The "I learned something new today!" Thread

The person who is widely considered the pioneer of the video game cartridge would be 82 years old today! His name was Gerald Lawson.
 
I learned that you can use dental tablets (like the kind for cleaning dentures) to get tea and coffee stains out of mugs. I tried it out today because my favorite mug had picked up a lot of stains from the last kind of tea I bought and it seems like it works.

I filled the mug with water up to the stain line, dropped the tablet in and let it sit for about 30 minutes. I wasn't sure how long to leave it because some sites said 15 minutes and some said hours. I erred on the shorter side for the first time. When I was done, I dumped the liquid out and cleaned the mug with dish soap and a sponge like normal. It took a little bit of hard scrubbing but I got about 75% of the stains out. I'll definitely give it another try and see if I can get them all out later.
 
I don’t know how long this has been a thing, but I just discovered it yesterday.

I discovered that you can change the username of YouTube channel. You couldn’t do that back in 2010. This discovery makes me really happy.
 
Like Energizer, Duracell also has a pink bunny mascot.
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A few days ago, I learned about an instrument called a Hurdy Gurdy. It sounds really cool and it's used in the show Black Sails which has one of my favorite opening theme songs.


 
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Today I learned that both Switzerland's and the amount of people with Swiss ancestry in America is smaller than I thought. There are around 8 million people living in Switzerland and just a little under 1 million Americans have Swiss ancestry. The state with the highest Swiss American population is Utah at 1.28% of the general population. My state Oregon is at fourth with 0.76%. A large chunk of my ancestry is Swiss, so I'm surprised how few there are of us relative to the total American population. I also thought Switzerland had a population around 40 million, not 8 million.
 
LadyDestani said:
I learned that you can use dental tablets (like the kind for cleaning dentures) to get tea and coffee stains out of mugs. I tried it out today because my favorite mug had picked up a lot of stains from the last kind of tea I bought and it seems like it works.

I filled the mug with water up to the stain line, dropped the tablet in and let it sit for about 30 minutes. I wasn't sure how long to leave it because some sites said 15 minutes and some said hours. I erred on the shorter side for the first time. When I was done, I dumped the liquid out and cleaned the mug with dish soap and a sponge like normal. It took a little bit of hard scrubbing but I got about 75% of the stains out. I'll definitely give it another try and see if I can get them all out later.
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Idk how bad ur stains are, but I spray a little vinegar in my cups for tea rings and then scrub them and they come right off. Good to know about denture cleaning tablets. Never thought about it!
 
I learned about the whole MOVE debacle and how the Pennsylvanian police force bombed a house to snuff out the terroist cult group, but ended up burning down around 130 homes essentially making many homeless. It's really weird that this isn't talked about at all. I live so close and I've never heard it.
 
I knew that the rival in Pokemon Yellow started with an Eevee, but I just learned that what his Eevee evolves into depends on how you do in the first two rival battles against him. If you win both battles, he gets Jolteon. If you win the first battle but lose the second on Route 22, he gets Flareon. And if you lose the first battle, he gets Vaporeon.
 
@BrokenSanity I don't want to show pictures of them because it may break the rules, (mild nudity sometimes) but the ideal female in Roman times was really your average female. Just Google Roman woman/ideal sculptures/statues. The standards today are really new. Not even a 100 years old.
 
I learned that the mascot of the place I work at is non-binary so the person dressing up is not allowed to talk, I guess so kids cannot differentiate “boy and girl.” I won’t mention the name, though, because it’s a local franchise.
 
xara said:
• avocados and peppers aren’t vegetables - they’re fruits. berries, to be exact.
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I know this is super old but I was just browsing this thread and stumbled upon your post, did you know it's possible for something to be a fruit and a vegetable at the same time? because fruits are an actual like scientific classification, whereas what defines a vegetable is not scientific and is instead a cultural thing that varies by region 😁
 
xSuperMario64x said:
I know this is super old but I was just browsing this thread and stumbled upon your post, did you know it's possible for something to be a fruit and a vegetable at the same time? because fruits are an actual like scientific classification, whereas what defines a vegetable is not scientific and is instead a cultural thing that varies by region 😁
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Nuts are scientifically fruits as well!
 
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