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

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Not to get mixed up in heated threads, if I don't want to be personally attacked.

so M by Fritz Lang is in german. still a crazy awesome movie. of course i like foreign films so i didn't care.

I learned that Willard's username and avatar are from a Crispin Glover movie called Willard. I've always thought that the man in his avatar looked very familiar, but I didn't fully recognize him without the eyepatch and facial scars he sported in Alice in Wonderland. I learned about the Willard movie the other day when I was doing research on movies starring Crispin Glover, and only then did it hit me that that's where the WP user got his username/avatar from.

In ancient Greece (469 - 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom.

One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance, who ran up to him excitedly and said, "Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students?"

"Wait a moment," Socrates replied. "Before you tell me, I'd like you to pass a little test.
It's called the Test of Three."

"Test of Three?"

"That's correct," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my student,
let's take a moment to test what you're going to say.
The first test is Truth.
Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?"

"No," the man replied, "actually I just heard about it."

"All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not.
Now let us try the second test, the test of Goodness.
Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?"

"No, on the contrary..."

"So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him
even though you're not certain it's true?"

The man shrugged, a little embarrassed.

Socrates continued, "You may still pass though because there is a third test,
the filter of Usefulness.
Is what you want to tell me about my student going to be useful to me?"

"No, not really..."

"Well," concluded Socrates,
"if what you want to tell me is neither true nor good nor even useful,
why tell it to me at all?"

The man was defeated and ashamed and said no more.

This is the reason Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem.
It also explains why Socrates did not find out that Plato was banging his wife.

That I'm fixated on the number, 100.

I've learned to not bicyle in an area filled with way too many bugs and so forth..

I only just realised that "loaf" in "use your loaf" is rhyming slang.

05/31 is apparently global love day. Yet another holiday I need to make up for.

I learned that my mom's boyfriend's daughter thinks I'm a genius. Which makes her really dumb.

I've learned that it doesn't matter, if I'm not the brightest light bulb, on WrongPlanet, and that I have a big heart, to make up for that.

I learned that the Dreamcast is VGA compatible, giving me all the reason I need to buy an HD TV/Monitor

Not today, but yesterday: I learned that my little brother's best friend has AS.

That those grey funks don't last forever.

How good it feels to finally just let go of a friend who was never a friend, and move on, and be happy.

i learned today that i was not able to learn anything today.

To use oven mitts, instead of a towel when taking something out of my oven.