Today I Learned that when dogs drink they use their tongue like a ladle.
So far so unsurprising except, they drink back-to-front, they slurp up water underneath their tongue.
What did YOU learn today?
Not that, I've known it for some time. Don't think I learnt anything new today so hopefully by checking other peoples replies I'll spot something I dont know.
Today I learnt it is easier to cut a length of 5mm ply in a straight line with a tenon saw than with a 190mm circular saw (with a 40t blade to avoid massacring the ply).
... that it takes around 72 hrs for a fairly old man to recover from lugging a washing machine up a spiral staircase
Today I learnt the song Superstition by Stevie Wonder was originally written for (and in collaboration with) Jeff Beck with the intention for Beck to use as single for his new band (as part of an agreement to get Beck to play Wonder's record).
However when someone at Stevie Wonder's record company heard the demo they insisted on releasing as a Stevie Wonder single first and it became a huge hit (and the version by Jeff Beck's Band didn't).
I also saw a video today which advised that when you cut a loaf of bread you should first turn it upside down to help prevent having slices that are thicker at the bottom.
I may try this as my bread cutting skills arn't always the greatest, but suspect as with many other so called 'Life hacks' it will turn out to be bollards.
Today I learned that since 1970, there has only been one UK prime minister who both began and ended their premiership with a general election. That was Edward Heath
Every other PM either began or ended their time in office mid-term.
I also saw a video today which advised that when you cut a loaf of bread you should first turn it upside down to help prevent having slices that are thicker at the bottom.
I also saw a video today which advised that when you cut a loaf of bread you should first turn it upside down to help prevent having slices that are thicker at the bottom.
I may try this as my bread cutting skills arn't always the greatest, but suspect as with many other so called 'Life hacks' it will turn out to be bollards.
I think it's downward pressure compressing the loaf which causes non-uniform thickness. Try reducing downward pressure and let the knife cut rather than forcing it through. Just like sawing wood, especially if it's a hard-crust sour-dough.
Yesterday, I met up with a cousin who I hadn’t seen for roughly sixty years, along with his wife, who I’d never met. He doesn’t use any social media, it’s her I’ve been talking to on Messenger, and it seems I’ve got three second cousins, their children, and seven third cousins, their grandchildren!
There’s a lot about my Family History that I’ve learned over the last year, including the fact my dad was born in a different village to the one I thought he’d been born in, and my granddad and great granddad had both worked in a papermill in the same tiny village, and one had also worked in a brewery in the same village! Explains my appreciation for fine beer! 😄
Today I learned that the small upgrade cost to First Class was definitely worth it. Sausage cob, unlimited coffee flavour drink, and a couple of granola bars and bottles of water to see me through till Paris
The bread slicing 'hack' reminds me of the pizza eating one. Eat your pizza with the slice upside down so the topping is on your tongue and the base on the roof of your mouth. That way you taste the topping properly rather than tasting the base.
That the Great Fire of London started on Pudding Lane (I already knew this) and ended in Pye Corner (new information as far as I'm concerned).
Golden Boy of Pye Corner - Wikipedia
The bread slicing 'hack' reminds me of the pizza eating one. Eat your pizza with the slice upside down so the topping is on your tongue and the base on the roof of your mouth. That way you taste the topping properly rather than tasting the base.
pressumably from someone who inhales their food, rather than chewing it?
Today I learnt you should always use the word learned instead of learnt because learnt rhymes with burnt and nobody likes burnt cookies.
If you like the dog drinking fact, you will love learning about their noses. They breath in through the hole at the front, and out through the slit along the side. This way, their exhaled breath does not disturb the scent in front of them.
Depending on the make an model of dog*, you can actually see/feel this in action. Its very clear with my spaniel, you can feel the breath coming out of the side of her nose.
*probably won't work on French bulldog or pug.
I learned that Steve Reed Secretary of state for housing, in his last job was the secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs, who now wants a 'New town' built on greenbelt in Adlington, Cheshire, comprising of 7 working farms, an abundance of wildlife, ancient wood land, established hedges and huge swathes of green countryside.
Lemurs have two tongues.
Today I learnt you should always use the word learned instead of learnt because learnt rhymes with burnt and nobody likes burnt cookies.
As a general rule of thumb, -t is British English and -ed American English. Though both are considered acceptable in both territories so it doesn't really matter.
Why Master Cougar, you are a learned* young man.
pronounced "Learn Ed"
I learned that Singletrackworld doesnt use cloudflare.
