Today I Learned… #2

[Captainmouse]

Electric vehicles cannot be towed!
so if you break down on the motorway you cannot keep warm and you will have to have a flat bed truck to recover you

 

[qqwertyy]

That the shoe company is called Skechers, not Sketchers with a t 🫣

 

[Kim Mild]

That Germany has islands. Someone I was talking too is going to a German island for their holidays soon .

 

[Upintheair83]

Probably extremely late to the party but.....
Brian Cox, the physicist, was in the 90s band D:ream! (Who did the 'Things can only get better' song)
Had no idea!

 

[HockyRorror]

Sloths are the only mammals that can’t fart

it would probably take them a decade to decide to or not to, then another decade to decide they just can’t be arsed.

 

[emmer_moans]

That wrongly imprisoned people in UK still have to pay bed and board fees after being freed

 

[EllenDeGenerate]

That it's no longer socially-acceptable to smile at / greet a stranger as you pass them by whilst out for a walk

 

[Kim Mild]

That Daddy Pig actually did run the London marathon. His results have been on social media . He's down as Daddy Pig and did it in just under 6 hours.

 

[AliceInWanderLost]

Let's wake this thread up.

Polliwog is another word for tadpole.

not quite as cute as polliwog, but a baby porcupine is called a porcupette!

 

[Maisie842]

That the fi in WiFi doesn’t actually stand for anything. I’m going to start asking people for their IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence password from now on

 

[Wolfshead]

Bagpipes were introduced to the UK by Romans in 345 AD.

 

[EllenDeGenerate]

That I can't afford Charlotte Tilbury's stick foundation

 

[iLoveMeSomeCanoles]

Turkeys burp

 

[petitspois]

Thanks to another Tattle thread, I learned what a "cum gutter" is. Even more horrifying is it was used in context with Daniel O'Donnell. I'm 52 and clutching my pearls

I just googled it. How much jizz is being produced to allow it to ‘flow’? My god.

 

[CallMeHollywood]

After his wife divorced him for being “so boring”, Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner are now together 🥹

 

[Bettyboo2475]

Iv noticed people are so rude. When I do the school run I smile at all the mums- none smile back. I saw a woman and her little boy today at tesco, she dedicated recognised me and gave sort of a half smile, while I smiled and actually acknowledged her and said hi.
I don't know why I bother being friendly, I'm not going to bother anymore!

I say hi to the kids, they have better manners.

 

[Kim Mild]

....that loitering around the freezers at your local supermarket is a free and fantastic way to cool down on a day like today.

Supermarkets are always lovely and cool on a hot day

 

[Fishwife]

That Bram as in Bram Stoker creator of Dracula is short for Abraham.

 

[MitziAdele]

TIL.

 

[Kim Mild]

Let's wake this thread up.

Polliwog is another word for tadpole.