Today I Learned…

[DuckDuck]

either way balls look fucking disgusting, like the labia , there’s nothing lovely looking about any sexual organ between the legs. You could roll it all in glitter and stick lipstick on it , it would still look like punched lasagne or marbles in socks

There's something called scrotox which is botox for the balls
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[Pinkii]

I learnt that the fluffy wristbands tennis players wear are not for looking cool and all tennisy, They’re for wiping the sweat off your forehead instead of using your naked forearm and getting sweaty hands.
Mind was blown.

Not to distract from the topic of the thread but I always use sweatbands when washing my face as i hate when the water drips down my arm.

 

[HockyRorror]

The feeling that you have when you’re falling to sleep half way between a conscious and dream state and you dream you trip or fall and your body shudders you awake are called hypnic jerks (from the same “family” as hiccups). One evolutionary explanation is that it developed from when we were primates and to stop ourselves falling from trees (as observed from monkeys)

Also, the reason why the majority of people can’t run fast or punch properly in dreams is because our bodies go into a natural paralysed state to stop us from actually doing those things, so our brains can’t compute running or punching in a dream because it doesn’t send signals of the sensations of putting force behind a punch, or using our leg muscles to run for example (also why a lot of people “glide” in dreams without actually physically walking). This doesn’t apply to some people though, hence sleepwalkers, and people that lash out in their sleep!

 

[roarke]

That a horse is 15 horsepower.

 

[IMissDi]

I did not know until yesterday that the holes at the end of saucepan handles can be used to hold a cooking spoon that you use in the pan when it is cooking on the hob

 

[AliceInWanderLost]

A group of penguins, is called a waddle

but only a waddle the penguins are on land. if a group of penguins is in the water, they're called a raft!

 

[watermelon sugar]

Pigs don’t sweat

 

[emm]

Gladiators had endorsement deals with things like olive oil and sword sharpeners.

when i first read that I was confused as I thoughth you meant gladiators the 90s tv show

 

[lisaleese]

Rip him a new one! That money could have been spent on you!! He should not be paying for porn in this age, it’s free

This was what I was thinking. I know he looks at porn but there is a bit more of a back story. We are trying for a baby and can’t because we don’t have sex pretty much. I feel rejected by him especially after finding this out.
It’s the money part also as he is always controlling how I spend money.

You're fully entitled to feel however you feel!
It's your opinions and feelings that matter, when and if discussing it with him, not other people's

Thank you. I feel like I don’t want to be around him but also still love him. Just feels so shot and wish I didn’t know this or have to deal with this.

Rip him a new one! That money could have been spent on you!! He should not be paying for porn in this age, it’s free

Yup! I watch porn and I’m ok with him watching it. But not paying for it and especially Onlyfans as I know that toh pay for custom videos and 121 chats etc. it feels like he has went cheated. The money is an issue as he is always discouraging me from spending my own money.

It's each to their own.
Personally I'm not comfortable with my partner pleasuring themselves over other women.
Especially when that is, in many many relationships, chosen over their own partner.
Myself included. Hence my issue with it after being in a relationship where you're rejected because they'd rather look at porn. It's very common.
If that hadn't been the case previously, then maybe I would have the same view as you.

Yes this is how I’m feeling! Like he chooses porn over sex or time with me. He has literally said no to having sex with me a couple of times because he had just watched porn and had a wank. So I was literally rejected.

Even in a marriage surely we're allowed to our own private thoughts and fantasies?

Yeh and I do get that part too. I don’t want to sex shame him or make him feel like he can’t have his own personal time. I would be hurt if I couldn’t feel like I could have some “self care” and was made to feel bad about it.

I would be furious. Porn isn't the issue (for me), spending hundreds of pounds on something that's available elsewhere online for free is almost madness. (I hope you aren't financially struggling. If that's the case, the fact that it was hidden is even more distasteful.)

We aren’t struggling financially but we are watching what we spend and need to take out a loan to pay off something this year. So we are saving a lot and don’t have this money to literally be paying sex workers for. This is how I see it, paying for sex. Albeit it is online so not in person sex work.

I go without things that I want to buy l, for instance I wanted an Apple Watch and he said I didn’t need it and discouraged me from buying it. Then I find this out?!

 

[Miss.Chanandler.Bong]

I went to a nature preserve yesterday where you can watch sea turtles come up to lay their eggs. The guide told us that whether a sea turtle’s egg is male or female depends entirely on the temperature of the sand. Cooler sand they come out male

 

[Twertle]

TIL that you can use both learned and learnt and neither is wrong. I googled it because learned doesn’t sound right to me - reached doesn’t sound right to me either I think because past tense of teach is taught so why isn’t reached raught… now I’ve written it it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. In my job I pick apart the English language so finely that sometimes my brain explodes with it ‍

 

[AliceInWanderLost]

dolphins sleep with one eye open, because they have to remain conscious to ensure they breathe and to watch out for predators, so only one side of their brain sleeps at a time, while the other half remains conscious and functioning and they alternate each side periodically. so the side of their brain which remains awake, the eye stays open, even though the other half of their brain is asleep.

 

[sarah4000]

Two doctors invented the chainsaw in 1780 to make the removal of pelvic bone easier and less time-consuming during childbirth.

 

[AliceInWanderLost]

that it's not uncommon for squirrels to get drunk eating fermented fruit!

 

[JOHN1967]

Martin Kemp has three kidneys. His older brother Gary has one.

Martin Kemp reveals he has three kidneys (and Gary only has one)

It sounds like one of those bizarre celebrity urban myths, but turns out this one is true.

www.smoothradio.com

!

All i can say is, give it back you thieving git.

 

[roarke]

Cornflakes we’re invented as an anti-masturbation food.

 

[WilmaHun]

The term "n" is derived from the phrase "Not on normal courtyard exercise"

 

[emmer_moans]

That the percentage on the weather doesn't mean the chance of that weather, it's how much of the forecasted area will receive that weather

So if it says for example
Rain - 40% of Manchester it means that 40% of Manchester will get rain
not that it's a 40% chance

Whhhhat?! Why don’t they explain it on the app.. all this time i’ve been saying “oh, looks like 60% chance of thunder today”

 

[AliceInWanderLost]

to stop from going too off topic, today i learned that a group of owls is called a parliament

i LOVE collective nouns! i could genuinely sit here all day and tell you the names used to describe groups of animals - my favourites include a dazzle of zebra, a mischief of mice and a kaleidoscope of butterflies.

 

[petitspois]

Pandas need to poo about 40 times a day

Sounds like my ex.