Today I Learned #4: Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

[Berzerker]

Oakland Hills CC lost its historic clubhouse to fire. Built a century ago in 1922 near Detroit and host to multiple majors

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/oakland-hills-clubhouse-fire

 

[GinandTonic]

Oakland Hills CC lost its historic clubhouse to fire. Built a century ago in 1922 near Detroit and host to multiple majors

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/oakland-hills-clubhouse-fire

America has historic cricket clubs

Ahh, ok. Another linguistic division.

 

[EgonSpengler]

America has historic cricket clubs

Ahh, ok. Another linguistic division.

The Germantown Cricket Club and the Philadelphia Cricket Club were both founded in 1854.

EDIT: Wikipedia says the Germantown Cricket Club is a National Historic Landmark, a subset of the National Register of Historic Places.

 

[Ferocitus]

Crocodile tongue, salami and the business of adventurous eating
In the article, Martin Bouchier, chef at the Darwin CBD restaurant Phat Mango said:
"So much stuff gets wasted and it shouldn't really be turned into just rissoles and mince."
"This is giving respect to the animals."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02...-the-business-of-adventurous-eating/100852912

If you happen to have the world's biggest salad, I now know where to find the world's biggest tosser.

 

[Sofista]

If it tastes good, why not?

 

[Samson]

If it tastes good, why not?

There seems to me something wrong environmentally and animal welfare wise raising one of these:

Just to get one of these:

 

[Sofista]

One should hope so.

A dwarf crocodile weighs about 60 lb. A saltwater crocodile weighs well over 2000 lb. The price here is close to 150€/Kg.

Slaughtering them in their infancy would be madness.

 

[The_J]

The article says that they crocodiles would normally be used for their skin. Selling the meat is basically just a side bussiness. So... I guess that's okay.

 

[Takhisis]

The article says that they crocodiles would normally be used for their skin. Selling the meat is basically just a side bussiness.

This was once the case, before refrigeration, for leather exporters in South America. At best you could smoke or salt the meat, but a lot of it, which is now considered a series of delicacies, was just discounted as part of the farmhands' feed.

 

[The_J]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream_float
TIL that there are monsters who put ice cream in soda. You degenerates!

 

[Valka D'Ur]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream_float
TIL that there are monsters who put ice cream in soda. You degenerates!

Don't knock it 'til you've tried it. Root beer floats are wonderful (have to be A&W, though).

 

[AmazonQueen]

TIL a new word. Inglobate
Saw it in this article https://www.express.co.uk/news/worl...kraine-Ambassador-US-Vladimir-putin-latest-vn and thought is that really a word.

Turns out it is although I don't think the Express is using it correctly. https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Inglobate

 

[Takhisis]

From Wiktionary:

verb: To incorporate something into a larger globular thing.​

 

[Quintillus]

TIL that WWII submarines, at least of the German variety, could only travel about 6 knots while submerged, versus 18 knots or so when not submerged. I'd always pictured them sailing silently under the seas, stalking boats and sinking them, but they have to be surfaced to travel with any speed.

I also learned that Tom Hanks knows more about WWII submarines than I do.

 

[Samson]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream_float
TIL that there are monsters who put ice cream in soda. You degenerates!

Try it with a coffee, it is pretty good.

 

[The_J]

Try it with a coffee, it is pretty good.

Oh, iced coffee I like.
This also makes way more sense to me, since you anyways put milk into coffee, so why not vanilla ice cream (or any other).
But with coke or sprite... just....uaaah.
It would sound more reasonable with sorbet somehow, but even then...

 

[AmazonQueen]

I liked ice cream with cream soda when I was a kid. I suspect I'd find it sickeningly sweet now.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Oh, iced coffee I like.
This also makes way more sense to me, since you anyways put milk into coffee, so why not vanilla ice cream (or any other).
But with coke or sprite... just....uaaah.
It would sound more reasonable with sorbet somehow, but even then...

You don't use coke or sprite (I've never heard of anyone even imagining a sprite float - that would be disgusting).

You use root beer. Specifically, A&W root beer, not MUG or Barq's or Fanta or some stupid store brand.

 

[The_J]

According to the wiki article it can be any type of soda, with regional variations .

 

[Bamspeedy]

I had tried all types of different flavored 'floats' when I was younger.

Most are good (if you like the soda flavor that is), but obviously root beer is the classic, that most will say is the best.