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

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.