Something interesting you learned recently

A button-up shirt is any shirt that has buttons all the way up its front. A button-down shirt is a button-up shirt that also has buttons on the collar which are added to keep the collar from flopping.
So if the collar can be fastened to the shirt via buttons, then it's a button-down shirt.

 

^
*mind blown*

 

But yeah

A button-down is a button-up, but a button-up isn't necessarily a button-down.

 

I will admit my mind was not really blown

 

Lapsang souchong is a black tea originally from the Wuyi region of the Chinese province of Fujian.
It is sometimes referred to as smoked tea.
Lapsang is distinct from all other types of tea because lapsang leaves are traditionally smoke-dried over pinewood fires, taking on a distinctive smoky flavour.

When told that his Captain Picard character from Star Trek would drink a lot of tea, Patrick Stewart originally suggested that he drink Lapsang souchong, but the producers were afraid the audience wouldn't know what that was, so the character drank Earl Grey instead.

 

My Friends And Myself Drank "Lapsang" Years Ago......In Hindsight I Believe That Was The

Beginning Of My "Issues"......

Seriously.....That Tea Is Some "Heavy Shit"......



Cheers Glen.

 

^you really know how to sell it

 

I can tell that when I try and impress someone with my knowledge about shirts, I'm going to get muddled up. Okay, okay. They're all button up. Button down the collar. Batton down the hatches. That's how I'll remember.

 

When setting the valve clearance on a V65, it really does make a big difference whether you use the factory camshaft-holding tool or not.

 

The Heaven's Gate Cult was located in San Diego, near me.

I was vaguely familiar with the Cult and knew that they performed a mass suicide in the 90's around the passing of the Hale-Bopp comet but was unaware they were located in this region. I thought it was a group that was located off the grid.

Their website is still up and many of the lectures of the leader Applewhite are still available on Youtube.

*My apologies regarding learning about another suicide related thing

 

Charles Darwin ate pretty much every animal he ever discovered.

He ate puma ("remarkably like veal in taste"), iguanas, armadillos. He not only ate giant tortoises, but tried drinking their bladder contents: "The fluid was quite limpid, and had only a very slightly bitter taste." He ate a 20-pound rodent (usually assumed to be an agouti) that provided "the very best meat I ever tasted." He even accidentally ate part of an ostrich-like bird called a lesser rhea, after spending months trying to catch it so that he could describe the species.

 

So we basically have the theory of evolution because some hungry guy wanted to taste delicious species from all around the world?

 

Can you think of a better reason to theorize?

 

For the babes? That's why Hawking did it.

 

I've learned recently (via this thread) that I don't learn much interesting stuff, or if I do, I forget it all.

 

I've learned recently (via this thread) that I don't learn much interesting stuff, or if I do, I forget it all.

 

I was reading about this dude on Friday--he ate an entire airplane.

His nickname was "Monsieur Mangetout" (Mr. Eat-all) and he ate a Cessna 150 airplane (9 tons of metal!!) over the course of 2 years. According to this article: "Other notable items he ate throughout his career include: Bicycles, shopping carts, beds, chandeliers, television sets, a small section of the Eiffel tower and a coffin."

Here he is with his plane:



Flight-Delayed.co.uk

 

A true explorer!

Someone's not quite getting it. I assume its him, but perhaps it's me

 

I feel this way about nationalism - maybe if we all just focused on food...

 

Darwin developed his exotic appetite at a young age. During his student days at Christ’s College, Cambridge, he presided over the University’s Glutton Club. The main objective of the club was to seek out "strange flesh" and consume the "birds and beasts which were before unknown to human palate."