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If you become President of the United States of America you can no longer drive on public roads.

Dick Van Dyke is 92 and still alive and still a good dancer.

Wow that's amazing!! !

When I was younger and still dancing, my experience was the elder men had a smoothness not present in their younger counterparts.

I learned to drive my knee scooter today.

In Ohio, it is against state law to get a fish drunk.

I saw that once in Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin wore a mask on the back of his head to keep Hobbes from sneaking up and pouncing on him after learning about it on TV. But Hobbes just chomped down on Calvin's head while Calvin was bragging how Hobbes couldn't outwit a human right to *his* face.

I learned The swastika (as a character 卐 or 卍) is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon in the cultures of Eurasia, used as a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religion originally, before the Nazi party of the 1930's took appropriation of it and perverted the meaning into something of a symbol of racism and antisemitism..

I learned that opinions are held most strongly by those who lack any understanding of how real people really behave.

That the Alcubierre drive in Elite Dangerous slow down near mass, which means that you should approach the station with the planet (or mass) behind it and it will take less time to get there, sort of like landing in a curve.

Also, regardless of how good you are at flying with thruster at 100% inside stations (for a quick exit), the flight controllers don't appreciate it that much. This includes flying with the docking computer, that sometimes also use thruster to get quicker to the station.

I've learned that if game developers actually listen to their customers/fans things can become quite successful and promising

Pirates probably didn't wear eyepatches because of a missing eye; it's much more likely that they were keeping one eye ready to see in darkness, so that they could adjust quickly when going below deck.

I've learned that the reason American English and UK English differs so greatly, is due to the following--

Noah Webster

The first answer is to blame Noah Webster, of Webster's Dictionary fame. He believed it was important for America, a new and revolutionary nation, to assert its cultural independence from Britain through language. He wrote the first American spelling, grammar, and reading schoolbooks and the first American dictionary. He was also an ardent advocate of spelling reform and thought words should be spelled more like they sound.

Many years before he published his well-known American Dictionary of the English Language, he published a much smaller, more radical dictionary he called a Compendious Dictionary that included spellings such as w-i-m-m-e-n for "women" and t-u-n-g for "tongue." That dictionary was skewered and he dialed down the spelling reform in his final masterpiece. Yet still, Noah Webster, his affection for spelling reform, and the success of his final dictionary in 1828 are the reasons Americans spell words such as "favor" without a "u" (1), "theater" with an "-er" instead of an "-re" at the end, "sulfur" with an "f" and not a "ph" in the middle, and "aluminium" as "aluminum (2)."

Around Central Park, New York, it can cost almost $300,000 a year just for the right to operate a hot dog stand.

I learned--Crickets are 65%-70% protein whereas beef is 17%-40% protein

Flamingos can sleep in ponds that freeze around their legs at night, drink boiling water, and survive conditions that expose them to arsenic and poisonous gases.

Maybe people who eat meat need more crickets in their diets?