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God mode: Something you learned from actual experience and not online.

My dog has been scratching his ears a lot so we took him to the vet. Turns out he has a yeast infection in his ears. I thought yeast infections only happened in vaginas, but apparently dogs can get them in their ears.
 
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Country singer Dolly Parton anonymously entered a "Dolly Parton look-alike contest" but lost to a drag queen.
 
I've got Dog Penis fungus, aka Dog Stinkhorn, aka Mutinus caninus growing in my backyard.
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Getting a foxtail removed from your dogs skin costs like $500 and is quite dangerous. I had my dog outside for 5 years until she got an abscess from one. Clear that shit out of your yard people.
 
I learned last week that if you happen to hear a "hissing" sound behind your drywall, there is a good chance that a pipe might be leaking water. Yep....insurance claim.
 
In a sort of fashion you can say some turtles can breath out of their ass. Learned this watching a movie so god mode I guess. Looked it up to confirm and of course the scientific explanation fucks it up by distinguishing between a proper asshole and what these turtles use, but it's still basically true.
 
There are little tabs on the sides of Reynolds wrap boxes to keep the foil from popping out when you pull at it.
 
TIL that lime, nectarine and raspberry flavours work great as a tri-combo :D

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(Other than that I didn't really learn that much... Perhaps that people at work means more to me than I initially thought?)
 
It's apparently more expensive to do a sex change from girl to boy than vice versa.

I guess I may have known if I thought about it before, but oh well.
 
If you travel at the speed of light, regardless of distance, from your perspective you arrive at your destination instantly.
 
Just discovered my attraction to small/ short women.

Need to try being with a tall one someday ... always been attracted to tall women, never been with one though.
 
God mode: Something you learned from actual experience and not online.

My dog has been scratching his ears a lot so we took him to the vet. Turns out he has a yeast infection in his ears. I thought yeast infections only happened in vaginas, but apparently dogs can get them in their ears.

Here's something else for you, penises can also get yeast infections. Even circumcised ones.

Here's something I learned recently, if you drop down 480v AC to 60v AC and then run it through a DC rectifier then you have to calculate the VA on your transformer differently.
 
God mode: Something you learned from actual experience and not online.

My dog has been scratching his ears a lot so we took him to the vet. Turns out he has a yeast infection in his ears. I thought yeast infections only happened in vaginas, but apparently dogs can get them in their ears.

My dog had the same. He enjoys the eardrops, though, because his ears get rubbed well.

Also, random thing:

Plasmodesmata are not hollow tubes like I once thought. The opening in them are actually quite narrow and the ER runs through them.
 

Escape from Camp 14 is a great book if you haven't read it already.

I recently got a puppy, and learned about how dangerous certain brands of dog food/treats are. Its scary and I am surprised at how little regulation there is for pet food. I went online to research it more, and found tons of stories of dogs being sick and having to go to the hospital, or death shortly after eating certain brands of food. Also that vets get paid off to recommend food, such as Science Diet.
 
There are two little cuts on the sides of plastic/aluminium. wrap packages. If you push them, it holds the roll and makes it easier to unroll it.

It's dumb, but it fucking changed my life.

(Oh, beaten, badly...)
 
But Niel Degrasse Tyson said it was true on a podcast.
Niel Degrasse Tyson is a very smart person, but something must have been taken out of context.

It takes a photon (traveling at the speed of light) 8 minutes and 19 seconds to get to earth... the light illuminating the ground outside has spent 8 minutes and 19 seconds traveling from the source. Photos of deep space do not represent current images. The images of stars we see in the nights sky actually represent stars that are billions of years old because it's taken their light that long to travel the great expanse of space.

The speed of light is fast... but it's not teleportation.
 
Salmon is actually pronounced "SAH-MAN", not "SAHL-MAN" as I always said.

Wondered why the Applebees waitresses laughed at me when I ordered Grilled Salmon. :(
 
Salmon is actually pronounced "SAH-MAN", not "SAHL-MAN" as I always said.

Wondered why the Applebees waitresses laughed at me when I ordered Grilled Salmon. :(

What, really?
I didn't know this at all. Jeeze I've been saying it wrong all my life then!
(I always thought "sah-man" was a way to say it in a Northern accent..)
 
Niel Degrasse Tyson is a very smart person, but something must have been taken out of context.

It takes a photon (traveling at the speed of light) 8 minutes and 19 seconds to get to earth... the light illuminating the ground outside has spent 8 minutes and 19 seconds traveling from the source. Photos of deep space do not represent current images. The images of stars we see in the nights sky actually represent stars that are billions of years old because it's taken their light that long to travel the great expanse of space.

The speed of light is fast... but it's not teleportation.

Well technically, it's impossible to travel at the speed of light, but if you could then your mass would become infinite (existing in every point in the universe). So using actual light to disprove the statement doesn't really work, since mass traveling at the speed of light and light traveling are two very different things.
 
How do you salmon eating non-tab using plastic wrap unravelers keep from shitting yourselves everyday? Fucking hell.
 
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