Today I Learned…

[MitziAdele]

One for the more mature tattlers..
Remember the 'Charley Says' information videos back in the day? They were usually don't go with strangers or play with matches, that sort of thing. Well I just found out that Charley the cat was voiced by the late great KENNY EVERETT. He would "miaow" the message which was then translated by the little boy.
Who knew!

 

[Hot_Dogs_Or_Toes]

I watched a programme about Iceland on Channel Five this evening - and found out that country has a museum of penises.

Haha this is true I've been there! The largest penis on display was a whale penis and as you might imagine it was pretty huge lol. You can also submit a mold or a photo of your own penis if you want and they'll display it. I chose not to do so haha

 

[Phoenix Lazarus]

I watched a programme about Iceland on Channel Five this evening - and found out that country has a museum of penises.

 

[derbyshiregirl]

Your thigh bones are stronger than concrete

 

[Pulltheotherone]

The dot on top of the letters 'i' and 'j' is called a tittle

 

[unfinishedsentenc]

Today I learned that I'm a ditzy cow who just realised that coriander and cilantro are the same plant!

 

[CallMeHollywood]

When someone says “hold your horses” they’re telling you to be stable.

 

[Livia Fantasy]

And Mrs Ware…..

And their son Master Party

 

[Hot_Dogs_Or_Toes]

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 ‍

Thanks for learning us that

 

[CallMeHollywood]

Did you think Mr Fein was a person or a company called Sinn Fein?

Thought it was a person because it was always read on the news as, “Sinn Fein, Paddy Ashdown, Tony Blair” etc. I never questioned it until I saw it on Reddit earlier. Turns out, I’m not the only one.

 

[Pesky Tarian]

I was once followed around a night club by a guy who was convinced he had been on a date with me the weekend before (I was at home with my boyfriend). At first I thought it was some weird chat up technique, but he seemed sober and utterly certain.

He was cute tbf, go single doppelganger me, living your best life!

 

[Sibz]

I didn't know what milk, milk, lemonade, round the corner chocolate's made really meant until recently I thought it was just a jolly rhyme as a kid and had no idea why people were laughing at me!!

 

[CallMeHollywood]

TIL PETA once purchased the minimum number of shares required for them to speak at the annual Starbucks meeting so they could share their objection to the company’s policy of charging extra for non-dairy milks.

in a similar vein, a woman whose daughter was knocked off her bike and killed by a lorry, bought shares in the lorry company to ensure measures were taken to minimise blind spots on their vehicles.

 

[roarke]

I learnt today that you can vomit your own faeces. Just to clarify, I was told this and didn’t actually do it myself!

Im really glad you clarified this.

 

[MitziAdele]

Pigs are incredibly social animals, and form close bonds with each other. When kept in a group, they will snuggle close to one another and prefer to sleep nose-to-nose. Studies show that, much like humans, they also dream in their sleep.

 

[Charitas]

i'm a valentines day baby

I'm a three day week electricity strikes baby!

 

[HockyRorror]

That Charlie Brooker of Screenwipe and Black Mirror fame is one of the founders of CeX

 

[Boredofgrey]

The cost of Mother of the bride/groom dresses

Go to a dress shop you like. Take the wording wedding away and suddenly the price drops! I’ve been married 14 years and when we booked ours we wanted a band. A band for a wedding was £2k. A band was £1k! The word wedding makes people greedy!

 

[Sprezza]

Most people probably already know this but the bodies of those who die climbing mount everest are left on the mountain. When there's a period of warm weather some of the ice melts and reveals hidden bodies that have been there for years and climbers pass multiple dead bodies during their climbs

 

[Fenella]

I only just learnt yesterday that your bowels are your intestines.

I always thought the bowel was like a separate organ that held stuff, like the bladder.

No idea how I didn’t know that!