Something interesting you learned recently

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  1. Irminsul

    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    That's the fella. :D
    Think he was eating all of Hamburglers food. :p

    Someone told me what he was once... Fuuuuck I can't recall. Maybe a beet.
     
  2. Driftrue

    Driftrue Banned

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    looks like an aubergine
    or.. americans say an eggplant
     
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  3. Irminsul

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    That's right! It was my wife.

    He's meant to be a taste bud.

    I knew it was something way out there. :tearsofjoy:
     
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  6. Irminsul

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    What they couldn't find an actually picture of one they had to rip of a C grade documentary film? :tearsofjoy:
     
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  7. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    Cats can learn 120 different commands.....they just don't want to.
     
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    Gospel Truth If Ever I Heard It...... :D



    Cheers Glen.
     
  11. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    To deter wasps that feed on your big beautiful peaches which are hanging from the trees and you can't wait to eat one but when you pick it you find out it's just a hollow shell because those darn wasps ate it all.......
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    You can buy a Waspinator, which is a fake wasp nest to hang in your trees.
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    The wasps think it's a rival wasp faction and will stay away.
     
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    can also use a paper bag.
     
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  13. granite45

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    Sunday we stopped at a fish store on the Skokomish Reservation and bought a small king salmon from Hood Canal. As the guy started to filet the fish he indicated that it was an “Ivory king” and asked if we still wanted the fish. We did, and grilled it tonight and had it with a fresh tomato basil salad....yum. The flesh was indeed ivory white and very rich. Tonight I looked at the Alaska Fish and Game site and learned that white or ivory king salmon is relatively uncommon. The fish lack the ability to process a pigment in their food but the nutritional value and taste is not affected. These fish now carry a premium price. Lived in the PNW 29 years and never tasted this uncommon fish before.
     
  14. Driftrue

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    i learned about the alcon blue butterfly. it lays it's eggs on one particular plant.. when they hatch, the caterpillars abseil to the ground on a silk thread and let ants carry them off to their nest. the caterpillars give off the scent of an ant egg, so the ants put them with the other eggs and feed them. they then give off the scent of a queen ant, causing the ants to care for them even more than their own eggs.. if there is a lack of food, the caterpillars get prioritised. they stay there for almost two years before pupating, then a couple of weeks later, hatching.
     
  15. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Ultra Man will blast you all with his particle-beam weapon!
     
  16. YouFreeMe

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    In California schools, it is illegal to administer IQ tests to African American children.
     
  17. TrudginAcrossTheTundra

    TrudginAcrossTheTundra Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    By "better", you mean more convenient?
    Because bread stays fresher longer when sliced as needed instead of presliced. So maybe what they need is a bread knife. :)

    That's a good one!!!

    Voice -> text no doubt
     
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  18. Irminsul

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    :) it's the little details isn't it. The details that you look at and say hey wait a minute, that doesn't make any sense at all. Why would a culture go through those lengths to mine and refine gold and seemingly miss the obvious much easier other metals that took 50,000 years to discover? Doesn't make sense. So I'm not calling bullshit, I'm just calling out that something or someone else knew about the gold and humans inherited the drive force behind its extraction.
     
  19. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    I learned that this isn't entirely accurate.

    It's based on LARRY P. v. RILES United States Court of Appeals, 1984. 793 F.2d 969 (9th Cir.).

    This is a Federal ruling that prohibits the placing of a student into a learning disabled class based on a culturally biased I.Q. test.
     
  20. 6-eyed shaman

    6-eyed shaman Sock-eye salmon

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    I learned I have better marketing ideas than my supervisor
     

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