The "I learned something new today!" Thread

[LadyDestani]

Today I learned how the HEMI engine got its name (because of the hemisphere-shaped combustion chambers) and got a brief overview of how it works.

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

Enough Benadryl can knock you out, even when a meth head in having a freak out in the next room.

 

[Ghost Of Mascevanje]

I was toying around with a Gematria calculator, and I learned that "Chris Cornell" and "murdered" have the same number/value. His death was ruled a "suicide", but suspicion exists that someone may have actually murdered him. That's what makes this little coincidence interesting to me.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

just realized I share a birthday with the GBA's North American release

 

[xSuperMario64x]

learned something new!

the reason why the plural of goose is "geese" but the plural of moose is "moose" is because goose is derived from an old germanic word with undergoes strong declension (such as with tooth/teeth and foot/feet), whereas moose is a native american word and simply does not have a plural form.

this actually makes the whole strong/weak verb system which I learned in my German class easier to understand, cause a strong verb is a verb which declines internally/irregularly whereas a weak verb is a verb which undergoes suffixation of some kind. there may be exceptions to this, I'm no language genius, but this is still an interesting thing to find out about!

 

[Violet Witch]

Someone I work with is allergic to chocolate which affects him by non-stop sneezing, apparently the darker the chocolate the worse the sneezing gets. Easter, Halloween and Christmas must be horrible for him.

 

[Dunquixote]

I learned that black and white are neutral colors and cool colors are greens, blues and purples. I think I learned a little about it in an art class or two I took as a kid and in high school but I didn’t retain it or learn to apply it. Honestly, still not sure what to do with this aside from trying what a friend suggested out to fix a mistake I made (stick with cooler colors, though Idk how to make it work with the areas I’m basing the part on).

 

[VernalLapin]

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[Cosmic_Crossfade]

Today while playing Smash, I learned Inkling can always reload her ink as long as you block first...

 

[Alienfish]

The Japanese word for dinosaur is made up of kanji meaning “fear” and “dragon”.

Yup, there's a lot of kanjis made up like that, quite interesting indeed

Also randomly but UK sizes are definitely bigger than US sizes in most cases, at least on my body. And US unisex t-shirts are very large, lol.

 

[Xara]

today i learnt that a dolphin’s snout is called a rostrum!

 

[Princess Mipha]

Well, today I learned that "Play Dough Icecream" is a real thing and not just the toy.

 

[Bluebellie]

The antenna moves. I didn’t know
So cool.

 

[.: Meri :.]

Today I learned (thanks to New Horizons) that sea grapes are edible! I'd just assumed they wouldn't be, for some reason. They actually sound really good; I'd like to try some in the future.

 

[Dunquixote]

Yesterday when I was thinking about posting some pictures of my cats on twitter, I found out that I can post the live version as a gif. I posted them as regular pictures though and later deleted them since what I wrote with them was kinda dumb in my opinion.

 

[AlyssaAC]

This was awhile back, but just thought I share, but I learned that I can just send an email to myself, so now when I transfer pictures or artwork from my iPad, I can send myself a email with my iPad and then go into my email on the computer to save it.

 

[LadyDestani]

Today I learned a new word. Pulchritude means beauty. I don't see myself using it very often, but I love adding to my vocabulary.

 

[VernalLapin]

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[Xara]

this was actually a few days ago, but i’ve learnt that the plural of sheep is literally just,, sheep lol. was wondering why my phone was telling me that “sheeps” was incorrect.

 

[Disneyfangirl23]

I’ve been at my work for 5 years today!