TIL: Today I Learned

[Takhisis]

Because the minty kind was on sale....

I think that having to put up with the taste of mint toothpaste is enough punishment as it is, but I agree with AmazonQueen: That will teach you.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

 

[Lemon Merchant]

So what other flavours of toothpaste are there? I mean other than mint?

 

[Ajidica]

So what other flavours of toothpaste are there? I mean other than mint?

My current tube of toothpaste is cinnamon flavor.

 

[Phrossack]

My current tube of toothpaste is cinnamon flavor.

I normally taste the toothpaste rather than the tube, but I will trust your judgement on this one.

 

[shadowplay]

So what other flavours of toothpaste are there? I mean other than mint?

In addition to cinnamon, I've seen citrus flavour, anise and clove, and licorice.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I had bubblegum toothpaste once. It was kind of disgusting

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I saw mention of bacon-flavored toothpaste once, years ago.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Ew.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Today I learned that one of the earliest examples of ransomware was a diskette that disguised itself as an AIDS information program.

 

[Ajidica]

I normally taste the toothpaste rather than the tube, but I will trust your judgement on this one.

That actually made me laugh in real life.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Today I learned about Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau, two cities with some really weird borders.

 

[Arakhor]

Ah yes. Those are the two municipalities with famously insane borders.

 

[The_J]

I wonder why this has never been simplified. Some of the exclaves are only farmland, so that shouldn't be very difficult.

 

[Arakhor]

And if they swapped the Dutch exclaves for the smallest bits of Dutch-Belgium, you'd end up with just a couple of Belgian exclaves and no Dutch insanity.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I wonder why this has never been simplified. Some of the exclaves are only farmland, so that shouldn't be very difficult.

Maybe because it's funny?

 

[Takhisis]

So what other flavours of toothpaste are there? I mean other than mint?

I've checked the tube. It was not that difficult to read since the recuperation of national industry under Peronism means it is Sensodyne, made in Brazil and thus all the text is in Brazilian Portuguese, and thus I've verified that not even its makers have any idead what flavour it's supposed to be. FWIW it has a pink dye added to it which makes it cutesy like Mary's Comic Sans posts.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

cutesy like Mary's Comic Sans posts.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

There are some bizarre border issues with Canada and the U.S., as well.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

@Valka D'Ur Point Roberts, Northwest Angle, and Campobello Island are three that I know about.