You learn something new everyday: what did you learn today?

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I learned how to install a graphics card into my new pc which is not standard size without it wreaking havoc on the other components in my system.

I learned this a while ago, but my husband almost didn't survive in utero. Makes me sad thinking about it.

I learned that "vixen", meaning a female fox or a beautiful woman, sounds the same as an offensive phrase in German that means "to jerk off".

This was after seeing a video game for the Amiga called Vixen in English-speaking countries. The title was changed to She-Fox in Germany.

relative clauses in persian are introduced by ke, a general relative pronoun.

How to do string comparisons in shell script so I can automatically start up with either one or two monitors in ubuntu.
They are not as easy as batch files

While listening to Sunday Night Safran on the radio, I learned about the Seventh-Day Adventist Church.

refusal to go to the bathroom because of anxiety can cause a "paradoxical" form of diarrhea in children.

Busch light is basically water

I learned about the different efforts at some US and UK universities to promote gender-neutral third-person pronouns. There are quite a few of them around being used. Hopefully one of them sticks, so that we don't have to keep saying "he or she" in English; plenty of other languages already have gender-neutral options. But if it all comes to naught in English, I'll just stick with singular "they".

Found out through a post on here that I'm probably "active but odd", which I find intriguing.

Spent over half a century not knowing I was an aspie btw.

I learned some locks really shouldn't be toyed with.

I finished "A Brief History of Time" and now i know a lot of facts about our universe.

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I learned that this called a culvert. I didn't know what they were called, because I just called them drainage pipes.

i've called them graffiti covered weedsmelling hangout thingies.

i've learned that a fiction piece was written about the mesa here in the 1800s.

I learned that, if you're as bad as I am at making others understand you can't speak at the moment, you'd better be ready to speak at any time, even if you're on your own and in a situation in which you rarely need to talk to anyone. Better not let some flimsy excuse, like having a monumental cold and not finding any good place to spit a lot of phlegm, prevent your voice from being heard on demand, lest someone ask for directions and you offend them when they can't understand your awkward gestures and you resume walking.

Judging by the way and the language in which he yelled at me, I think I narrowly escaped a beating ... for now.

Declawing a cat is more than removing their nails.