Today I Learned

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Today I learnt that the janitor at my old primary (elementary) school retired on Friday, on her 80th birthday, after doing janitorial work at the same school for 60 years! She started working there when she was 20. Wow.

TIL about "Copyparty". It's for sharing files, music, videos, etc. between devices:

In Anniston, Alabama: it's against the law to wear blue jeans while walking down Noble Street.

I can people watch without doing scratch tickets.

The idiom "death warmed over" has a different root than I'd thought. To me, it brought images of a dead body left out in the heat, which would be much worse in looks (& smell) than just a dead body. (I've used it all thru life w/o thinking about it literally. I think my interpretation is much more visual than the one it's from.)

It's more fun to be an elf than it is to be a soldier.

Lemons float in water, but limes sink.

For best results you can heat up a fruit filled Cornish style pasty on a shovel, over a candle

Makes perfect sense to me does that

I learned...

Giraffes are 30 times more likely to get struck by lightning than people.

Gone With The Wind is 3 hours and 44 minutes long

I learned today that the name of some person I know from fanfiction.net is Kenslee I swear, never before did I know such a name exists

There are more bacterial cells in your body than human cells

A brolliologist is a person who collects umbrellas

A triple 20 in darts is known as the "lipstick"

News to me that

That if you're in a (large) room with someone who doesn't know you're there, you're likely to hear them fart.