Today I learned....

stripeypants · Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 2:26 pm Post subject: Today I learned....

I keep wanting a thread like this, so now i've made one. No citations needed for this thread, just share the bits.

Today I learned ancient Irish kings were deposed if cattle didn't do well,and part of that deposement was destroying their nipples. Because you can't be king with ruined nipples.
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Heretical Rants · Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Posts: 5344 Location: No.

Today I learned that motor vehicles are terrifying.
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Darqcyde · Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 3:17 pm Post subject:

There was a thread like this, but it's WAY buried.

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Anywho, today I learned that Final Draft likes to spontaneously corrupt files and has been this way pretty much forever, everyone knows about it, and no one seems to care.
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Darqcyde · Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 10:51 pm Post subject:

Many Americans are for "the Affordable Care Act" yet are against "Obamacare" . . . sigh . . .
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DeD CHiKn · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 3:38 am Post subject: Re: Today I learned....

stripeypants · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 6:32 am Post subject: Re: Today I learned....

stripeypants · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 6:35 am Post subject:

Today I learned Ketchup is a non-Newtonian fluid, and the best way to get Heins ketchup out of a glass jar is to hit near the mouth, not the bottom of the bottle. (Actually I find sticking a knife and pulling it out to be even more effective.)

wish I'd known this before have wide access to squeeze bottles.
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WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 14328 Location: Unknown Kaddath

Today I learned that the Dutch hate taste buds so much, they want to kill them off in the youth before kids mature by tricking them into eating "candy" that's made of licorice-colored salt. But not just any salt. Salt made from ammonia and hydrochloric acid. It's a kind of salt that forms naturally on burning piles of coal.
Yum.

Heretical Rants · Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Posts: 5344 Location: No.

I honestly don't get what's so bad about ammonium chloride, but okay.

It's a mild irritant, slightly acidic, ...

I bet they also cook with Ammonium carbonate and maybe some other chlorides as well *shock* *horror*
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Darqcyde · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 10:55 am Post subject:

Pshaw, it can't be worse than using potential toxic waste to make pretzels, can it?
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Heretical Rants · Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Posts: 5344 Location: No.

haha
If they were selling lye tablets as 'candy,' then I'd definitely agree with Wheels
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Darqcyde · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 12:30 pm Post subject:

Good point. Also, the ingredient lists makes it even more comical:

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allergieeeeeeesssss
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Darqcyde · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 2:14 pm Post subject:

Oh, I get how allergies work, I'm just always a little amused and disturbed when the allergen warnings include ingredients that aren't part of the product. I mean, I rather see a warning which says "Product was made in a facility which also processes wheat."

The way it's worded, it almost seems like there just may be random ingredients in there.
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