The "I learned something new today!" Thread

[-Blue-]

That sucks, so people/animals/etc. can't smile in the savannah or? Idk how a flavour would be randomly irrelevant lol.

But yeah I really hate when they discontinue stuff you like for dumb reasons :/ It's like okay you still has flavours no one buys of that brand yet you keep em lol.

Sometimes it's as simple as it's not selling well enough for them. I've seen a lot of different products fall to the wayside because of lack of sells among other things. Those candy cigarettes made a come back and I knew it wouldn't be long before they were pulled.

 

[Squidward]

Today I learned that your phone actually has a dark mode. I can’t believe I didn’t know until today and I changed it. I feel dumb for not knowing about this sooner, lmao.

I don't know what kind of a phone you have, but mine is an android and I think that feature came in a more recent update. So it's not like something that has always been there at least.

 

[Neb]

Today I learned Portland, Oregon had the first tofu shop in America. If only it were still open...

 

[Midoriya]

The other day I learned that the Emblem of Severed Fate set is good for Mona in Genshin Impact.

...Completely useless information for most people I know, but still interesting nonetheless.

 

[Alienfish]

Sometimes it's as simple as it's not selling well enough for them. I've seen a lot of different products fall to the wayside because of lack of sells among other things. Those candy cigarettes made a come back and I knew it wouldn't be long before they were pulled.

Yeah, I mean it's not that I miss those extremely but hey why can't we be cool with candy lol.

 

[visibleghost]

i'm learning about computer supported cooperative work and learned the term "Groupware", software that support working in groups apparently. it's not a very interesting term but whatever

 

[-Blue-]

I learned this a long time ago, but I figured someone might find it cool. Anyway the United States military bought 30-40 camels overseas to help with expeditions in the deserts of the mid-west. There was an official camel cavalry corp that lasted from the 1830s to late 1860s where they were then released in the wild. Sightings of camels had been reported up to 1940s. It's unlikely that their offspring roam the deserts still and more likely that they died off.

 

[Shiny Shiny Engine]

My tomica world (tomy) james from thomas has weights in it, and i took out the middle wheel to make it a bit more accurate, so first mod! heck yea!

 

[Kitsuragi]

i learned that other accountants always use hard to read text on their emails. please just send me my statement and leave the bright red calligraphy font out D:

 

[Holla]

I recently learned that you can use a GameCube with a Gameboy Player combined with a Gameboy Advance and Gamecube to Gambeboy Advance cable to play Gameboy Advance Titles on your TV while using the Gameboy Advance as your controller.

Normally with the Gameboy Player you can play GBA titles on your TV but you have to use a Gamecube controller. With a GBA hooked up via the cable it's a much more authentic way to play GBA on the big screen.

 

[ZeldaCrossing64]

Yesterday in History class I found out why Louisiana's captial has a French name rather than an English one. (Baton Rouge, which directly translates to Red Stick.) It has something to do with the war between the French and the British (don't ask me which war, because I don't know). Okay, so I wasn't paying attention in class that time so I don't know the details, but I told my brother anyway and he said something about Napoleon selling Louisiana to help fund his war (?). I'm not much of a history nerd, but I find this fact interesting regardless. XD

 

[xSuperMario64x]

Yesterday in History class I found out why Louisiana's captial has a French name rather than an English one. (Baton Rouge, which directly translates to Red Stick.) It has something to do with the war between the French and the British (don't ask me which war, because I don't know). Okay, so I wasn't paying attention in class that time so I don't know the details, but I told my brother anyway and he said something about Napoleon selling Louisiana to help fund his war (?). I'm not much of a history nerd, but I find this fact interesting regardless. XD

yes, Louisiana was a huge piece of French territory which Thomas Jefferson bought from France in 1803 for like, very little money lol. it's very likely that Napoleon was willing to sell it in order to fund his impeding war with Great Britain (the Seven Year War).

I just learned why my bottle of buspirone says "check with your doctor before including grapefruit or grapefruit juice in your diet." it's because anti-anxiety meds like Buspar and Zoloft cause dizziness and drowsiness when combined with grapefruit. luckily I don't like grapefruit so I don't have to worry about that lol.

 

[Croconaw]

I figured this out a few hours ago! You know how you can’t see people’s signatures on mobile in portrait lock? Well, the signatures actually appear if you minimize the text to 75%. (The default is 85% on iPhone.)

Spoiler: at 85% with no signatures

Spoiler: at 75% with signatures

I will keep mine at 85%, though. It’s just what I’m used to. I’ll rotate to see signatures if I really feel the need to see them.

 

[ZeldaCrossing64]

TIL that there is a forum on ZeldaDungeon.net with a layout uncannily similar to this one. Here are my theories:

-The forums are made by the same people (doubt)
-The people who made the Zelda forum copied the layout of this one (possible)
-I guess forums have a sort of base/general layout? (seems pretty sensible to me)

The Zelda forum only has about 6k members, which is... Pretty miniscule compared to this site's 123k members. ;w; I have yet to check it out, though!

 

[Croconaw]

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Most forums to my knowledge use vbulletin. I like seeing active forums, so I’m actually going to check this one out. I highly doubt I’ll join, but I just want to take a look.

 

[Alienfish]

I just learned why my bottle of buspirone says "check with your doctor before including grapefruit or grapefruit juice in your diet." it's because anti-anxiety meds like Buspar and Zoloft cause dizziness and drowsiness when combined with grapefruit. luckily I don't like grapefruit so I don't have to worry about that lol.

Yep, grapefruit is an universal meds mess-up. It's basically a no-no with eg. birth control pills as well.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

TIL that there is a forum on ZeldaDungeon.net with a layout uncannily similar to this one. Here are my theories:

-The forums are made by the same people (doubt)
-The people who made the Zelda forum copied the layout of this one (possible)
-I guess forums have a sort of base/general layout? (seems pretty sensible to me)

The Zelda forum only has about 6k members, which is... Pretty miniscule compared to this site's 123k members. ;w; I have yet to check it out, though!

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The Bell Tree Forums and Zelda Dungeon both use XenForo as their forum software, that's why they're similar in layout :3

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Yep, grapefruit is an universal meds mess-up. It's basically a no-no with eg. birth control pills as well.

i always knew that grapefruit sucked lmao

 

[Disneyfangirl23]

I learned that you can get Shiny Starters in some Pokemon games so I’m going start them games again when I’m ready to play them but first I’ll play Shining Pearl because I’m getting it Tuesday

 

[xSuperMario64x]

while looking up the Awoofy enemy from the new Kirby game I made the unexpected but pleasant discovery that Kirby is in fact a non-binary icon

 

[savanniebananie]

That the production of pennies in Canada ceased in 2012? Not sure if that's true, but if it is. . . cool.