Lets have those little snippets of information that make you go "Oooooooh.... I didn't know that" The more pointless the better please. Extra points for being completely random. I'll start.
Did you know that the average wage for an employee of the Greek National Railway was, until recently, 60,000 euro's a year.
For some reason they don't any more. Don't know why not....
that yeti might be pregnant
You can tell if an egg is boiled or raw by spining it like a top - a raw egg falls over, a hard boiled one spins away
On Google maps, if you drag and drop the little 'street view' man into Legoland in California, he turns into a Lego minifig.
Proper made my morning, that has.
On Google maps, if you drag and drop the little 'street view' man into Legoland in California, he turns into a Lego minifig.
Awesome.
Also google "tilt" and "do a barrel roll".
Today, I spotted that the correct thread title would have read;
"Every day's a school day."
That the lumps in my neck are my lymph nodes, that they've swollen up because it was a virus has seen me confined to my bed for half the week and that they bloody hurt when I shave.
After getting a soaking on my commute it will take roughly 8 hours for my merino socks to dry and they will give off a smell not unlike a wet dog! 
The Swiss developed a ground attack fighter aircraft called the FFA P-16
Not very good, but the design was taken by a group of Americans and converted to become the Learjet. One of these Americans was called Bill Lear. He invented the 8 track cartridge system and the first car radio. They came up with Motorola as the name for the radio, which was so popular he and his partner founded a company with that name.
He also developed a closed circuit steam turbine engine to power cars and buses, and modified a car to run on it.
That's quite a lot for one day.
My sister in law is a ****
Cougar & RealMan you've collectively just made my day 
I found out these existed;
quick dry shoes and socks 
Today I learnt that pro2 hubs drive you insane whilst walking the last mile home with a puncture.
Click click click click click click click click click
dogs can't look up.
dogs can't look up.
Interesting, ours regularly watch planes and birds in the sky.
I learnt to proof documents before I let a colleague send them for a print run of 2000.
That Herge was a racist but never realised as I was a child and didn't understand it was racist or what racism was for that matter!
Interesting, our regulalry watch plains and birds in the sky.I learnt to proof documents before I let a colleague send them for a print run of 2000
That the best cartoon ever is now on youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY55uXxbWUs
3m spraymount is not what it was and is not compatible with the foam mount board the woman in the shop said it was.
lesson of the day. prepare in advance. not half an hour before you need it.
question of the day. why, after all these years, can i still not learn this?
On Google maps, if you drag and drop the little 'street view' man into Legoland in California, he turns into a Lego minifig.Proper made my morning, that has.
Proper rad that (but i'm easily pleased..)
Google the word Recursion and Google will ask you "Did you mean Recursion?"
very clever
That Herge was a racist but never realised as I was a child and didn't understand it was racist or what racism was for that matter!
I learnt not to mix Hegre with Herge when googling for art.
Also:
Go to Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, California, the Google Street View's production team can be seen from streetview
Most of my office got put on notice today and if we do survive the new office is going to freakin miles away!
In this situation, I don't think my niche skill will help me
.;-(
After years of bread eating, I think I've got a mild gluten intolerance.
Or hypochondria.
I learnt not to mix Hegre with Herge when googling for art.
Nice... 
I have learnt today that the video I made, that I thought was really good! Is actually quite bad.
That's it's not illegal to make you work in a basement with no windows 
You can tell if an egg is boiled or raw by spining it like a top - a raw egg falls over, a hard boiled one spins away
You are confusing eggs with the film Inception.
dogs can't look up.
True. I've never seen a dog with a dictionary.
That the complexities involved in comparing mobile phone tariffs need a qualification in quantum mechanics to be fully understood.
That I have a 17" collar.
How buying 72 cans of Stella from Asda for £40 feels
Someone falling 5 floors in an internal atrium in an office is quite distressing.
Jesus aP - did that happen in your office? That must be awful!
<tinfoil hat on>
..that the US government can obtain data from US owned datacentres, even if the data owners are European and the datacentre is in Europe.
AND that the power to do this comes from US anti-terrorism legislation which has implicit gagging orders so the owners of the data will never vbe told that the data is being made available outside the country of origin/storage/ownership
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