TIL: Today I Learned
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Try to act surprised when it happens. I hear she likes that.
I'm more concerned about what the hell you're doing to that fruit...
TIL- this as well.
TIL how to use the windowed mode version of calculator in Win8.1
It only took 30 minutes of Google Fu to find it.
It only took 30 minutes of Google Fu to find it.
TIL: r/theocho
It's a subreddit for videos of championships in such things as RC truck racing, kung fu volleyball, and Medieval combat.
It's a subreddit for videos of championships in such things as RC truck racing, kung fu volleyball, and Medieval combat.
Please tell me someone is named "Cotton".
TIL Fred Armisen (SNL/Portlandia) was the drummer for a punk rock band that put out albums and toured.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenchmouth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenchmouth
TIL: Shark heaven and scuba diver hell are the same place.
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You know he's still the drummer for Seth Meyer's Late Show band.
As a youngster in the 1990s, I received, as a gift, a toy robot dinosaur. It was pretty cool. I put all the pieces together, slapped a couple of batteries in it, and it would walk around and roar and the gun turrets on its chest would spin. Then, over the course of my family's many moves, the toy robot was thrown away and forgotten.
Today I randomly looked it up, and found that it was a King Gojulas from the Zoids series of robot toys. And, apparently, it's quite sought after these days.
So, basically, today I learned that I used to own an awesome vintage toy, and did not know its true value, and threw it away.
Today I randomly looked it up, and found that it was a King Gojulas from the Zoids series of robot toys. And, apparently, it's quite sought after these days.
So, basically, today I learned that I used to own an awesome vintage toy, and did not know its true value, and threw it away.
Which is why it is now sought after and worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it.
Your memories of your fun is worth more than anyone could pay you for that toy anyway.
TIL the "bigger blacker box" (cards against humanity) has a hidden card under the lid
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TIL that when Martin made a custom guitar for Joan Baez the luthier wrote, "Too bad you're a communist" inside the guitar. She never knew this until Martin approached her to replicate her guitar model for limited replica release. Now, all the replicas (59 signed and numbered) have that written in them. That luthier didn't like her politics, but still did his job and made a beautiful instrument albeit with a bit of a protest of his own.
TIL about the Manchineel, the world's deadliest tree*
Looks like a great place to rest, huh? Well, you shouldn't. All parts of this tree are harmful. It has a milky-white sap that is so caustic it can cause chemical burns, strip paint off cars, and even cause blisters if you happen to be standing under the tree during a rain storm. Burning the wood releases a toxic smoke that can damage your eyes. If you eat one of the apples it produces, there is a good chance you will die.
Certain American Indians, native to Florida used to use the sap to poison their arrows. They used these arrows to kill Ponce De Leon. There are also tales of those same tribes tying prisoners to the tree trunks as a form of torture or painful execution.
Many places where the tree is native, the locals have marked them with either warning signs, a red X on the trunk, or a red band around the trunk.
* - to humans
Looks like a great place to rest, huh? Well, you shouldn't. All parts of this tree are harmful. It has a milky-white sap that is so caustic it can cause chemical burns, strip paint off cars, and even cause blisters if you happen to be standing under the tree during a rain storm. Burning the wood releases a toxic smoke that can damage your eyes. If you eat one of the apples it produces, there is a good chance you will die.
Certain American Indians, native to Florida used to use the sap to poison their arrows. They used these arrows to kill Ponce De Leon. There are also tales of those same tribes tying prisoners to the tree trunks as a form of torture or painful execution.
Many places where the tree is native, the locals have marked them with either warning signs, a red X on the trunk, or a red band around the trunk.
* - to humans
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GasBandit
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Oh yeah, man. N64 had pixels the size of cats. It was ridiculous.
'Swhy I'm glad my uncle found me a standard def.
Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to love chestnuts so badly. All the christmas songs my grandparents loved, and all the old holiday specials and christmas books I had talked about them.
But every time I've tried them (which didn't happen until my 30's), they've utterly sucked. The pre-shelled and packaged variety were spongy, watery and weird tasting. Every time I've tried, I think to myself "surely this can't be what all the hoopla is about."
It's not.
Those crappy chestnuts prepacked and vacuum sealed in the grocery store aren't the chestnut that all of those songs are about--they're asian chestnuts. In the early 1900's, a blight started wiping out the American chestnut, destroying billions of trees. The roots are partially resistant to the blight, so the American chestnut still exists in some places as root systems, but every time a shoot sprouts up from these ancient root systems to form a tree, the blight gets it.
Efforts to breed or inoculate American chestnuts to resist the blight are underway. Maybe some day in my life time, I'll taste a real roasted American chestnut.
That said, I couldn't resist buying a bag of chestnuts in the shell (as opposed to those pre-packed, pre-shelled, variety) from the produce section today, in the hopes that roasting them will produce something orders of magnitude better than that prepackaged crap.
They're ostensibly Italian chestnuts...but it's hard to know for sure, as the Italian chestnut harvest has been decimated by a Chinese chestnut wasp. Impostor asian chestnuts have flooded that market, masquerading as Italian chestnuts.
But every time I've tried them (which didn't happen until my 30's), they've utterly sucked. The pre-shelled and packaged variety were spongy, watery and weird tasting. Every time I've tried, I think to myself "surely this can't be what all the hoopla is about."
It's not.
Those crappy chestnuts prepacked and vacuum sealed in the grocery store aren't the chestnut that all of those songs are about--they're asian chestnuts. In the early 1900's, a blight started wiping out the American chestnut, destroying billions of trees. The roots are partially resistant to the blight, so the American chestnut still exists in some places as root systems, but every time a shoot sprouts up from these ancient root systems to form a tree, the blight gets it.
Efforts to breed or inoculate American chestnuts to resist the blight are underway. Maybe some day in my life time, I'll taste a real roasted American chestnut.
That said, I couldn't resist buying a bag of chestnuts in the shell (as opposed to those pre-packed, pre-shelled, variety) from the produce section today, in the hopes that roasting them will produce something orders of magnitude better than that prepackaged crap.
They're ostensibly Italian chestnuts...but it's hard to know for sure, as the Italian chestnut harvest has been decimated by a Chinese chestnut wasp. Impostor asian chestnuts have flooded that market, masquerading as Italian chestnuts.
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Hazelnuts my friend. Hazelnuts are where it's at.
I'm not a fan of hazelnut flavorings for coffee, or those ferro rocher hazelnut candies. I'm a bit reluctant to try them as a stand-alone nut.