The "I learned something new today!" Thread

[MapleSilver]

Apparently for a brief period of time in the 1980s, Pepsi owned the 6th largest navy in the world. This was after trading 3 billion dollars worth of soda to the Soviet Union in exchange for 17 submarines and 3 warships.

 

[Alienfish]

I learned how to make windows emoji keyboard pop up ...

(windows key + ?)

 

[Shellzilla_515]

Apparently, those with iron deficiencies have a craving with ice. What's even weirder is that they can potentially have cravings for non-food items such as paper and even dirt.

 

[Stella-Io]

Apparently, those with iron deficiencies have a craving with ice. What's even weirder is that they can potentially have cravings for non-food items such as paper and even dirt.

Stuff like this make some think I'm anemic. Along with some other stuff.

Laser eye surgery works by taking a layer of skin off the eye.

That's just horrifying.

 

[Imbri]

I learned a new technique for grafting the toe on socks.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

TIL that Apu from The Simpsons was the fifth Beatle lmaoo

 

[Aniko]

I learned about Achenbach syndrome today (Paroxysmal hand hematoma). Yesterday, for no reason, one of my finger turned violet and swollen. Out of nowhere. I didn't hit it or anything, I was just...not doing anything special that could lead to some injury. It didn't hurt. It was just strange.

 

[Stella-Io]

Dairy doesn't directly cause acne, but messes with our bodies producing more hormones that cause acne.

Acne caused by stress appears on the cheeks, as does hormonal acne.

Some other acne related stuff to that my sister told me but I forgot. She's one of the few people I will have an open discussion about acne with. Everyone else just says offensive things.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

I just learned that the emperor from Star Wars is named Sheev Palpatine. I'm honestly not sure how I'm just now learning this lol

 

[Alienfish]

Dairy doesn't directly cause acne, but messes with our bodies producing more hormones that cause acne.

Acne caused by stress appears on the cheeks, as does hormonal acne.

Some other acne related stuff to that my sister told me but I forgot. She's one of the few people I will have an open discussion about acne with. Everyone else just says offensive things.

Yeah I can tell food and stress ones get all over your face and it's annoying like why do they even pop up so hard just begone And yeah I don't use much dairy things other than butter when frying and sometimes cheese for the mac's but yea i def prefer oat stuff and good to know them dairy things do cause my acne is horrid ugh.

Anyway found out they have money deposit ATMs in the mall here.. good cause i dont wanna go into town just for that lol

 

[joombo]

Today I learned more about chat bot technologies. I have found company that provides chat bot development services at affordable price, go to website, and create messaging bots that interact with users just like a human. Never thought it could be so entertaining.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

Today I learned that the word "grenade" comes from the French word for "pomegranate". Also the Chinese word for "hand grenade" roughly translates to "hand pomegranate ammunition.

So basically...

 

[xSuperMario64x]

Just learned that the state vegetable of Oklahoma is a friggin WATERMELON xDDD

 

[Alienfish]

Just learned that the state vegetable of Oklahoma is a friggin WATERMELON xDDD

wait what there are state veggies? :thinking: TIL as well.

Anyways that extra/sub staff mess up at the library during weekend. sigh.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

I learned a new German word: backpfeifengesicht!
I guess it means "a face in need of a slap" xDD

Also my prof came into the class, sat his mug of tea on the desk, wrote something on the board, and then left for a few minutes. He wrote, "Bitte nicht in den Tee spucken!" which translates to "Please do not spit in the tea!" lmaooo

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wait what there are state veggies? :thinking: TIL as well.

It's definitely not a common thing here. I know Ohio doesn't have a state veggie or anything like that (although if we did it would prob be corn lmao).

 

[Alienfish]

Also yeah I think we have like province mushrooms and random plant/animal stuff but veggies sounded p specific lmao

 

[MapleSilver]

Today I learned that when KFC tried expanding into China, their slogan "finger lickin' good" somehow translated into "eat your fingers off" in Mandarin. I think that's one of the funniest mistakes a corporation has made.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

I just realized that they removed the ability for animal villagers to get sick in New Leaf after the WA update. Honestly it didn't really affect me because I haven't played much in recent years and I never really bothered with sick animals anyways, but I find it interesting that they decided to remove the feature.

 

[Juice_Campbell]

Today I learned about the Bayou Corne Sinkhole.

It's a manmade sinkhole in Louisiana that a large company created through salt mining. It's become exponentially bigger over the years and the company, Texas Brine, has been paying for it since 2012. It was originally discovered because of high seismic activity in the area.

 

[Nodokana]

Today in anatomy I learned that the coxal region is the hips not the area where the coccyx is.