Today I Learned

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I could order British food at a pizza joint. I ordered fish n chips and a Diet Pepsi at The Pizza Factory today.

That Nikola Tesla is a man. All this time I thought he was a woman until I saw a picture of him.

When someone says, "Go ahead; call the cops. What're they gonna do?" they apparently don't actually expect one to call the cops.

"Jaws" turns 50 this years

Or "Jars" as we like to call it in our house

That today is International Lefthander's Day.

As a lefthander, I think we should make all righthanders use their left hand for everything today, so that they'll see how it felt back when left handed people were forced to use their right hand and were treated like garbage or associated with Satanism.

Nah, I'm just glad to be living in an era where being left handed is (mostly) tolerated. At least in most Western countries. Can't understand why so many other differences have yet to be.

Donovan's song Mellow Yellow is about a device designed to provide woman battery operated pleasure. This was played on main stream radio back in the sixties.
This sounds like it should be in the Tell a Blatant Lie thread, but it is not.

The gemstone carbuncle is red

That so many expressions (idioms) we use do actually have a literal origin. I always thought they were just made-up phrases, not actually having a literal origin behind them lol.

That R&B stands for "rhythm and blues", not "rhythm and beat".

A spider can live to 43 years old

A London pizza is a cheese and tomato sauce pizza topped with fries and garlic mayo drizzled over the fries.

I started thinking about making a poutine pizza, but I then thought that might be kind of disgusting.

The shoebill bird makes a sound that is very loud and eerily similar to a machine gun by clapping its very large beak.

I have been watching videos from this channel for the last ... two hours (! !!). Learning and re-enforcing lots of things.

YouTube Channel Insider Science

A boy around 10 years old in the US was shot to death by a man for playing ding-dong ditch at 11 PM.

In case you don't know already, ding-dong-ditch is a prank where you ring someone's doorbell or knock, and then run away before the person at home opens the door.

While most Redditors seem to agree that shooting a child for an annoying but otherwise harmless prank is awful, some have the theory the boy may have been trying to kick the door open and act like he was breaking in because of yet another stupid TikTok trend, while others wanted to know why a ten-year old was even out late at night in the first place.

Me, the whole shooting incident just made me think it was just another day in the US.

Alan Smithee.