Canadian Bills Fan Posted May 10, 2018 Author Share Posted May 10, 2018 TIL Dave Grohl has tried to live as frugally as possible after watching his mother have a stroke while filing her taxes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted May 10, 2018 Author Share Posted May 10, 2018 Way to go Mr. Bean! TIL that in 2001 while on a holiday trip to Kenya, the plane that Rowan Atkinson and his family were in started to go down after the pilot had passed out. Atkinson managed to take control of the plane before the pilot woke up. The plane landed safely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted May 11, 2018 Author Share Posted May 11, 2018 TIL Kodak invented the digital camera in 1975 but hid the invention because they feared it would jeopardize photographic film sales Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 1 hour ago, Canadian Bills Fan said: TIL Kodak invented the digital camera in 1975 but hid the invention because they feared it would jeopardize photographic film sales That, and it probably cost in the low six figures and required a liquid nitrogen bath to work. (Worked with digital cameras in the 80s that were in the low five figures...and required a liquid nitrogen bath.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted May 14, 2018 Author Share Posted May 14, 2018 TIL Chris Brown is currently banned from entereng the UK, Australia, and New Zealand due to his criminal history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted May 15, 2018 Author Share Posted May 15, 2018 TIL Steve Jobs believed that his commitment to vegan diets meant his body was flushed of mucus and he was free from body odor, so he didn't need to wear deodorant or shower regularly. His former coworkers quote that he was 'very, very wrong' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keukasmallies Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 TIL that nothing Hill'ry Clinton has done since 2016 has changed my mind one scintilla - she's still an arrogant, elitist, self-aggrandizing, myopic, fat-thighed harridan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Hammersticks Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 3 hours ago, Keukasmallies said: TIL that nothing Hill'ry Clinton has done since 2016 has changed my mind one scintilla - she's still an arrogant, elitist, self-aggrandizing, myopic, fat-thighed harridan. Interesting. Sounds exactly like someone who is currently the POTUS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 1 hour ago, Johnny Hammersticks said: Interesting. Sounds exactly like someone who is currently the POTUS. He is not fat-thighed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 8 minutes ago, DC Tom said: He is not fat-thighed! not sure he is near-sighted either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 6 hours ago, Keukasmallies said: TIL that nothing Hill'ry Clinton has done since 2016 has changed my mind one scintilla - she's still an arrogant, elitist, self-aggrandizing, myopic, fat-thighed harridan. 3 hours ago, Johnny Hammersticks said: Interesting. Sounds exactly like someone who is currently the POTUS. Sounds like a good marriage match and result would be Keukasmallies. Problem his his father would not support special education for him. Please keep politics in PPP. The first one was clearly a political post. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keukasmallies Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 1 hour ago, Limeaid said: Please keep politics in PPP. The first one was clearly a political post. Fair criticism, deserved and noted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Today I learned that the insult "nimrod" comes from the Book of Genesis referring to the Assyrian King Tukulti-Ninurta I as "Nimrod," renown as "a mighty hunter before the Lord." It only entered the American lexicon as an epithet meaning "stupid, dull-witted person" in 1942, when Bugs Bunny called Elmer Fudd a "poor little Nimrod" in the theatrical short "Fresh Hare." Biblical myths of Assyrian kings, perverted by Merrie Melodies. Gotta love American culture. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted May 16, 2018 Author Share Posted May 16, 2018 TIL that prisoners in Auschwitz concentration camp attacked the SS guards with stones, axes, and makeshift hand grenades and killed 3 Nazi SS guards, one of whom was burned alive by the prisoners in the oven of Crematorium II. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 15 hours ago, DC Tom said: Today I learned that the insult "nimrod" comes from the Book of Genesis referring to the Assyrian King Tukulti-Ninurta I as "Nimrod," renown as "a mighty hunter before the Lord." It only entered the American lexicon as an epithet meaning "stupid, dull-witted person" in 1942, when Bugs Bunny called Elmer Fudd a "poor little Nimrod" in the theatrical short "Fresh Hare." Biblical myths of Assyrian kings, perverted by Merrie Melodies. Gotta love American culture. Nimrod was the founder of the Babylonian empire, historical claim on top of your "myth" putdown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 2 hours ago, row_33 said: Nimrod was the founder of the Babylonian empire, historical claim on top of your "myth" putdown So completely wrong it's funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted May 18, 2018 Author Share Posted May 18, 2018 TIL a scientist stationed in Antarctica managed to score a date through Tinder with a girl camping just 45 minutes away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted May 18, 2018 Author Share Posted May 18, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybeard Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 11 hours ago, Canadian Bills Fan said: TIL a scientist stationed in Antarctica managed to score a date through Tinder with a girl camping just 45 minutes away. I heard she was rather cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUFFALOKIE Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 12 hours ago, Canadian Bills Fan said: TIL a scientist stationed in Antarctica managed to score a date through Tinder with a girl camping just 45 minutes away. Not a lot of options, I suppose. BTW: Thanks CBF. I look forward to this thread daily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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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