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

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I learned that running around the house after eating is not a good idea.

Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street was inspired by a very rude and loud-mouthed waiter that worked at a place called Oscar's Tavern. Jim Henson actually found the waiter's grouchiness much more funny than annoying. In fact Jim started going to the tavern on a regular basis just to be "entertained" by him.

been reading in attempt to figure out what this is, and bounce back... appears to be relentless focal seizures, and possibly broken rem sleep.

People have been shoplifting razor blades at the grocery store pharmacy, so now they've been selling them behind the registers.

I wonder if they meant the double-edged razor blades? And why would people be stealing them?

After 17 years of using a dinosaur age computer system (it's written in DOS!! !! Of course, it is a state computer system.) that when admitting a new client, we have to switch the community eligibility from N to Y in order for it to export to ibudget. How did I get through so many years of working with this and never hear of this before!

That narcologist is the person who works with drug&alcohol abuse and my grandfather is one. That Japanese and Hebrew have same sounding words: shisha is feminine for six in Hebrew and branch office in Japanese.

As I was watching the biopic The Darkest Hour earlier today, the film revealed Winston Churchill had a very strange sense of humor. He used it to get British citizens to turn against the idea of negotiating peace talks with Germany.

That if it wasn't for that "someone toucha my spaghett" meme, I may have never watched the cartoon that inspired it.

Memes are based on the weirdest things. Who decided some old cartoon where The Three Bears are Italian stereotypes should become an internet phenomenon?

That Japanese gulch has a south trailhead.

I learned what edgar cayce's voice sounded like.

Well, this wasn't today, but i had a nightmare a few days ago that my apartment was on fire and i couldn't get to my fire extinguisher. In that dream i used a spray flask (or whatever it is called in English) to put the fire out. Now, i went and bought two and filled them with water, they are accessible from the other side of the apartment so i could get out if it happens.

I tried them in the bathroom (obviously without the fire ) and spraying with two on the shower wall like crazy will produce a very heavy misting definitely will put fire out. Not as good as a fire extinguisher but very efficient (I actually have fire suppression training with extinguishers).

This is what they look like, and they are a cheap life insurance:

Everything will be closed this Monday because it's "Family Day". I normally get my groceries on Monday and I have an eye appointment on Tuesday, so that complicates things somewhat. Maybe I'll stop and get groceries on the way home from the eye doctor and then call a cab. That will hopefully not take half an hour to show up like it did last Sunday!

I remembered how to make an origami figure during a meeting of my school's Japanese Club earlier today.

each day feels to be a few seconds shorter than the last one.

I learned that if you give someone a "thumbs up" in any European country outside the UK, it is the equal of giving someone the "middle finger" in the US.

that the body's various "purse strings" loosen as one ages.