Today I Learned…

[Blue pumpkin]

There's a Starbucks cup in every shot in the movie Fight Club.

 

[AliceInWanderLost]

...that geese have teeth!

 

[Pineapple glitter]

Courtesy of tattle threads (at the grand old age of 28) I learned the term 'pegging' and what it means

 

[OwlAtTheMoon]

A tin of soup is cooked IN ITS TIN in the factory! Not cooked in massive vats then poured into the tins afterwards. Actually cooked from raw in the tins! It's to help prevent bacteria contamination apparently. I'm gobsmacked learning this tbh.

 

[StillLucilleBluth]

How to French plait my own hair! I’m 37! Couldn’t be happier

 

[OnlyHereForTheLolz]

TIL that the queen trained as a truck mechanic during world war 2..

She is the original boss. People might not like the monarchy but she literally gave her life for the country

 

[Lalla]

That hippos can't swim.

They basically just sink to the riverbed and then run (surprisingly fast) along the bottom

 

[petitspois]

I felt very stupid when I learned that ABBA stands for Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn and Anni-Frid.

 

[ForeverMakingJibesWicked]

…that my ex husband has been slandering me on the internet despite the fact our marriage collapsed in 2015 and he has since remarried and has a child himself.

 

[Libbylulu]

Plants cry out when they need watering except humans can’t hear them

 

[Maisie842]

When your dog follows you to the loo and stands guard, it’s because they know that you’re at your most vulnerable state, and they are simply keeping watch like they would do in a pack.

When cats bring you “presents” of almost dead things, they aren’t just contributing to the household. They believe you don’t know how to hunt efficiently, so they bring you something that they believe you can finish off, just how they would do to teach their kittens how to hunt for food. So basically they’re just telling you how inferior they think you are to their superiority (yet again)

 

[AliceInWanderLost]

in the 1960s, there was a punctuation mark called the interrobang which was a combination of the question mark and exclamation mark - ‽ which didn't catch on and stopped being used. it was meant to be a punctuation mark that expressed both surprise and excitement - essentially in a situation where nowadays, we would simply use both, like "?!" kind disappointed it stopped being used tbh, as ‽ looks pretty cool!

 

[Lalla]

That in the This little piggy rhyme, the little piggy going to market is not going off on a little jaunt to purchase fruit and veg

 

[ThePidge]

Puff daddy and P diddy are the same person…
My husband is embarrassed for me

 

[CrimeJunkie]

That it‘s not illegal to drive with your interior lights on

 

[Cack Conroe]

The name Gary was invented by actor Gary Cooper, the stage name of Frank James Cooper. The name didn't exist before then. He named himself after the city of Gary, Indiana (incidentally, where Michael Jackson and his family hail from). So every Gary in the world is ultimately named after the city of Gary in the USA.

 

[Snippysnips]

That domestic guinea pigs developed a language only meant for humans while wild guinea pigs obviously didnt

Personally I call it abuse as mine scream it at me

 

[Sibz]

Today I learnt that sex toy advent calendars exist.

Lmao I googled "adult advent calendars" hoping for makeup, bath bombs, fragrance, that type of thing, but Google thought I meant x-rated adult

 

[Em28_]

My car, which I’ve had for almost 3 years, has air conditioning.

 

[Boredofgrey]

That the clitoris has 8,000 nerve endings

Hope you found that out in a good way