What did you learn today?

Angrist · 10-20-2009, 10:27 AM

Nice, except that was a male cat. Most probably.

KillerGremlin · 10-20-2009, 03:47 PM

I have a weird memory quirk where I cannot remember my locker number. I can remember it's location though. I have found a way to remember my number though. Say my locker is "25." I'll think to myself before leaving, "Square root of 25 is 5." Then when I am in the locker room I'll be like, "square root of 25, oh yeah!" Or like today I had 23 and though, "The Number 23...". Anyway, that seems to really help me commit the number to memory.

Teuthida · 10-21-2009, 12:18 AM

I finally learned why "Eskimo" (Esquimaux) is considered pejorative. It's considered to mean "eaters of raw meat". Though there seem to be two other unoffensive possible meanings: "snowshoe netter" and "people who speak a different language".

Acebot44 · 10-21-2009, 01:56 AM

I learned that the legal consumption of alcohol tastes surprisingly the same as its illegal counterpart.

I also learned that Tuesday Night is Electro Night at the local college bar.

Lastly, I learned that the Dallas Stars used to be the Minnesota North Stars...surprised that tid bit of sports trivia never crossed my path before.

Typhoid · 10-21-2009, 02:20 AM

Don't get me started on pointless and random hockey knowledge. I know most of it from how many points a player got in a given year (unless it's an obscure player) and what arenas each team plays at barring a few in the East.

On that note, today I learned that when my cat scratches me accidentally, my skin gets irritated.

Angrist · 10-21-2009, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Teuthida

I finally learned why "Eskimo" (Esquimaux) is considered pejorative. It's considered to mean "eaters of raw meat". Though there seem to be two other unoffensive possible meanings: "snowshoe netter" and "people who speak a different language".

Yeah "eaters of raw meat" is so offensive because they never... oh wait.

Actually I don't know if they ever eat raw meat. And I've been saying Inuit in the last years.

A few weeks ago I learned that the often used term 'horeca' is short for hotel, restaurant and café. It's only used in Holland though.