TIL: Today I Learned

[Goodfella]

I learned lobsters are only red after they're boiled.

 

[Algeroth]

Surprising as it is to some inbreeding only becomes truly dangerous once it's done generation and generation again, if it's just one generation while still a concern you aren't likely to get three headed mutants as some people believe (likelier than two distantly related people, sure, but not that likely still).

Yeah, I know that. I was just surprised by the sheer scale of interbreeding between Hapsburgs. That needs some serious determination to reach this level.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Guess they really, really wanted to keep that PU with Spain.

 

[Borachio]

TIL that devil has evil in it.

God is Dog backwards. Evil is Live backwards, too. I'm not really sure that this sort of thing is significant.

 

[Tigranes]

It is not. Except that I never realized my TIL until T. That's what this thread is all about

 

[madviking]

I learned lobsters are only red after they're boiled.

you never saw those tanks at giant or shoppers?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

TIL traditional Chinese medicine wasn't always venerated in China.

 

[Borachio]

TCM is absolutely appalling. Yet there's a practitioner in the largest town near me.

I can't see much wrong with acupuncture. I can't see it doing any good, but I don't believe it does any harm. It's just a placebo, imo.

The only danger is if you neglect to go to a doctor if something is really wrong. (Though I don't have great faith in conventional medicine either. But it's usually slightly better than nothing.)

 

[Samez]

TCM has it's good and bad sides. Acupuncture can do amazing things done properly (with sterilized needles!) and the integral medicine concept is really reasonable.
On the other hand bad things can happen. A friend of my family was treated for some minor issue with grounded bat wings. He got a serious food poisoning from the dried and grounded wings and had to be hospitalized.

 

[Borachio]

All those remedies based on rhino horn and bits of tigers? Ugh! It's not only quackery, but nature unfriendly quackery too.

And Triple Burners. What's all that about?

 

[Tigranes]

TIL...

...that in the United Kingdom, badger setts are protected from disturbance or destruction under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992.

 

[Goodfella]

you never saw those tanks at giant or shoppers?

Never payed a lot of attention and never ate lobster.

 

[bhsup]

TIL fake pubic beards (merkins) are a thing. I honestly initially thought you guys were doing some weird word play on America/'Murkin until a later post prompted me to look into it.

It's a weird world out there...

I learned lobsters are only red after they're boiled.

Seafoam Lobster wouldn't be a very good name for a restaurant...

 

[Timsup2nothin]

TIL fake pubic beards (merkins) are a thing. I honestly initially thought you guys were doing some weird word play on America/'Murkin until a later post prompted me to look into it.

It's a weird world out there...

There really is a word for everything.

Next time I am filling out something with a blank for "Occupation" I will answer merkin tailor and fitter.

 

[Goodfella]

TIL fake pubic beards (merkins) are a thing. I honestly initially thought you guys were doing some weird word play on America/'Murkin until a later post prompted me to look into it.

When I read "fake pubic beards" I was thinking something else until I googled it too . I didn't know this was a thing either.

 

[Arakhor]

Which is why people who exclaim, "I'm <name> and I'm a 'Murkin," are inherently risible.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

TIL about the existence of library ships.

 

[Tigranes]

A 107-year old Pine Bluff man died last year in AR after a shootout with officers and S.W.A.T. members.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Holy crap, through the power of internet research, I've just learned that the version of Scarborough Fair by some Japanese artists I've been in love with for these past six years didn't have incorrect grammar after all. In the variant of Scarborough Fair they based theirs on, the lyrics weren't "Where are you going to Scarborough Fair?" but "Where are you going? To Scarborough Fair?"

My mind is absolutely blown. And also mad props for the musicians for doing the research to dig up a more obscure version of the Scarborough Fair lyrics and melody.

Though, granted, they still have a heavy accent.

 

[Goodfella]

I learned that police helicopters, while at a crime scene, fly in circles while news helicopters hover steadily. This is because police helicopters fly low and need momentum for a crash landing in the case of engine problems. News helicopters are higher so they don't worry about it.