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

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I learned about iotas and difference.

I learned that a baritone ukulele is somewhat easier to [learn to] play than a tenor guitar.

I learned the name of Franz Ferdinand's assassin - Gavrilo Princip.
Courtesy of the lovely drunkards at the bar and not Google.

Cheetahs are actually timid animals, and when they catch their food they'll eat it as quickly as possible before a predator shows up and scares them away from their meal. Also the females are solitary except when they mate and have cubs, but the males, usually brothers, travel in small groups. And the black tear marks under their eyes aren't there because they're emo, it's to protect their eyes from the blazing African sun.

Just about everyone knows cheetahs are really fast, but there's a lot of other interesting things about them, too.

Cheetahs were domesticated 5000 years ago in Egypt, from what I have read. they are the most domesticable of the big cats.

^That's fascinating. I like learning about Egypt.

^^^you may be interested in a movie called Duma, about a young South African boy's friendship with an orphaned cheetah from a story by Carol Flint and Karen Janszen, set in the country of South Africa and based on the book, "How It Was with Dooms" by Carol Cawthra Hopcraft and Xan Hopcraft.

I learned some peculiar things about humanity: specifically, a family can quarrel and bicker and annoy each other to no end, but can also defend each other to the death.

that some things can never quite be mastered.

I've learned the difference between a scam artist and someone who's really in dire straits. I know not to give money to just anyone now, and not to let a scam artist use my bank account to cash her cheques. I've also learned to stand up to scam artists and home invaders. Another thing I've learned is not to question myself and not to feel that I have to go back to my old (fake British) ways if I run into trouble with someone's Jewish like that scam artist was.

I learned that cats can act in very peculiar ways.

That religious significance is totally arbitrary, and depends entirely on self interest.

For every human cell in the your body, there's 360 bacterial cells.

that if you leave the whole house fan running all night [sucking cool night air inside the house], you can get the house cooled sufficient to button everything up at about 8AM and have the house remain cool until the late afternoon.

How to put a file path in a word document footer. Just kill me now.