At least not one of the services which is down as part of the global outage.
Today I learnt you should always use the word learned instead of learnt because learnt rhymes with burnt and nobody likes burnt cookies.
Failed on the first chance to implement your new learning 🙂
Failed on the first chance to implement your new learning
Ah shite, so did I in the OP title. That's annoying.
I learned that Singletrackworld doesnt use cloudflare.
At least not one of the services which is down as part of the global outage.
Looks like Down Detector does though, which is why it's down. Question is, what detects of Down Detector is down?
If the world’s families have one child on average, the global population would fall from 8bn to 1bn in three generations (75 years), to 125m in six generations, and to just 8m people in ten generations.
Looks like Down Detector does though, which is why it's down. Question is, what detects of Down Detector is down?
I'll be coming to you
when you cut a loaf of bread you should first turn it upside down to help prevent having slices that are thicker at the bottom
You then get slices that are thicker at the top, which meets the objective.
You know Piccadilly Circus in that London? The origin of it is a bit surprising.
Piccadilly does not sound like the most English of words. So how did it come to be the centre of London? Truth be told, it really isn't an English word, but that is all part of the tale I am about to tell.
The history of this very busy street/circus all goes back to a tailor in the 17th century. Yes, we owe it to fashion. Robert Baker was a tailor living on Portugal Street, as it was then called, who specialized in making lace collars known as picadills or picadillies, which were all the rage. His mansion, which he bought with the massive wealth he acquired from selling these frills, was known as Pickadilly Hall. By 1743 the name stuck and Piccadilly came to be.
Failed on the first chance to implement your new learning 🙂
Deliberate, nobody tells me what to do 😉
Today I learnt you can adjust how tight to the frame a PVC door locks by loosening two screws, moving the latch plate, and tightening the two screws back up.
Took two minutes.
But taken four winters of us complaining about cold drafts, the inlaws to send a tradesmen round to get a quote for a replacement door, and the tradesman to tell us it can be adjusted (but not doing it or telling us how).
...that the University of Rhode Island will pay me $2 to participate in a housing study.
...what Hyrox means. 🤢
Today I learnt you can adjust how tight to the frame a PVC door locks by loosening two screws, moving the latch plate, and tightening the two screws back up.
Took two minutes.
IME that's one of those where adjustment of the correct screw is a two minute job, and adjustment of the wrong one is like Father Ted tapping the dent out of their car.
Today I learned that the small upgrade cost to First Class was definitely worth it. Sausage cob, unlimited coffee flavour drink, and a couple of granola bars and bottles of water to see me through till Paris
I had to read that few times before I realised you weren't talking about stamps - thinking 'this doesn't really sound like a list of things you want to put in an envelope'
Today I learnt you can adjust how tight to the frame a PVC door locks by loosening two screws, moving the latch plate, and tightening the two screws back up.
Took two minutes.
IME that's one of those where adjustment of the correct screw is a two minute job, and adjustment of the wrong one is like Father Ted tapping the dent out of their car.
Wait until you find the cam on the windows that closes them more...
íYou know Piccadilly Circus in that London? The origin of it is a bit surprising.
Piccadilly does not sound like the most English of words. So how did it come to be the centre of London? Truth be told, it really isn't an English word, but that is all part of the tale I am about to tell.
The history of this very busy street/circus all goes back to a tailor in the 17th century. Yes, we owe it to fashion. Robert Baker was a tailor living on Portugal Street, as it was then called, who specialized in making lace collars known as picadills or picadillies, which were all the rage. His mansion, which he bought with the massive wealth he acquired from selling these frills, was known as Pickadilly Hall. By 1743 the name stuck and Piccadilly came to be.
You should read about how Nelson Mandela Place came to be in Glasgow. Possible the finest decision by any council anywhere.
Today I learned that the source of the 'I want my MTV' but at the beginning of Money For Nothing came from an MTV campaign to get it pushed into big cities when it was only available in small cable TV reliant towns in the States.
Today I learned that you can spend a day mooching around Paris and not get a single whiff of cannabis. They still smoke proper cigarettes over here.
A new term.
Phubbing aka phone snubbing.
Fiddling with your phone while in company you should be socialising with.
TIL Covid can cause brain damage where the sufferer can drive and not remember any of the journey or turns up in completely the wrong place. We can add that to phone use and dementia as things to worry about.
According to The Guardian website I am one of their top readers worldwide.
