TIL there is a prequel to "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" known as "Halloween is Grinch Night", which won the Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program in 1977.
TIL that the Grinch is not exclusive to Christmas!!
BTW you might want start being on the lookout for "The Great Pumpkin" 😁
TIL that drinking OJ after brushing your teeth tastes bad because of a foaming ingredient in toothpaste which blocks your ability to taste sweetness, and you're left with the pure acidity and bitterness of the fruit.
TIL that drinking OJ after brushing your teeth tastes bad because of a foaming ingredient in toothpaste which blocks your ability to taste sweetness, and you're left with the pure acidity and bitterness of the fruit.
Am scratching my head on this one. Eating fruit bowl that was part of my breakfast after brushing teeth, all the pieces were appropriately sweet...except the blueberries. ?????
TIL (recently, actually) what a "stone" equals in pounds (14). I've lost a little more than two of them. 😊
TIL Jules Verne's wrote a novel in 1863 which predicted gas-powered cars, fax machines, wind power, missiles, electric street lighting, maglev trains, the record industry, the internet, and feminism. It was lost for over 100 years after his publisher deemed it too unbelievable to publish.
TIL when Stephen King was run over by a car in 1999 the driver apologized and said he'd never even gotten a parking ticket before. King, lying injured, replied: 'well, I've never been hit by a car before'.
TIL that even though a Rubik's Cube has 43 billion billion configurations, more than there are grains of sand on all of Earth's beaches, no configuration is more than 20 moves away from being solved, and 99.99999% of all configurations can be solved in less than 20 moves.
TIL when John Bardeen won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956, the Swedish king criticized him for not bringing his children to the ceremony. Bardeen promised he would bring them the next time he won - and in 1972, he did when he became the first person to win 2 prizes in the same field.
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TIL that the Grinch is not exclusive to Christmas!!
BTW you might want start being on the lookout for "The Great Pumpkin" 😁
Let's hear?
IDK how to do all that voice stuff on here
That's easy give them your work number and you answer the phone! LOL
Am scratching my head on this one. Eating fruit bowl that was part of my breakfast after brushing teeth, all the pieces were appropriately sweet...except the blueberries. ?????
TIL (recently, actually) what a "stone" equals in pounds (14). I've lost a little more than two of them. 😊
Kinda jealous