Today I Learned… #2

[Slaybutter]

If someone is having difficult climbing a wall, they’ll say something like, ‘this wall doesn’t have perches.’ They’re not saying “purchase.”

 

[qqwertyy]

Right?? When I tell you all I was SHOOK

 

[WhatABore]

Onto a new thread!

 

[JulesWake]

Whilst animals are being discussed, (Some) Hyenas actually enjoy a cuddle (from those who know how to handle them). Personally they freak me out, strange looking creatures.

 

[miserysorrow]

Roope is the Finnish equivalent to Robert

 

[Miss.Chanandler.Bong]

Macaulay Culkin’s voice is a lot more high pitched than I would have thought

https://www.archive.is/oldest/https...hanks-fiancee-Brenda-Song-giving-purpose.html

 

[Pesky Tarian]

I've found out today that the series of books I've been reading and enjoying are written by Harriet of traitors fame (highly recommend).

 

[CallMeHollywood]

You can change the motion field on Ring doorbells. Mine’s been going off constantly due to my autumn wreath lifting in the wind. Serious first world problem, I know.

 

[Miss.Chanandler.Bong]

Children of identical twins are siblings not cousins genetically. As the daughter of an identical twin this had fascinated me.

I think I mentioned this before but I have some double cousins in my family (a set of fraternal twins married a brother and sister). I was reading something similar to you that the family’s kids share the same amount of dna as half siblings

 

[Pesky Tarian]

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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

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.

 

[RaveChampion]

My new (not cheap either) waterproof trousers aren't very waterproof.
Maybe they work for incontinence. I'll try weeing in them if I remember later on.

 

[Boredofgrey]

Do you wash them first or put them in the sun then wash?

I wash first then peg out - stain facing the sun. I use fairy liquid on the stain pre wash. Wash. Peg out facing the sun and it works 99% time. (See how rock and roll my life is)

 

[Rodneytrotter]

That birds only use their nests in mating season and to keep eggs. The rest of the time they just hang out on branches and rooves and stuff

Aah, I thought they went to sleep in their nest every night

 

[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!!