You learn something new every day...so what have you learnt today?

Watching Antiques Roadshow just learnt that the phrase ‘bottoms up’ refers to pushing a glass up from the bottom so that all the booze is emptied into your mouth.

I shuddered reading my posts on this thread. Trigger indeed.

Shame the timestamp is lost on the Sep 11 2001 posts

horse motivator was a good dn

xp fwiw I’m in the US (central time zone) and I don’t see posts on Sept 11, only Sept 10.

The mekon was based on the oversized headed daughter of the original editor of The Eagle. The Eagle was a Xian magazine.

Some interesting takes on Indian aesthetics which I could do with reading more on.
That the eatery I've avoided since soon after it opened does have some ok food in. Just isn't the place I used to frequent in the same premises which pipped up as an fb memory this morning.

Learnt how to use carbon paper and a copy wheel over the weekend. Not sure why I never had before. Just not got round to it.

I only recently learned about "basic bitches" being a thing, wtf

Learned about the phrase or about the people?

the table on which Grant and Lee signed the treaty that ended the Civil War was gifted to General Custer's widow.

(she was not a widow at the time)

I learned that you can butterfly a boneless cut of meat. I always thought it was for bone-in cuts, or for that matter, just bone-in whole birds.

I just learned in the last few minutes that I was actually thinking of spatchcocking, so I learned nothing, actually.

There are 4 thermostats in the office, not 3. The 4th one is in Jason’s office

Fuckin' Jason, man...

Via sund4r I learned the other day that the little globe icon next to “public” on a Facebook post shows a different part of the earth depending on where you are posting from

I've learned that swedish people watch a donald duck christmas special on xmas eve. has been broadcast every year since the 50s and remains popular

I just found that out too, the climax of midsommar was wild

I learned that a small percentage of Swiss eat cats.

i learned that wifi needs to be connected BEFORE you connect to VPN & before you tell the help desk that the VPN isn’t working 😞

The Wikipedia entry on Cat meat is quite informative, which I was intending to check today anyway because coincidentally I just learned this morning that cat meat is used to make health tonic in certain parts of East Asia

The popularity of Italian food in India. Went to a Philosophy talk on Indian aesthetics and overheard a conversation between the speaker and an Italian audience member afterwards where the speaker was saying that there was a craze or longer term love for Italian food in the subcontinent.

JOrma Kaukonen's 2nd musical influence was rock and roll after he initially learnt folk blues. Which is to say he picked up guitar in the mid 50s influenced by a friend's esoteric musical tastes then when he got back from his dad's foreign posting as a diplomat he wound up in a rock'n'roll band with Jack Cassady as lead guitarist, still late 50s.

I just remember the perpetuation of the idea that nobody in the San Francisco scene had played rock and roll that they were all folkies who were just being amplified for the first time. Whioh seems to be untrue of most of the players you actually look into.

Yesterday I learnt that Longshot kick The Bucket described an actual horserace where the titular horse collapsed. The chorus names several other horses in the same race.

I also learnt that a Langsat is a fruit.
Fruit don't have feet so it's ability to kick a bucket is like really limited.

Also learnt that Egyptian tactics at points in the October War were a bit wayward. Learnt a few days ago that Israel was coasting on surprise success of 6 day war not learning from mistakes made during it.
& that Sadat manipulated an agreement he had made with Assad into getting external support from the UN. Subsequently he let Assad down when he was expecting support in a crisis. Gosh those politicians can be contrary.

Also the extent to which the US was born from genocide. As pre and post Independence the european population were already attacking the indigenous peoples to attempt to wipe them out.

& how mutable the old and new testaments were in terms of books included until a certain point. Kwame Anthony Appiah talking about what was considered canonical in terms of the Judaic tradition being more dynamic than people assume too. So what a real Jesus would have been familiar with in terms of holy texts likely to be different than later Xian thought would picture.

7cm of water will block radiation emitted from a radioactive source by half.

... if the radioactive source is a spent fuel rod.

I thought a spent fuel rod would still have a great deal of radiation coming from it, just not enough to be drawn from.
& does water not become irradiated. After which does it retain the protective qualities.
I mean surely one needs to get one's tinfoil together for these consequences.