The "I learned something new today!" Thread

[nightglow]

"Pill bugs, also known as roly-polies, potato bugs, or woodlice, can remove heavy metals like lead, arsenic, cadmium, copper, and zinc from soil. These metals crystallize in their midgut, preventing them from leaching into groundwater. This allows pill bugs to live in contaminated soil where other species cannot."
Who knew. I kind of ran into this information because I saw a random post on Facebook of someone selling basically selectively bred roly polies that had crazy colors. It sounds like they are best for a terrarium that doesn't have anything in it to eat these bugs.
I assume the ad showed up because I'm starting to look into live food cultures for fish out of curiosity.

 

[pottercrossing]

I learned that you can use a keyboard as an alternative to a pendulum board, which is great because I don't have the ability to make/buy my own.

 

[QueenCobra]

Last night I was playing a trivia game and one of the answers was that Roseanne was the first sitcom to feature a gay wedding. However, this morning, I did some digging and found the actual one was Roc. Roc was a three-season sitcom on Fox, and the main cast were all successful stage actors. This was back in 1991, while the Roseanne gay wedding wasn't until 1995.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

I learned that Doritos has MSG in it haha.

I don't mind that at all, a little dash of MSG makes a lot of things taste better I just know that some companies are proudly like "NO MSG" so I was a bit surprised to see it in the ingredient list on Doritos.

 

[Croconaw]

I learned that Disney World actually sells cigarettes. They are hidden under the counter away from children. I'm a non-smoker and don't care, but I overheard a conversation at the smoking area and I thought it was interesting.