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

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I learned that I can fit a drum sander into my router to straighten an edge or clean up a hole saw cut.

I've learned that sometimes you have to be creative and develop your own plan of strategic action when certain persons seem to have failed you miserably..

I read today that you used to be able to tell how wealthy someone was by how high a floor they lived on in apartment buildings. Poor people used to live high up while wealthy people lived closer to the ground. This was before elevators so you always had to climb stairs so I can understand why it would be cheaper to live higher up. I can't understand how hard that must have been, especially if you were carrying stuff or had children with you. Now it seems more like the opposite, where high-rise apartments that overlook the city are "classy", or something.

Today I learned that if you do fit a drum sander into a router, the high RPMs of the router will make smoke.

I also learned that if you keep on going because you like the smell of burnt Oak, the drum sander will catch fire and burn itself useless.

Then, I learned that diving an hour down mountain roads to go to town to buy a new one, with the window open and the heat on, makes a darn fine way to really appreciate a beautiful Autum day.

That there is a genre of music called Techno Swing.

I learned how to use the archaic pronouns thou, thee, ye, thy and thine. Basically, the first three all mean 'you' while the other two mean 'your(s)', all used in different contexts. It's rather tricky so I'll just link to the Wikipedia article, for anyone interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou#Declension

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Otherwise, I tried coming up with sentences to explain the differences. Hopefully they're accurate; if not, then please check the link above.

Early Modern English
(Singular) Thou gavest¹ thy² book to me, and now it is mine. When I give my² new book back to thee, it will be thine again.
(Plural) Ye³ gave your books to us, and now they are ours. When we give our new books back to you, they will be yours again.
¹ "Gave" becomes "gavest" or "gav'st" when preceded by "thou" in indicative sentences. Long story.
² "Thy" becomes "thine" and "my" becomes "mine", when followed by a noun that starts with a vowel or an "h"; compare "thy book" and "thine handbook", and "my book" and "mine handbook". This distinction is not observed for plural pronouns.
³ More common in earlier forms of English; later replaced by "you".

Translation into Modern English
(Singular) You gave your book to me, and now it is mine. When I give my new book back to you, it will be yours again.
(Plural) All of you gave (all of) your books to us, and now they are ours. When we give our new books back to all of you, they will be (all of) yours again.

Also note that, depending on the time period, some of the abovementioned plural pronouns could be used in place of their corresponding singular pronouns in formal or respectful speech. Again, this is explained in the link above.

I've learned how to improve any version of windows to be more secure, stable, perform better through tweaks, hacks,mods.

I read that the phrases "cold turkey" and "kicking the habit" come from the withdrawl symptoms of people addicted to morphine. The goosebumps caused by chills and jerking of the legs, respectively.

I never want to be given morphine even medicinally, it is scary stuff. I read Western doctors think it's best to give it to someone in chronic pain and wean them off afterwards. I'd be like, "I don't care if I have arthritis in every joint in my body, you are not shooting me up with that junk".

That lizards can't walk and breathe at the same time.

i learned to post more obnoxious reminders for things around my room where i'm most often to look. they work very well when they cover my drawings.

I learned that there's a company called Kre-O that makes building toys very similar to Lego. I was wondering why there was no Lego Star Trek stuff, and I found out: the license is owned by Kre-O instead. I had never heard of this company until now.

when you write in ink on the back of a park bench, no one will really care to remove it.

when you write in ink on a "government property, no trespassing" sign, still no one will care to remove it.

I have learnt that in my country's climate the Corylus avellana 'Contorta' rarely grows nuts, however this year, for some reason, it has.

i learned than apparently only 4chan is freaking out and s***ing themselves over fallout 4 being crap.

That the phrase "Don't mess with Texas" has nothing to do with Texan toughness, but was invented by the Texas Department of Transportation to fight littering

the round courtyard at the doubletree resort by the beach i've been on love with for so long is called the "plaza del sol". it used to be a railroad roundabout way back before the earthquake.