitten* show, albeit funny, after a 2 year break from the app
What is *kitten*?
Seen this and I’ve been termed this but not sure what it means.
Obviously I don’t do much social media.
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It's an automatic filter that MFP puts on curse words
Guess that’s why I am one of the few who doesn’t have a Facebook account.
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TIL: There were 4 dogs used in the film “Cujo” and they all had to have their tails tied down by fishing wire to make them appear menacing because they were all wagging their tails the entire time.3
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TIL that the Inland Taipan or "fierce snake" is the most venomous snake in the world. However, because of its shy and timid nature there has never been a recorded death caused by its bite. The word "fierce" describes its venom, not its temperament.
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TIL: The main person behind Wendy's famous twitter roasts is a woman named Amy Brown.2
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