Canadian Bills Fan Posted May 22, 2018 Author Share Posted May 22, 2018 TIL that Irish American actor Robert De Niro was raised by an openly gay Catholic father and an atheist mother in New York just two generations after his family fled Ireland to escape the famine On 5/18/2018 at 8:31 PM, BUFFALOKIE said: Not a lot of options, I suppose. BTW: Thanks CBF. I look forward to this thread daily. My pleasure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted May 22, 2018 Author Share Posted May 22, 2018 TIL Adam Sandler actually pelted those children with dodgeballs in Billy Madison. He ended up making one of the kids cry. The parents were not happy and approached Sandler. He responded and said, “Didn’t they read the script?” and the parent said “They’re six, they don’t read yet.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted May 23, 2018 Author Share Posted May 23, 2018 TIL On September 8, 2009, Sgt. Dakota Meyer disobeyed a direct order to pull back from his position so he could rescue wounded soldiers from a firefight a mile away. He ended up going back five times, saving the lives of 36 soldiers, saying “That’s what you do for a brother”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted May 24, 2018 Share Posted May 24, 2018 On 5/18/2018 at 8:49 AM, Canadian Bills Fan said: TIL actor Rob Riggle was a Marine for 23 years, was a lieutenant colonel, and has received a combat award for his service in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Liberia. And is not funny But thank you for your service LC Riggle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted May 24, 2018 Author Share Posted May 24, 2018 TIL That when Crystal Pepsi was released, Coca-Cola released a competitor called Tab Clear, however Tab Clear was intentionally marketed poorly in order to hurt Crystal Pepsi's image by product association. The "born to die" strategy was successful and both campaigns were dead 6 months later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted May 24, 2018 Share Posted May 24, 2018 3 minutes ago, Canadian Bills Fan said: TIL That when Crystal Pepsi was released, Coca-Cola released a competitor called Tab Clear, however Tab Clear was intentionally marketed poorly in order to hurt Crystal Pepsi's image by product association. The "born to die" strategy was successful and both campaigns were dead 6 months later. Tab made a comeback. Still.may be out there, too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted May 24, 2018 Author Share Posted May 24, 2018 TIL that four times as many people are killed by ants every year than are killed by sharks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted May 24, 2018 Share Posted May 24, 2018 On 5/22/2018 at 11:58 AM, Canadian Bills Fan said: TIL Adam Sandler actually pelted those children with dodgeballs in Billy Madison. He ended up making one of the kids cry. The parents were not happy and approached Sandler. He responded and said, “Didn’t they read the script?” and the parent said “They’re six, they don’t read yet.” What? That's awful. What six year old can't read? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 13 hours ago, Canadian Bills Fan said: TIL That when Crystal Pepsi was released, Coca-Cola released a competitor called Tab Clear, however Tab Clear was intentionally marketed poorly in order to hurt Crystal Pepsi's image by product association. The "born to die" strategy was successful and both campaigns were dead 6 months later. Or maybe Crystal Pepsi just sounded too much like Crystal Meth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaoulDuke79 Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 Surface plots and DOE's in Minitab. Not sure I learned a ton, but I have decent notes. The math is way above my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted May 25, 2018 Author Share Posted May 25, 2018 TIL that the “ah-choo” sound people make when sneezing is a cultural learned behavior. For example, in the Phillipines they instead say “ha-ching”, the Japanese say “hakashun”, and deaf people don’t add any sounds at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fadingpain Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 On May 24, 2018 at 8:32 AM, Canadian Bills Fan said: TIL That when Crystal Pepsi was released, Coca-Cola released a competitor called Tab Clear, however Tab Clear was intentionally marketed poorly in order to hurt Crystal Pepsi's image by product association. The "born to die" strategy was successful and both campaigns were dead 6 months later. Seriously? Coke pissed money away on a deliberately bad product and supporting marketing campaign so as to wound a competitor's product? How much of the purchase price of a coke actually goes to the **** inside the can? This is further proof that marketing is morally one level beneath thievery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 I always thought Tab was a Pepsi product, haven't seen it since the 1970s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Info Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 (edited) TaB is still available but you have to look around. I tried TaB a few times many years ago and cannot understand why someone would pay a ridiculous price to procure it now with so many better tasting alternatives. But there is much about the human race that I do not understand. Some thought the name meant Totally artificial Beverage but Snopes rebutted that. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/keeping-tab/ Edited May 25, 2018 by Mr Info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted May 28, 2018 Author Share Posted May 28, 2018 TIL Michael Phelps considered suicide after the 2012 Summer Olympics. He started the Michael Phelps Foundation to help other people with mental illness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Hammersticks Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 On 5/24/2018 at 7:09 PM, DC Tom said: What? That's awful. What six year old can't read? Many 6 year olds at the schools where I work can’t even identify all of their letters. Back in the day they called that ****ty parenting. Today they refer to it as “acquired dyslexia.” Not kidding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbillievable Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 23 minutes ago, Johnny Hammersticks said: Many 6 year olds at the schools where I work can’t even identify all of their letters. Back in the day they called that ****ty parenting. Today they refer to it as “acquired dyslexia.” Not kidding. I knew my alphabet but wasn't able to read until 7years old. Although, I was doing 4th grade level math problems at the same age. I remember thinking that numbers made more sense then letters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted May 29, 2018 Author Share Posted May 29, 2018 TIL that the moon is 1/400th the size of the sun but also 1/400th the distance from Earth which results in the moon and the sun being the same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by any other known planet-moon combination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 I learned around 6 years old to project an image where people gave me 25 more IQ points than I deserve. It's been very valuable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Hammersticks Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 4 hours ago, row_33 said: I learned around 6 years old to project an image where people gave me 25 more IQ points than I deserve. It's been very valuable. Interesting. What image did you learn to project? My fav was the dog shadow puppet, but I’m not sure what kind of impact that had on my face value IQ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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