Today I Learned… #2

[Mamacita]

I can't remember exactly, but I think it was a personal trainer if it's just water it'll go right through you but if it has juice then it works the body better.

Ah okay I guess it would be to do with things like sugar or protein in the drink slowing down the absorption. It's mostly sodium and potassium that would make a drink more hydrating but need to be careful with things like that as well especially in the heat and or if someone is training hard

For example I just found out the recently popular Prime drinks are marketed as hydration beverages but actually contain very little sodium to be that.

Also heard of a case of a guy who played tennis in the heat and was hydrating himself with coconut water, which is high in potassium and almost died

 

[EllenDeGenerate]

That your brain tissues have no pain receptors.

 

[MitziAdele]

 

[AliceInWanderLost]

I think coke cola originally contained cocaine

yeah, it did originally - a combination of cocaine and caffeine, but they ditched cocaine as an ingredient in the early 1900s, as more knowledge of the drug (which was legal at the time & used as medicine for various ailments) raised concerns about addiction etc.

 

[Piff paff puff]

 

[Bettyboo2475]

When my child learned to wave, they’d wave at absolutely everyone. It used to piss me off the amount of old bastards that wouldn’t acknowledge them. They were a baby.
I know not everyone likes kids but not everyone likes old people and can still manage to be polite.

This always annoyed me and often I wanted to say something but my child wasn't fussed.

 

[Cathoarder]

Realise no one has been on this thread for a while but just had to share what I saw on insta. Brian from corrie was on the Hannah Montana movie!!

 

[Miss.Chanandler.Bong]

I've gone a bit nostalgic and started watching Buffy series 1. In one Internet based episode they kept referring to e-letters, which made me think who/when decided on e-mail.

I love Buffy. One of my fave facts is that they were the first tv show to ever use the word Googled

 

[hehehe]

Not only is Alice Cooper still alive, he's also only in his 70s? I thought he'd be at least 90!

My mum, who's in her 70s, used to listen to him when School's Out was released, so how are they only a few years apart?

And not just that, he's been married to the same woman since 1976!

 

[Piff paff puff]

What, ever? So it could essentially be a free bookshop!?

I'm not sure as I was in a rush, she just said oh,we don't charge for late books anymore. Maybe it's a new thing as last year I got emails from them when my books were due back but this time nothing

 

[nopenopenopejustno]

The receptionist, Elisha, in The Dog House is an actor

 

[HockyRorror]

I love Buffy. One of my fave facts is that they were the first tv show to ever use the word Googled

The correct answer to the question “A number one followed by one hundred zeros is known by what name?' was googol, which is where Google got its name, and also the answer to the million pound question answered “correctly” by coughing scandal cheat Charles Ingram on Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
---

Drinking pure water will kill you, your body needs the impurities to function

What does this mean? Does all water on earth contain impurities making it safe to drink for us?

 

[AliceInWanderLost]

It's Thursday and not Friday like I anticipated. Which leads to the next assertion.
Wishes don't come true,

i thought it was Friday too!

 

[Libbylulu]

Pope Francis was a nightclub bouncer before becoming a priest

He was also a janitor and a chemical technician

 

[Bobby Chariot]

Around 1 in 18 people have a 3rd nipple

My boyfriend has three nipples. Is he a mutant?

www.sciencefocus.com

 

[merlot]

When my child learned to wave, they’d wave at absolutely everyone. It used to piss me off the amount of old bastards that wouldn’t acknowledge them. They were a baby.
I know not everyone likes kids but not everyone likes old people and can still manage to be polite.

People are maybe scared to be branded a PDoh in doing so..
I drive a little classic car, for some reason kids go nuts for it so I give them a little beep beep and a wave when they're pointing and smiling, (even though I really don't like kids, but I appreciate that they like my car ) if I was a bloke I'd maybe feel like I couldn't do that...

Sign of the times I guess. 🫤

 

[GabbyJ]

That there is such a thing as a cucumber spider. So little and bright green

 

[hehehe]

Missing You was sung by a man (I found out watching the eponymous awful Netflix show). I always thought that was a woman's voice.

 

[GrilledCheese]

Learned recently that people with dementia have trouble drawing clocks (Google dementia clock test)

 

[RaveChampion]

I've learned (to my chagrin) that if you think it's Friday when it's a Thursday then it becomes a Friday like it should have been yesterday then the end of the week feeling is cheapened somehow.
A bitter pill to swallow.