Today I Learned: Blowout Edition - Page 2

Miss Lizzy · 01-24-2018, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by TheFrenzy

Today I learned that Teddy Roosevelt supported a plan to import hippos into America and release them in the Louisiana swamps. The idea was that they would eat up some specific plants that were killing off valuable fish and in turn could be ranched and processed into "lake cow bacon" to remedy the meat shortage of 1901.

The Crazy, Ingenious Plan to Bring Hippopotamus Ranching to America

Great, now I'm wondering what hippo meat tastes like....

Wombat · 01-24-2018, 11:01 PM

there's nothing like a lake cow BLT

coltsnsox07 · 01-24-2018, 11:45 PM

Mr. Owl ate my metal worm, dammit I'm mad. Was it a rat I saw? A Santa lived as a devil at NASA, Eva, can I stab bats in a cave?

TheFrenzy · 01-24-2018, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by coltsnsox07

Mr. Owl ate my metal worm, dammit I'm mad. Was it a rat I saw? A Santa lived as a devil at NASA, Eva, can I stab bats in a cave?

Race Car!

Able I was ere I saw Elba!

LCM1223 · 01-25-2018, 01:14 AM

TIL there's a popular Reddit community called r/TodayILearned where people post things they learned

jdandns · 01-25-2018, 01:32 AM

The Mengele Effect is very real.

RW3FAN · 01-25-2018, 01:37 AM

Today I learned you can get into the HOF by pitching only 60.5 innings per season if you pitch long enough.

arek · 01-25-2018, 02:18 AM

I learned that playing call of duty from 8pm until 1am makes it hard to get to sleep

Firerunner4 · 01-25-2018, 02:49 AM

That my wife is banned from eating Kashi cereal, sweet jesus

majestik101 · 01-25-2018, 02:59 AM

Today I learned that you can watch Thor: Ragnorok in HD for free if you know where to look

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/22/1...re-apple-vudu?

Boo · 01-25-2018, 06:55 AM

I learned that some people on BO have a very limited vocabulary...

#AllRise

Tom

Brady

Let me see your Balls.

JosieD · 01-25-2018, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by TheFrenzy

Post one thing, no matter how insignificant, that you learned today.

Today I learned that eating kiwis with the fur still on is life-changing.

So much easier to eat.

I have always eaten them this way. People looked at me like I had a second head when I told them this.

ssbledsoe · 01-25-2018, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Cavaliercards

A large Paypal Gift awaits those that accomplish that task.

Today you learned that I'll take my payment in Bledsoe's...to hell with the PayPal!

hairysasquatch · 01-25-2018, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by TheFrenzy

Not really today, but some things I've read up on recently are:

- The relic cards that we like to collect can be traced back to the massive collections of religious relics owned by the Church and various princes. In fact, forgiveness for sins and reduced time in purgatory could be earned simply by gazing on certain relics. One collection in Wittenberg could grant a viewers up to 14 million days worth of indulgences.

So basically, everything we love about the hobby ties back to either Christianity, paganism, or secular philosophy. I think that's pretty awesome.

You left out that this also serves as a kind of Ur-story for Poopnini Points and arguably the whole phenomenon of "redemptions," as well.

rcgdodge · 01-25-2018, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Miss Lizzy

Great, now I'm wondering what hippo meat tastes like....

I'm sure Boo knows.

TheFrenzy · 01-25-2018, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by hairysasquatch

You left out that this also serves as a kind of Ur-story for Poopnini Points and arguably the whole phenomenon of "redemptions," as well.

Nicely done.

Are you a humanities guy? Also could have gone with Luther protesting the Catholic Church behaving like a "proto-Poopnini."

3AND4 · 01-25-2018, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by BostonNut

I learned the difference between lose and loose.

ROTFLMAO!

Hallco · 01-25-2018, 03:38 PM

I learned that not a day can go by without someone mentioning the name Lebron on the basketball forum!

BostonNut · 01-25-2018, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Hallco

I learned that not a day can go by without someone mentioning the name Lebron on the basketball forum!

Or Judge in the baseball forum

Or Brady in the football forum

calculusdork · 01-25-2018, 04:54 PM

Today I learned ... Jordan B Peterson.

preakness · 01-25-2018, 08:04 PM

Dude, a crapload of people died in that Jim Jones Africa colony stuff

TheFrenzy · 01-25-2018, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by preakness

Dude, a crapload of people died in that Jim Jones Africa colony stuff

Dude…….I'm sitting in class right now and Jonestown JUST came up in the discussion.

Weird…..

preakness · 01-25-2018, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by TheFrenzy

Dude…….I'm sitting in class right now and Jonestown JUST came up in the discussion.

Weird…..

I'm sitting behind you in class

Let's grab a bite after class ---- lucky we were no where near Apache and Rural road yesterday afternoon

preakness · 01-25-2018, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by TheFrenzy

Dude…….I'm sitting in class right now and Jonestown JUST came up in the discussion.

Weird…..

next thing you know, that dude in the corner with the hat will start talking about Waco and David K / The Branch

TheFrenzy · 01-25-2018, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by preakness

next thing you know, that dude in the corner with the hat will start talking about Waco and David K / The Branch

You joke, but it's a class on Cosmogony, Eschatology, and Apocalypse.

So the Branch Davidians were up next. Along with Roman mystery cults, the Beatnik liminality, and Aztec apocalypses.

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