You learn something new everyday: what did you learn today?

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I guess I learned this several years ago, but some recent struggles with my computer cemented this in my brain for all time:

If you want to run Linux (a free alternative to Microsoft Windows), be prepared to try several different flavors (called "distributions") and several different wifi cards in your desktop computer before you find a combination where wifi actually works.

I could go up into my attic and drop a network cable down inside my wall, and install an ethernet jack on the back wall of my computer room; then I would not depend on wireless for my internet anymore. But that would be a lot of work. I will probably go ahead and install that ethernet jack in the future, just not right now.

I learned that often older models of products are not always cheaper, sometimes yes, sometimes not

Dog from CatDog is voiced by the same person as SpongeBob and Spyro.

I've learned that German spoke today is not the same as it was spoken several centuries ago..

Ani Di Franco was at an open mic and there were these born again Christians there and they had a duet poem prayer thing about whether Anne Frank turned to Jesus before she died so she didn't end up in Hell...

She found it awkward.

The first mention of baseball appeared on the Whitehall Evening post in 1749, proving the game
came from England, not America.

George Weah is the president of Lebanon.

In 1984, New Zealand's Prime Minister got drunk and decided to spontaneously call a general election. He lost.

You can't trust history books. History lies to us all the time.

It's best to ignore history and concentrate on the present.

They say that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it, but people who study and learn about history are doomed to repeat it aswell. There is no escaping things like war and disaster.

That initially Einstein thought the universe was static and therefore all the contents of such would remain orderly;however, after doing further research his theory was proven invalid

I learned all of the lyrics to "Baby Shark".

It's not strictly true that no sound vibrations can travel through space at all, but humans would not be able to hear any sounds in space.

I'm supposed to have learnt stuff at the museum but it was boring... (don't tell my stepdad and if you're the sort of aspie who likes looking at old things behind glass cases you wouldn't find it boring but I like living history museums instead)

So this is probably an urban legend instead. I heard it on a bus.

The ancient Romans were scared that people would come back to life so they decapitated all their corpses which apparently stops it from happening. Because the heads weren't connected to the spines anymore, they didn't get the spinal fluid running to the brains so the brains didn't rot. There are still ancient roman brains around today.

Not sure how true that is, mind you.

The Politics, Religion, and Philosophy section of Wrong Planet will drain your human soul.