TIL: post things you learned today. -

[AprilRains]

The Spanish cry of "!olè!" is from the Arabic "w-Allah", which means "By God!"

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

If you get St. Ives green tea face scrub in your eyes while wearing contacts, it'll adhere to the surface of your contacts and turn them into sandpaper.

 

[AprilRains]

Andreas Kempe, a seventeenth-century Swedish philologist, wrote a satirical tract in response to many serious discussions of what language was spoken in Paradise. Kempe suggested that Adam spoke Danish, God spoke Swedish, and the serpent spoke French.

 

[Teri-Teri]

There's a Filipino rite called "tuli." It means that all boys between ages 10-15 must be circumcised. If you're not "tuli'd" it means that you're a coward or a "supot".

 

[Cynthia]

3% of what makes up antarctic glaciers is frozen penguin piss.

 

[ASU]

TIL that the differences in the Jewish and Christian concept of a messiah means that if a Christian messiah comes to Earth the Jews will consider him a fraud, and if a Jewish messiah comes to Earth the Christians will think he's a fraud. Then I guess they'll plot to kill him. Seems like I read a story like this in a book once, things didn't turn out so great.

 

[Mrs Paul]

My cat is heavier than a bucket of rain water.

NFL games can end in ties.

 

[sadstuck]

Today I learned this is a thing.

 

[The Last Stand]

McDonald's delivers now in the area.

 

[Teri-Teri]

Lachhiman Gurung, a Nepalese Gurkha, singlehandedly (literally) fought over 200 Japanese troops for 4 hours with just only his bolt action rifle.

 

[AprilRains]

In Anglo-Saxon England, the shire reeve was the senior official of a town. Under the Normans, he was reduced to a manager and peacekeeper of the local peasantry. This is how the "sheriff" became a fucking cop.

 

[Ilackcreativity]

The US army in World War 1 employed skeet shooters to shoot grenades the Germans threw before the landed in the trenches.

 

[joombo]

Today I've finally learned area code of Greece. My cousin moved to Greece not so long ago and I'm still getting used to her new phone number, each time have to check the country code through site to dial the correct number. She told me so many interesting facts about Greece that now I want to visit this country too.

 

[Applejack]

There are people who unironically wear trenchcoats in 90 degree weather. Some are just willing to suffer for their terrible fashion sense.

 

[J A N D E K]

TIL:

If you want to be seen. Stand up.
If you want to be heard. Speak up.
If you want to be anonymous. Shut up.

 

[Konover]

Cities actually weigh a couple grams more in sunlight than in darkness, thanks to photon pressure from the sun.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

Apparently attempting to use spraypaint on styrafoam causes it to disintigrate. Or at least that's what the metallic kind did to my crappy prop knife. Oops.

 

[Teri-Teri]

Dumpster is actually a brand name; the generic name for waste container is called a "skip bin."

 

[Lurkette]

Apparently attempting to use spraypaint on styrafoam causes it to disintigrate. Or at least that's what the metallic kind did to my crappy prop knife. Oops.
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We had to spray paint Styrofoam for "rubble" in a show I was just in. I could have warned you fam.

til that lgbtq individuals have a monopoly on performing in The Rocky Horror Show, and being tired at a midnight show (when you've never had to be part of one before) is a sin. Also, clearing the stage/lobby of props after/before a show is the time when the real drama happens.

 

[AprilRains]

I thought the "black Irish" were descended from survivors of the Spanish Armada's shipwreck off the coast of Ireland. They are not currently thought to have been so. They represent a minority phenotype in the Irish gene pool.

Didn't exactly learn this today but it was recent.