Today I Learned… #2

[MitziAdele]

My local Sainsbury has a bread slicing machine for customers to use to slice their own bread.

 

[pinkmug]

today i learnt that the prototype for the modern chainsaw was made in the 18th century, originally invented for the purpose of being a surgical instrument to assist in difficult childbirths!

I learned this from QI and was horrified for the rest of that day. Imagine

 

[Melian]

Sloths can't fart!

I really want to know how you discovered this!

One of the treatments for asthma many many years ago was... tobacco / cigarettes. For many of us it's actually a trigger

The Surprising History of Smoking for Asthma

Was there a time in history when smoking was recommended?

asthma.net

 

[Captainmouse]

Horsham is the home of Uk's only caviar farm and they don’t kill the sturgeon to harvest. Totally sustainable and helping to preserve endangered species

 

[MitziAdele]

Saw this on Twitter View attachment 2369326

I was today years old too. How clever

 

[EllenDeGenerate]

That bagels are in fact delicious. I've just now enjoyed one filled with chicken and salad . NOW I get why people love them .
I used to they were just overpriced burger buns with a bit missing from the centre

 

[HockyRorror]

On tipping point, there is somebody standing behind the machine, who drops the token in

I’ve always suspected this! especially how a token swings wildly to the opposite place they said they want it.

 

[Captainmouse]

The daily mail sponsored Amy johnson's flight to Australia

 

[Melian]

I'm another female who has checked and my index finger on one hand is shorter than my ring finger and longer than other on my other hand. What does that make me?!

 

[Wolfshead]

Oh Wolfie! Did you see the video by accident?

Yes, sort of. I didn't realise what the video was going to show. I thought it was something "nice" about a seagull. Well, I suppose it was nice for the seagull but not so nice for the rabbit.

 

[Kim Mild]

That The Ketchup Song/ Asereje is a pisstake of someone singing incorrect lyrics to Rapper's Delight.

 

[EllenDeGenerate]

That my lovely, seemingly-united neighbours have split up

 

[emmer_moans]

That Kanye is married again

 

[Captainmouse]

That the theme tune to gogglebox has words, I always thought it was der der der der,etc

 

[Pesky Tarian]

I've been spelling shadow with two d's my whole and no one ever corrected me .

 

[Miss.Chanandler.Bong]

TIL.

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I just learned Chrissie Hynde co-wrote it

 

[MitziAdele]

In their early days, Simon and Garfunkel were known as Tom and Jerry

 

[AliceInWanderLost]

a crash of rhinos, a kalidescope of burterflies, a mischief of mice, a dazzle of zebra & a flamboyance of flamingos!

 

[Captainmouse]

That flax that they make linen out of is grown in the UK, well it was in Anglo Saxon times.

Still grown, fields of beautiful blue flowers and the seeds provide the omegas and are full of protein.

 

[Kim Mild]

That they make retractable sharpie pens. I spent too long trying to take the non existent lid off.