TIL: post things you learned today.

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Hardee's discontinued their low carb breakfast bowl.

 

[Sundae]

Cheetahs' tongues are covered in tooth-like spines made of keratin (the same substance our fingernails are made of).

People who have been licked by cheetahs have compared the texture of their tongues as similar to 10-grit sandpaper.

 

[Slap47]

The USA had soldiers called "McNamara's morons", people that were actually retarded were forced to fight in Vietnam.

 

[Guts Gets Some]

I learned about a great new Firefox add-on today. Always good.

 

[Hummingbird]

I learned a bunch of stuff about Napoleon after seeing an art exhibit with all these propaganda portraits of him and his family.

 

[Ilackcreativity]

The Philippians gained their independence from the United States on July 4th 1946, and was celebrated on that day until in 1962 when President Diosdado Macapagal changed it to June 12th so that it wouldn't be on the same day as the United States independence day.

 

[Hummingbird]

Today I learned that getting a shot in the ass hurts less thenit does in the arm.

 

[Ilackcreativity]

this

 

[The Cunting Death]

Shel Silverstein, that guy who wrote a ton of childrens literature and poetry, wrote a ton of songs, some were used by Johnny Cash, Dr. Hook, Kris Kristofferson, and Waylon Jennings

 

[Count groudon]

apparently Hey Arnold started out a series of claymation shorts on seasame street.

 

[The Cunting Death]

apparently Hey Arnold started out a series of claymation shorts on seasame street.

It did, sort of.

Craig Bartlett at the time was working on Pee Wee's Playhouse when he was making those (he did the Penny Shorts)

 

[Rand /pol/]

The kid from Home Alone is married to Brenda Song

 

[Autopsy]

There is a useful chemical that is canonically referred to as BARF because the IUPAC name is really unwieldy.

 

[BScCollateral]

Since humans mostly kill bears for self defense or sport, they're more likely to kill adult male bears than cubs.

Bears know this, and wild mother bears will often leave their cubs near people since adult male bears, who will eat cubs, will avoid people.

 

[ICametoLurk]

Hitler had a quack doctor named Theodore Morell, who repeatedly injected him with many snake oil substances, and meth. Theodore Morell turned Hitler into a meth addict, which deteriorated his health and mental state. Theodore Morell was Jewish.

 

[PT 940]

Today I learned that people can be allergic to surgical steel...the hard way.

 

[Koby_Fish]

TIL that a person wrote up an obituary for a mentally handicapped person, and unironically called the person an "Exceptional Individual". No, not the word filter r word. Actual usage of Exceptional Individual.

 

[PT 940]

TIL not to use products on my face that contain "sulfur" as the active ingredient

 

[Shibaru]

Porsche Briefly Discontinued the Sale of the Boxster (And Possibly the Cayman too) in the US From the 2005 - 2012 Model Years, Meaning for a Brief (And Pretty Long) Period of time, if you wanted a Brand New Porsche in the US It had to be a SUV or you had to pony up the extra cash for a Base Model 911.

Although this could just be a rumor, i'm going off copart listings and there's a Gap between 2004 (Gen 1) and 2013 (Gen 3).

EDIT: Ignore all that, I'm Looking at ebay right now and the first thing that pops up are 2005 - 2012 Boxsters, Either people barely bought it or hot damn people maintain these things like they are their babies.

 

[BScCollateral]

The kill fee Bela Lugosi earned for not appearing in Dracula's Daughter was more than he earned for Dracula.