You learn something new everyday: what did you learn today?

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I learned that my girlfriend really likes me a lot and that I get my kids for a whole month next month!

Today I read on TV Tropes about the Four Temperaments - Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholy and Phlegmatic - what they mean, and which groups of characters fit each one.

For example, The Ninja Turtles : Leonardo: Melancholy, Donatello: Phlegmatic, Raphael: Choleric and Michelangelo: Sanguine.

TV Tropes said Tommy is melancholy and Chuckie is Sanguine from Rugrats. I think they got them mixed up.

Greeks consume more cheese per capita, than any other nation.

I learned about the origin of the word "lukewarm."

From Middle English leuk "tepid" (c. 1200), of unknown origin; perhaps from Middle Dutch or Old Frisian leuk "tepid, weak," or from Old English hleowe (adv.)

Today, I read winds blow from west to east in the mid-latitudes, where the United States is located, but in the tropics, they blow east to west.

Brake cylinders can lock up, causing brake dust to go where it shouldn't, and the friction of the wheel's movements can cause the brake dust to catch fire. Unfortunately learned by experience.

A news feature on my internet provider's website informs me that Lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables.

^^^
when I see olives, I RUN in the opposite direction!

^ ...though an olive is, of course, a fruit.

Fear of fruits should, according to the rules, be carpophobia, though this apparently means "fear of wrists"! !

http://www.trivials.com/weird-phobias/

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... arpophobia

IMHO, it has got to be the most foul tasting "fruit" this side of hell.
most of radio shack's audio equipment was made by Foster Electronics of Japan.

I read some online articles/blogs about autistic inertia. I realize that's one of the major factors that have been making my life so difficult.

I learned that seeking happiness from any other human being, is a fool's errand.

That each US state has its own nickname for a Crayola crayon. Ohio, for example, nicknamed Red-Violet "Rock 'n Roll Raspberry".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alterna ... la_crayons

Some insects and spiders defend their eggs. I thought they just laid the eggs and left.

On Toonpedia I learned that mini-comics is the term for handmade comics drawn usually by one person, not usually for profit but as an expression of creativity. I found this interesting since I have a pile of these mini-comics I've made, mostly from the mid-90's but then I started writing and illustrating stories which I hoped one day I would make into a profit. Yeah right. I'm still waiting to hear from the author of a children's book that I made illustrations for, and it's taking literally YEARS. She told me she had found a publisher, so I don't know why it's taking so LONG! Sometimes I worry she will find another illustrator who is better than me, and I'll suddenly find the book at the store or something.

got a food scale from amazon "Carelove" is the brand . i want to say it is very easy to use and my little son loves it very much .he enjoy measuring almost everything with it . so funny .