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They only made 13 episodes of MrBenn

It literally felt like it was constantly on or telly when I was a kid

And I hated it

^That was the same for Postman Pat. Pre-1996 there were only 13 episodes that existed so back in the 80s when I watched it they were just repeating the same episodes constantly. Blows my mind, that.

That's nuts

At first I thought babybird meant Mr. Bean and I wondered who could dislike Mr. Bean? He's really funny. Then I looked up Mr. Benn on Wikipedia and learned he's a very different character. The story sounds interesting at least, putting on a costume and entering a magical world that "goes" with the costume.

Apparently there was one Mr. Benn book which the show is based on that wasn't made into an episode, it had Mr. Benn as a convict who helps his jail mates make their cells look more cheerful.

I learned the history behind Domino's Pizza today by watching a YouTube video.

Sneezing for hours straight, several times a minute is supposedly very exhausting.

... Well, I knew I have a very screwed up perception of what's normal and I seek so much of contrasting experiences but this one takes the cake for me.

Because, well, sneezing for hours straight, several times a minute, randomly throughout the day if not all day long, was basically how I experienced daily living as, and practically existed very often in my waking life for the last 20+ years.


So -- no. I do not know it's supposedly that exhausting. Only that I'm tired of existing that way than symptoms itself is tiring.

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There is a list on Wikipedia about people who have die rare and unusual deaths in the 21 Century. One example was about a woman in India who got trampled by an elephant. At her funeral what might have been the same elephant came and attacked her body by grabbing and trying to throw it

I don't know what it was about her that made this elephant so angry, maybe she was wearing ivory or something.

That I got $6 from Rakuten instead of the $44 I thought I got.

I learned that horchata is a name for a plant-milk based beverage of Spanish origin.

Actually, I was playing Animal Crossing where a character said she had a dream about horchata coming out of her faucet instead of water. I was curious to learn what horchata is so I looked it up on wiki.

Charging an EV at a public charge point is really really expensive. Like it could easily cost you 3 times as much to drive 100 miles in a publicly charged EV than it would in a petrol or diesel car. (Lots of variables in that, obviously - the tariff at the charge point, the current cost of fuel and the relative efficiencies of the vehicles involved but that's a middling figure by my estimations).

So EVs are only really cheaper than combustion engine cars if you're charging from home on a favourable tariff. No good for road trips.

I learned that when I was born I was placed into the care of the local authority under section 1 of the 1948 children's act

This is probably the saddest day of my life

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Ooh. That must be a bummer. But you survived, and from what I can figure out from your stuff on WP, your mental health is good.

How did you find out?

A social worker managed to retrieve all my documents from when I was born. We thought it had all been destroyed in a flood but it was in a completely different district for some reason. Where I've never even lived. So I was lucky

I was told 30 years ago that it had all been destroyed

I suppose you'll be better off knowing the truth once you're used to it.