TIL: Today I Learned

I sleep until noon often and still I cook every day. And, hmmm… fried eggs… I should fry one tomorrow.

 

I don't know how anyone can stand the smell of cooking eggs. It stinks up the entire kitchen.

 

Even when that is the case (it depends on how you cook the eggs, really) you can always just open a window.

 

There is no window in my kitchen.

 

Aaahh. Well then, that's another thing entirely.

 

I could maybe make it ten years without an oven, but I fry way too much stuff to get by without a stove. Plus, boiling pasta, making soup...yeah, I'd never make it without the stove.

 

That's how I feel about liver. But what the nose doesn't like, the taste buds do (yes, I do like liver... very occasionally). I love eggs and would happily eat them every day. Eggs and broccoli (but not together).

 

!9 years without baking an egg, The stove works fine.

 

The nose does in fact inform your taste buds, like it interacts with them and changes the taste compared to someone with no nose. The only good food I have had that smelled bad was quiche

 

YIL that while in the UK, and I thought most of Europe, the 11th November is known as remembrance day, in East Asia it is the biggest online shopping day of the year, "Singles Day", about being single, or not, or something.

 

November 11 isn't a holiday at all here.

 

It is not a holiday here, but we have a minutes silence at 11 am.

 

I wonder why, really. I mean it's not like the people should have waited for their leaders to tell them to get out of that raging fire

 

Today I learned that there've been multiple cases of exploding wales, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_whale .

 

I've read that people who have lost their sense of smell have a hard time maintaining weight as it severely impacts their sense of taste and they therefore lose a lot of the pleasure of eating.

 

Do you like limburger?

Edit: Actually having now read that article, I didn't realize how annoying that is to obtain. It smells like feet, but the difference between front and back nose smell receptors means it tastes really good. Really funky, but good.

 

I'm confused.

 

TIL that Australian aboriginal myths are believed, in some cases, to accurately describe the geology and ecology of Australia from 10,000 or more years ago.

 

I said that?! I meant oven, oven, oven!