What did you learn today TIL

[ChirpingGirl]

This is what you guys get: 

And that's all I need to do.

Maybe some of this:     Definitely would get our attention. 

Reading these insane replies does not put CJ in the mood for flashing.

[watcher1]

That 85% of the people struck by lightning are men. And most people struck by lightning are struck between 1 and 4 in the afternoon.

[watcher1]

That wombats poop in squares!  The burrowing Australian marsupials are the only animals to produce cube-shaped poop, according to National Geographic scientists. They believe it might help mark their territory or it may be because of the extreme lack of water in their living conditions, which result in rigid, dry cube shapes.

[_priapism]

That wombats poop in squares!  The burrowing Australian marsupials are the only animals to produce cube-shaped poop, according to National Geographic scientists. They believe it might help mark their territory or it may be because of the extreme lack of water in their living conditions, which result in rigid, dry cube shapes.

https://ascienceenthusiast.com/scientists-discover-the-reason-why-wombats-poop-is-cube-shaped/

[Jed_]

Spongebat squareshit?

[watcher1]

Spongebat squareshit?

LOL  WOO!  But now I will look at SpongeBob SquarePants and think Spongebat Squareshit.

[msslave]

In the original draft of FDRs famous address to Congress, after the Pearl Harbor attack read as this:

" ...a date which will live in world history."

The draft shows Roosevelt crossed out world history and above that wrote "infamy."

We still remember Pearl Harbor and those chilling words.

[_priapism]

In the original draft of FDRs famous address to Congress, after the Pearl Harbor attack read as this:

" ...a date which will live in world history."

The draft shows Roosevelt crossed out world history and above that wrote "infamy."

We still remember Pearl Harbor and those chilling words.

Amazing what an articulate leader is capable of inspiring.

Meanwhile, we have... 

But for the most part, you have many states where they have so much water that it comes down—it’s called rain—that they don’t know, they don’t know what to do with it.

[ObiDongKenobi]

In the original draft of FDRs famous address to Congress, after the Pearl Harbor attack read as this:

" ...a date which will live in world history."

The draft shows Roosevelt crossed out world history and above that wrote "infamy."

We still remember Pearl Harbor and those chilling words.

Amazing what an articulate leader is capable of inspiring.

Meanwhile, we have...  

But for the most part, you have many states where they have so much water that it comes down—it’s called rain—that they don’t know, they don’t know what to do with it.

It seems that neither side of the Atlantic has had any great statesmen or great orators for a while now

Post edit post ; sorry should have said statesmen or stateswomen

[msslave]

So true, Obi, and so sad.

I once read Winston Churchill, when he wrote a speech would pen two or three hours worth. Then he'd go to work editing 'til it was down to 15 or 20 minutes.

[Jed_]

In the original draft of FDRs famous address to Congress, after the Pearl Harbor attack read as this:

" ...a date which will live in world history."

The draft shows Roosevelt crossed out world history and above that wrote "infamy."

We still remember Pearl Harbor and those chilling words.

I once had a biochemistry professor by the name of Yoshinori Takeda.  Towards the end of the semester he changed the date of the final announcing in an ominous tone with a thick Japanese accent, ‘the new date for the final will be December 7.’  I began laughing so hard I was choking.  I then muttered, ‘a date which will live in infamy.’  Only a couple people in the 70+ student class got it and laughed too.

[msslave]

Funny Jed...class cut  up.

During the O. J. Simpson trial I read a piece on Judge Ito.  In college, on Dec. 7th, he'd don a leather pilots cap and run up and down the halls of his dorm yelling, "Bonsai, bonsai!"

[ChirpingGirl]

In home alone, when Kevin says his brothers girlfriend is a "woof". The picture is not even a girl, it's a boy dressed up as a girl because they thought it would be harsh to make fun of a girl like that. But not of a boy dressed up as a girl being called ugly. 

[_priapism]

[watcher1]

It seems that neither side of the Atlantic has had any great statesmen or great orators for a while now

Post edit post ; sorry should have said statesmen or stateswomen

I don't think we will see many great orators in the future as it seems many politicians are conducting themselves over social media instead of standing up and speaking in front of crowds. Speaking, not reading, from a script.

[ChirpingGirl]

The Town Set For Kingston Falls in Gremlins Is The Same Set Used in Back To The Future.

The movie theater in Kingston Falls that blows up in the movie was involved in another incident….. Marty McFly drove the DeLorean into the entrance at the end of Back to the Future.

[ObiDongKenobi]

That one of my favourite games, Cluedo, is called Clue in the USA.  Without this knowledge one of the references in the film "Knives Out " would have gone right over my head.  Very good film IMHO.

[MintJulie]

There are worms that look like penises.   aka penis fish    and thousands of them washed up on a beach.


https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/14/us/fat-innkeeper-worms-california-beach-scn-trnd/index.html



How can I not include this one

[msslave]

  I have no words.  Dang...even the worms are bigger than me.

Thanks Jules for showing me something else I didn't need to know.

[ChirpingGirl]

There are worms that look like penises.   aka penis fish    and thousands of them washed up on a beach.


https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/14/us/fat-innkeeper-worms-california-beach-scn-trnd/index.html



How can I not include this one

And they all started careers in the porn industry soon after.