TIL: Today I Learned

[Takhisis]

Why else would administrative agencies have the power to administer their own budgets as they see fit?

Also, there's supposed to be ‘extraordinary’ (supplementary, unscheduled) sessions when important stuff happens.

 

[Kaitzilla]

TIL about a website that matched pictures of 1920s New York City with Google Maps.

https://www.oldnyc.org/#718194f-a

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

TIL the government of Brazil has no sense of self-awareness.

 

[W|M]

You mean the same government that calls itself secular but has ''God be Praised'' written on its currency?

You don't say

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

That's symbolic. Creating a bureaucracy to stop bureaucracy, on the other hand, is on another level entirely.

 

[W|M]

Reminds me of the Bureau of Bureaucracy

 

[Kyriakos]

Ants move in a pretty cool way:

 

[Hygro]

nice find.

 

[Arakhor]

Apparently, there's two different versions of It Came Upon The Midnight Clear.

The version I grew up with:


Link to video.

The other one:


Link to video.

 

[Kennigit]

I learned more about the US tax code and why I haven't optimized my taxes. Nothing major though

 

[Ajidica]

TIL that the forced placement insurance polices offered by the loan servicer I work for explicitly do not cover damage to property deriving from spacecraft or self-propelled missiles but do cover damage due to a meth lab explosion in a vacant property.
That they explicitly spelled out "self-propelled missiles or spacecraft" make me really want to learn what happened that forced them to include that comment.

 

[Arakhor]

My insurance policy is not covered by outbreak of war or ionising radiation. I really don't want to know if those were prompted by anything.

 

[W|M]

I wouldn't think collecting insurance money would be a big priority during/after a nuclear war

 

[Takhisis]

clearly you havent played fallout

 

[gay_Aleks]

would blowing up my 200-year old car count as car insurance fraud tho

 

[Zkribbler]

My insurance policy is not covered by outbreak of war or ionising radiation. I really don't want to know if those were prompted by anything.

Years ago, I worked at UCLA. During slow times, I would read the employee manual. One section stated that, in case of nuclear war, we were to stay at our posts until relieved. Yeah...that wasn't going to happen.

 

[thecrazyscot]

TIL that Ronald McDonald is just one of over twenty characters who inhabit the McDonaldland...er...universe.

 

[Zkribbler]

TIL that Ronald McDonald is just one of over twenty characters[/url] who inhabit the McDonaldland...er...universe.

Sounds like a Kroc.

 

[W|M]

would blowing up my 200-year old car count as car insurance fraud tho

How did you get a horse to live for 200 years?

 

[gay_Aleks]

Well, y'see, there's this Roma lady living down the street and...