What did you learn today TIL

[MintJulie]

Whore baths only go so far.

At first I thought you spelled it wrong. I've never heard of such a thing.  I had to google it.


Google response

Whore Bath: A quick sponge bath by hand, using a wet washcloth or a pre-moistened towelette, to extend the interval between showers or clean up after casual sexual intercourse.

[msslave]

Yep... quick way to get ready for the next customer.

That's always the "trick towel". Doubt if anyone else here has heard that one.   

[ObiDongKenobi]

Yep... quick way to get ready for the next customer.

That's always the "trick towel". Doubt if anyone else here has heard that one.   

Not me 

[msslave]

I still have a lot of "street" left in me, just under the surface. Sometimes it doesn't take much to trigger me and the filters fall away.

[Pornhubby]

TIL that quicksand—that is, sand that behaves as a liquid because it is saturated with water—can be a mucky nuisance, but it’s basically impossible to die in the way that is depicted in movies. That’s because quicksand is denser than the human body. People and animals can get stuck in it, but they don’t get sucked down to the bottom—they float on the surface. Our legs are pretty dense, so they may sink, but the torso contains the lungs, and thus is buoyant enough to stay out of trouble.

https://www.britannica.com/story/how-deadly-is-quicksand

[MintJulie]

TIL that quicksand—that is, sand that behaves as a liquid because it is saturated with water—can be a mucky nuisance, but it’s basically impossible to die in the way that is depicted in movies. That’s because quicksand is denser than the human body. People and animals can get stuck in it, but they don’t get sucked down to the bottom—they float on the surface. Our legs are pretty dense, so they may sink, but the torso contains the lungs, and thus is buoyant enough to stay out of trouble.

https://www.britannica.com/story/how-deadly-is-quicksand

First thing that comes to mind.....I've always wanted to take a mud bath. 
Thanks for the quicksand tidbit of information.  One less thing to worry about while out hiking. 

[Pornhubby]

TIL: “An army marches on its stomach,” Napoleon is supposed to have said. But unfortunately for the armies of his time, the food available to the stomachs of those hungry soldiers was neither appetizing nor nutritious--consisting primarily of hard bread and salted meat. Napoleon wanted to better feed his army, so he offered a prize of 12,000 francs to anyone who could invent a better way to store and preserve food.

The chef Nicolas Appert rose to the challenge. After years of trial and error he eventually perfected a method of putting food in jars and then submerging the jars in boiling water to preserve the food and seal the jars. In other words, he invented canning.

Appert won the prize and the fame that came with it. The process he invented is essentially the same process we still use today.

Appert is still celebrated and well-known in France (where "canning" is called "appertization"), but he has faded into obscurity in the rest of the world, despite being responsible for one of humanity's most important inventions.

Today is the birthday of Nicolas Appert. He was born on November 17, 1749.

[Pornhubby]

TIL: There was a time when almost every rural British family who kept bees followed a strange tradition.

Whenever there was a death in the family, someone had to go out to the hives and “tell the bees” of the terrible loss that had befallen the family.

Failing to do so often resulted in further losses such as the bees leaving the hive, or not producing enough honey or even dying.

Traditionally, the bees were kept abreast of not only deaths but all important family matters including births, marriages, and long absence due to journeys. If the bees were not told, all sorts of calamities were thought to happen. This peculiar custom is known as “telling the bees”.

The practice of telling the bees may have its origins in Celtic mythology that held that bees were the link between our world and the spirit world. So if you had any message that you wished to pass to someone who was dead, all you had to do was tell the bees and they would pass along the message.

The typical way to tell the bees was for the head of the household, or “goodwife of the house” to go out to the hives, knock gently to get the attention of the bees, and then softly murmur in a doleful tune the solemn news.

Little rhymes developed over the centuries specific to a particular region. In Nottinghamshire, the wife of the dead was heard singing quietly in front of the hive,

“The master's dead, but don't you go; Your mistress will be a good mistress to you.”

In Germany, a similar couplet was heard,

“Little bee, our lord is dead; Leave me not in my distress”.

But the relationship between bees and humans goes beyond superstition. It’s a fact, that bees help humans survive. 70 of the top 100 crop species that feed 90% of the human population rely on bees for pollination.

Without them, these plants would cease to exist and with it all animals that eat those plants. This can have a cascading effect that would ripple catastrophically up the food chain.

Losing a beehive is much worse than losing a supply of honey. The consequences are life threatening.

The act of telling the bees emphasizes this deep connection humans share with the insect.

[msslave]

The fact that the bee population is rapidly declining should be a danger sign to us all. Pesticides and loss of habitat are two big factors. It's time we listened to the bees.

Thanks Toe. That's a WOO.

[MissBarbara]

The fact that the bee population is rapidly declining should be a danger sign to us all. Pesticides and loss of habitat are two big factors. It's time we listened to the bees.

Thanks Toe. That's a WOO.

This article is illuminating:

https://usafacts.org/articles/what-is-the-loss-of-bees-costing-the-us/

[staci]

Aught is a word that can be a pronoun, an adverb, or a noun with different meanings. As a pronoun, it means anything or all. As an adverb, it means at all. As a noun, it means zero or nothing.

[MissBarbara]

Aught is a word that can be a pronoun, an adverb, or a noun with different meanings. As a pronoun, it means anything or all. As an adverb, it means at all. As a noun, it means zero or nothing.

It's impossible not to upvote this post!

There were some people who referred to the decade between 2000 and 2009 as "the aughts."

[Pornhubby]

There were some people who referred to the decade between 2000 and 2009 as "the aughts."

I am some people. There is no other term for that decade.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aughts#:~:text=The%20aughts%20(American%20English)%20or,the%20decade%202000%20to%202009.

[Shiela_M]

Never heard this before. Guess us Wisconsinites are on the "Oh" side of the line.

20-oh-1

[staci]

see there, you learned something today.

[ObiDongKenobi]

Re: Tellling the Bees

This got some prominence (and ridicule as a myth) when Elizabeth II died.

[purpleshoes]

I am some people. There is no other term for that decade.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aughts#:~:text=The%20aughts%20(American%20English)%20or,the%20decade%202000%20to%202009.

There is in other countries. Quoting from your link:

The noughties became a common name for the decade in the United Kingdom and in New Zealand and Australia.

Merriam-Webster defines 'nought' as a lesser used variation of naught. Spell check is asking if I meant bought, fought, sought, ought or naught.

[Pornhubby]

Your meticulous attention to detail is unnecessary PH, because as Wiki said, it is called the “aughts” in the United States and the “noughties” in UK. Meaning the same thing. I read the article before I posted the link. I bet they have a Spanish word for it in Spain. That doesn’t make it a different word.

[purpleshoes]

There were some people who referred to the decade between 2000 and 2009 as "the aughts."

I am not some people. I call it "the nadas" for my Spanish-speaking friends. Or "the nils" for my fútbol-loving friends. 

[Sarah_1964]

I learnt what ENF means.