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

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I was up late last night watching "Crimes of the Century" on CNN. I thought the media and the justice system in the US was severely messed up, but in Italy it's even worse. Paparazzi got that name for a reason. If someone in Italy accused of murder just happens to be young, attractive, female and American, they sensationalize it to death.

This was sometime yesterday, but I learned that in pirated copies of The Sims 4 everything is pixelated - not just the Sims' non-existent private parts.

And not long before that I learned that it's spelled "espresso", not "expresso". Thank you, Mr. Resetti.

Some domestic perrots dance crazy with their head when you put on music.

That life is unfair, no matter how you live it.

I learned yesterday that if you look at bad events in your life as opportunities,
then you are on the way to your happiness.

Remember the bad things in your life, you will realize that you learned things out of it (things that you would not have learned otherwise).
Sometimes, "Bad things" were also doors closed that opened you all others.

You, and only you decide how you want to look at things now, and how you use it to create your future.
It's the great power of your mind.

I read a book today on how to make homemade wine.

I learned that you could meow and howl....and get smiles if you're in the street, but scowls if you're on the subway.

Because the person before me would either skip me or force me to draw two or four cards. I used to be so good at this game, but now I suck at it, and lost to my husband. It's a dumb game and I never want to play it again!

I've accidentally learned the German phrase for 'intellectual property' (geistiges Eigentum) is etymologically equivalent to saying ghosty's owndom (as in "owndom pertaining to that which is ghosty") in English. I like how ghastly it sounds.

That the antidote to Ethylene Glycol (automotive antifreeze) is...........

Ethanol (same alcohol you drink) except given in IV form.

Ain't that interesting?

Don't go trying that at home, kids.

I learned that you can use X forwarding on a client Linux system with the -X option using ssh regardless of what your ssh config file says.

I also (re)learned how to beat the Water Temple in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

That I have worse anger issues that Charlie Sheen. All the women he ever loved left him because of it, and I am scared my husband will leave me for the same reason.

I learned I suck even more at life than I thought I did.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away; eating three a day keeps 'em from rotting away.

That eating a whole bag of potato chips can give you more radiation that living near or next to a nuclear power plant. (got this one from 'Merican Facts)

Mom doesnt appreciate learning that her salad fell out of the fridge when you opened the door and you put the contents back in the container after they fell on the floor...and you lied and said her salad looked messed up because I put the tomatoes from my salad into hers.