If the world’s families have one child on average, the global population would fall from 8bn to 1bn in three generations (75 years), to 125m in six generations, and to just 8m people in ten generations.
interestingly it came up in conversation today that 75% of the kids in my colleague’s son’s primary school (in south glasgow)are from families with only one child
I think South Korea is facing pretty stark birth rate declines at the moment
I guess we’ve moved from an era where you couldn’t afford not to have children - because you needed them to work - to being able to afford them because only one parent needed to work to not being able to afford to have them even if both parents are working
my gran had 20 grandchildren, my mum has 2 I’ll have non
my gran had 20 grandchildren
I wonder idly whether there's more at play here. Infant mortality was much more of a thing 'back then' than it is today so there was compelling reason to have multiple kids in the hope that some might make it to puberty. Plus factor in religion: banning contraception (and masturbation) in favour of abstention is only ever going to end one way, by design.
Yeah, my grandmothers had 4 and 22 grandchildren respectively. Guess which one lived in Ireland
my gran had 20 grandchildren
I wonder idly whether there's more at play here. Infant mortality was much more of a thing 'back then'
Are you saying that maccruiskeen lived in Ye Olden Days?
I'm suggesting that his past-tense gran probably did.
I'm suggesting that his past-tense gran probably did.
I'm guessing that he's not significantly older than me, maybe even younger - infant mortality wasn't an issue for my grandparents' generation. My parents don't tell tales of their siblings lost in toddler-hood.
If my gran was alive today she'd probably be over 100. Off the top of my head I recall seeing a lot of infant graves dated around the turn of C19. Penicillin being widespread wasn't until WWII time wasn't it?
🤷♂️ I could be wrong, just thinking out loud really.
Today I learned that typing can count as thinking "out loud".
Possibly just sharing thoughts that you haven't really validated in your mind before sharing 🙂
Silly but it also reminds me of a sign in our school library "No Children Aloud"
Today I learned that typing can count as thinking "out loud".
You'd understand if you heard my keyboard.
My grandparents on one side were both one of 14. They would be 110 if alive today. The other side were one of 6 and one of three
My parents were both one of three
I and both sets of cousins are sets of two.
I have two kids, my sister has none, one cousin has two kids and the other two cousins have none.
I guess my grandparents generation got enough food to survive ( there was a lot of vegetable soup chat when asked about growing up), medicine but no contraception.
I do wonder at what point teachers are going to start getting made redundant on mass. But then so many people leave the job in the first few years.
...that blue zones (Okinawa, Sardinia), where people are believed to live longer (over 100) due to their diet is more likely due to deaths not being reported so that families can continue to collect social security payments..
Today I Learned...
... that the line in The Kinks classic referencing Cherry Cola was originally Coca-Cola (and I believe is exactly this on the album version). It was changed for the single because the BBC wouldn't allow advertising and their mention of Coke was considered product placement.
Continuing the fizzy drinks theme - I always thought that squeezing a half-finished bottle of carbonated drink created pressure preserving the fizz, but apparently the pressure causes the gas to be drawn out of the fluid, flattening the drink more quickly. I haven't tested this in laboratory conditions but the person who enlightened me knows his chemistry.
I don't really drink fizzy drinks often, mostly tonic water.
I learned today that you can open and navigate .stl files in Apple Preview. Downloaded some 3d models of tree pollen from the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases 'NIH 3D' website (something that the Trump/RFK administration seemingly hasn't found and deleted yet) - clicked on the file expecting something like sketchup or Meshlab to open it and Preview opened it instead and lets me spin the models around and fly through them
I also learned to can take the stone out of an avocado without doing a Meryl Streep and stabbing yourself in the hand
Continuing the fizzy drinks theme - I always thought that squeezing a half-finished bottle of carbonated drink created pressure preserving the fizz, but apparently the pressure causes the gas to be drawn out of the fluid, flattening the drink more quickly. I haven't tested this in laboratory conditions but the person who enlightened me knows his chemistry
You are correct but squeezing the air out of the bottle just gives more volume the gas to escape into as it expands back to the original shape. If you get a fizz keeper and pressurise the bottle it'll remain fizzy longer.
Bottles of tonic water don't last long enough to get flat in this house. 🍸🍸
I had a fizz keeper. Anecdotally, it seemed to make carbonated drinks go flat faster.
...that the actress (Jenette Goldstein) who played John Connor's foster mum in T2 also played Vasquez in aliens.