The "I learned something new today!" Thread

[LadyDestani]

I learned that you can use dental tablets (like the kind for cleaning dentures) to get tea and coffee stains out of mugs. I tried it out today because my favorite mug had picked up a lot of stains from the last kind of tea I bought and it seems like it works.

I filled the mug with water up to the stain line, dropped the tablet in and let it sit for about 30 minutes. I wasn't sure how long to leave it because some sites said 15 minutes and some said hours. I erred on the shorter side for the first time. When I was done, I dumped the liquid out and cleaned the mug with dish soap and a sponge like normal. It took a little bit of hard scrubbing but I got about 75% of the stains out. I'll definitely give it another try and see if I can get them all out later.

 

[Croconaw]

I don’t know how long this has been a thing, but I just discovered it yesterday.

I discovered that you can change the username of YouTube channel. You couldn’t do that back in 2010. This discovery makes me really happy.

 

[VernalLapin]

Like Energizer, Duracell also has a pink bunny mascot.

 

[LadyDestani]

A few days ago, I learned about an instrument called a Hurdy Gurdy. It sounds really cool and it's used in the show Black Sails which has one of my favorite opening theme songs.

 

[Neb]

Today I learned that both Switzerland's and the amount of people with Swiss ancestry in America is smaller than I thought. There are around 8 million people living in Switzerland and just a little under 1 million Americans have Swiss ancestry. The state with the highest Swiss American population is Utah at 1.28% of the general population. My state Oregon is at fourth with 0.76%. A large chunk of my ancestry is Swiss, so I'm surprised how few there are of us relative to the total American population. I also thought Switzerland had a population around 40 million, not 8 million.

 

[nightglow]

I learned that you can use dental tablets (like the kind for cleaning dentures) to get tea and coffee stains out of mugs. I tried it out today because my favorite mug had picked up a lot of stains from the last kind of tea I bought and it seems like it works.

I filled the mug with water up to the stain line, dropped the tablet in and let it sit for about 30 minutes. I wasn't sure how long to leave it because some sites said 15 minutes and some said hours. I erred on the shorter side for the first time. When I was done, I dumped the liquid out and cleaned the mug with dish soap and a sponge like normal. It took a little bit of hard scrubbing but I got about 75% of the stains out. I'll definitely give it another try and see if I can get them all out later.

Idk how bad ur stains are, but I spray a little vinegar in my cups for tea rings and then scrub them and they come right off. Good to know about denture cleaning tablets. Never thought about it!

 

[Croconaw]

I learned that Prince is actually 5’2” and that makes me feel less dysphoric about my height.

 

[LadyDestani]

Today I learned that Miſs is an antiquated way of writing the honorific Miss. The third letter is a 'long s' that fell out of use at the end of the Georgian era (roughly 1800).

The Gradual Disappearance of the Long S in Typography : History of Information

The Gradual Disappearance of the Long S in Typography

www.historyofinformation.com

 

[-Blue-]

I learned about the whole MOVE debacle and how the Pennsylvanian police force bombed a house to snuff out the terroist cult group, but ended up burning down around 130 homes essentially making many homeless. It's really weird that this isn't talked about at all. I live so close and I've never heard it.

 

[Alienfish]

Volodymyr Zelenskyy apparently used to voice Paddington bear (Ukrainian dub) in the 2014 and 2017 films. This is actually amazing.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

I knew that the rival in Pokemon Yellow started with an Eevee, but I just learned that what his Eevee evolves into depends on how you do in the first two rival battles against him. If you win both battles, he gets Jolteon. If you win the first battle but lose the second on Route 22, he gets Flareon. And if you lose the first battle, he gets Vaporeon.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

TIL the "Happy Birthday" song didn't enter the public domain until 2015

 

[-Mars-]

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[Chris]

Today I learned the end-y bit you initially pull to unroll a new roll of toilet paper is called the tail.

Thank you @LaBelleFleur for educating me.

 

[-Blue-]

@BrokenSanity I don't want to show pictures of them because it may break the rules, (mild nudity sometimes) but the ideal female in Roman times was really your average female. Just Google Roman woman/ideal sculptures/statues. The standards today are really new. Not even a 100 years old.

 

[Croconaw]

I learned that the mascot of the place I work at is non-binary so the person dressing up is not allowed to talk, I guess so kids cannot differentiate “boy and girl.” I won’t mention the name, though, because it’s a local franchise.

 

[.: Meri :.]

I learned that red cabbage juice is a pH indicator! Nothing quite like adding a little lemon juice to your food and going "wait, this was deep purple a minute ago, why is it hot pink now".

 

[xSuperMario64x]

• avocados and peppers aren’t vegetables - they’re fruits. berries, to be exact.

I know this is super old but I was just browsing this thread and stumbled upon your post, did you know it's possible for something to be a fruit and a vegetable at the same time? because fruits are an actual like scientific classification, whereas what defines a vegetable is not scientific and is instead a cultural thing that varies by region

 

[VernalLapin]

I know this is super old but I was just browsing this thread and stumbled upon your post, did you know it's possible for something to be a fruit and a vegetable at the same time? because fruits are an actual like scientific classification, whereas what defines a vegetable is not scientific and is instead a cultural thing that varies by region

Nuts are scientifically fruits as well!

 

[xSuperMario64x]

TIL there is a lungs emoji haha