Guess what I learnt today :)

[Chain Mailer]

Anyone know the saying 'A day without learning is a day wasted'? Well I figured that there should be a thread to prove that even student days aren't wasted.
So, what totally new thing did you learn today?
Today I learnt how to inflict accute physical pain onto another human being with only my thumb and finger

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Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious

[Thalia]

Today i learnt that the Milky Way is about 100 000 light years long...although unfortunately i didn't learn it until after it came up in my test today

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[s]A Question
A voice said, Look me in the stars
And tell me truly, men of earth,
If all the soul-and-body scars
Were not too much to pay for birth.
---Robert Frost[/s]

[Atangaladhion]

I learnt that "Strudel" is actually German for "Whirlpool".

[Pender Native]

Surely this thread is going to have a cumulative effect, so that everyone who reads this is going to learn umteen new things? I learned yet more problems facing the would be anthropological fieldworker!

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'I like to listen to a man who likes to talk. Whoops! Sawdust and Treacle, put that in your herring and smoke it!' - quote from the Bursar in Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. Hope that clears up any confusion as to my personal tastes!

[the reason for the word w]

To be precise: Strudel is the word for swirl, whirlpool would be Sprudelbad. Now I know that the dictionary says Strudel means whirlpool, but no German would agree with that. I guess I just learned that dictionaries can be wrong.

I also learnt today that deer's fur changes colour in winter.

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What ravages of spirit
conjured this temptuous rage
created you a monster
broken by the rules of love

[DrAlex]

I learned that I fetch £20 at auction...well technically I learned that last night

[amac]

I learnt what Mangina meant, and i'm so much better for it.

[niall]

i learnt that multimap doesnt know wheree aberdeen crematorium is

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do you have a tastyspoon?

http://www.tastyspoon.com/forum

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[Smith]

I learned that I have been banned from the union indefinitely for a crime i didn't commit. Needless to say, I'm more than a bit pissed off.

edit: I know I mentioned this last night but it was word of mouth then, and I actually went to the union today and got turned away, following a 10 minute argument.

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I tried thinking of an innovative witty remark, but could only come up with this...

[legohead]

I learned that The Sims two university pack, though entertaining, is actually quite a depressing thing to be playing while actually at university.

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This is for all those headless acrobats
faces crushed in the circus dust
all in the name of gravity
and the price of admission

[Cain]

That there is a word such as coterminous, and that it means "to have the same boundaries."

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I hold an element of surprise

[Chain Mailer]

I learnt that silk is one of the strongest materials known because of the way it is woven and because of this it was used in one of the first bullet proof vests and samurai armour fancy that (ain't New Scientist interesting!)

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Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious

[Bitterandtwisted]

while doing an essay I discovered that boredom in fact can't kill you. Though you may wish it could.

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... and so, with nothing left to live for, he obeys the chanted command from the distant crowd below.

[Pan]

when i learn something new, i usually learn it from flayrewayrer or my brother and its usually about animals having sex or something of the like...:s

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"Last time you gave me a pie, I cut into it, and birds flew out of it, hitting me in the face and chin. I was confused. It was a trick pie"

[Haunted]

I learned that The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy wasnt as bad as I thought it would be, could have been alot worse.

[bramble]

I learned that the biggest killer of beavers is falling trees


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Its time to breathe. Time to believe. Let it go and run towards the sea. They dont get it i want to scream, i want to breathe agan, i want to dream

[morn_69]

Today I learned that when u translate the lyrics for a Rammstein song they make less sense, in english, than they do to me in German (even though I dont speak German)

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A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

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[Rilla]

Today I learnt that Gamma distributions are in fact very versatile and interesting. and useful.
also i learnt that I am remarkably weird and impatient with people. but i knew that already, i just forget every now and then and re-learn it sort of.

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"Certainty is not the same thing as Truth"

[Humphrey]

Quoting Smith from 22:21, 28th Apr 2005
I learned that I have been banned from the union indefinitely for a crime i didn't commit

Thats kinda like the A-Team, except really pants. I got banned from the Cellar Bar once for calling myself a wanker, that one really confused me.

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http://www.livejournal.com/users/humphrey_clarke/

[flossy]

Turpentine comes from pine resin.
People used to wear zeolites as jewellery before they realised that they're bloody good catalysts.

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Make a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day.
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.