Things you were shockingly old when you learned

My perpetual entry itt is 'pretty much anything relating to geography'. I am incredibly shit at remembering where discrete landmasses and territories are in relation to one another so pretty much every idle glance at a map is revelatory, sad to say.

Yeah, little kids get bacterial pink eye more because they don't wash their hands as often. POOP.

I just learned about the six flags for Six Flags theme parks yesterday.

Are there six actual flags? I assumed the first one was at a place called Six Flags, because that's the sort of thing a place might be called, in the US.

The name "Six Flags" originally referred to the flags of the six different nations that have governed Texas: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States, and the Confederate States of America.

hey I learned something new

dont mess with texas its not actually a thing

strangely the CSA is the one i always forget

just realized the TC on the minnesota twins cap (probably?) stands for twin cities. my face burns crimson with the angry shame of a fool uncovered

i have watched baseball for like 15 years and even wore that very hat for ~2 and never thought about it

Re the faeces stuff, most people don’t realise that the large intestine is basically a bioreactor which actively maintains a bacterial mix tailored to the kinds of things our own digestive systems are unable to handle. In some ways the stomach and small intestine are pre-processors - they extract the easy stuff from our food, and render the rest into forms that the bacteria can tackle. Without the colon crew we would get significantly less nutrition from our food. It’s even thought that the appendix exists because it’s a seed colony reservoir for the most essential bacteria, in case of e.g. a dysentery sweeping the bowel empty.

TC stands for "Traverse County", a county about as close to being between North and South Dakota as you can get. It also has the fewest people.

The "Minnesota" Twins just didn't want their smallest member to feel left out! That's how they are up there!

I DONT KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE

When they were the Washington Nationals, they also went by the moniker "The Congressionals".

'granary' isn't a generic type of bread, it's a Hovis trademark.
like 'cashpoint' I guess.

worst thing is I learned this from the bread packet. I've been buying that bread for years.

it appeared in the mid-70s, iirc

I haven't moved all that much. I once drew a latitude line from where I live now up to Canada, and all four cities I've lived in were within 20 miles of it.

But I keep seeing these flat, bumpy stink bugs lately, and I don't ever remember seeing them before. Keep in mind, I grew up in the fucking woods about an hour's north of here. So whenever these dudes get in the house, I wonder "are these city bugs?"

Turns out, they weren't "introduced" to the United States until 1998! And apparently, they didn't cross the Mississippi River until 2009. I'm not crazy, that's what I've learned!

https://i.imgur.com/9C8RP6P.jpg

Fuckers!

those fucking things keep showing up in my house and I hate them

There must be a related species that's been around longer than that -- I remember them as far back as the late 70s.

Yeah we had stink bugs that looked v similar in Tennessee when I was a kid

There was a big article in the New Yorker last year about the shockingly quick rise & dominance of the stinkbug in North America. I only recommend it if you can handle descriptions of peoples homes being overrun with untold thousands of stinkbugs.

I tried reading that one but I don’t think I could finish it, but I don’t recall if it was from disgust or sadness

yeah these are some new variety that came over in a shipment of tires, iirc

(xps)

'granary' isn't a generic type of bread, it's a Hovis trademark.

Whaaa? This is news to me!

The Benedictine Monks of Burton Abbey discovered that slowly toasting the malted wheat flakes used in their brewing process offered a distinctive taste when baked into their bread. It’s the malting process that gives our loaf its unique nutty flavour and scrumptious texture today.

The original malted bread apparently also formed the major part of the very first ploughman’s lunch and was the bread that was taken by farmers into the fields along with their cheese and ale! Why not try your own tasty ploughman’s lunch by pairing with your favourite choice of chunky cheeses (a mature Cheddar is our favourite go to!), pickled onions, chutney, pickles and two slices of delicious Hovis Granary® bread. Add tomatoes, spring onions, crunchy celery, or even a slice of apple too, if you fancy a bit more bite.

If it’s not Hovis® it’s not Granary®

Did you know that Granary® is not a type of bread? It is in fact a brand and a registered trademark of Hovis®.

huh, I was reading "granary" and thinking "that's where you keep your grain"

makes sense that someone would make it into a brand for a bread type, though

I thought it was a type of bread. My mother always bought granary and I don't think it was Hovis. That's not them being proprietary after the fact is it?
Trying to lay claim to something that was at one point more general.

Learned just minutes ago that Shazam! and Captain Marvel are two different 2019 films

I am assuming Shazam is a real version of the imagined 90s movie with Sinbad and I absolutely refuse to watch or listen to anything that will disabuse me of this notion

The sight of a stinkbug almost makes me grateful for the house centipedes that stalked my last apartment in Montreal. Almost.

Bed bugs overturn the 'almost'.

same here, CAL

Just learned that there were not thirteen but rather fourteen New British colonies in pre-Revolutionary America (pours one out for Nova Scotia).

omg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D0MXQZUXcAM3y1v.jpg

smashboy

They sound like a gaggle of toughs to me.

Wish it was true but sadly... pic.twitter.com/xk5vo44dWO

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I'm gonna take a guess that might be an Obvious Plant joint.

Just learned that there were not thirteen but rather fourteen New British colonies in pre-Revolutionary America (pours one out for Nova Scotia).

― Hangover Ape (Old Lunch), Sunday, April 7, 2019 6:39 AM(yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There were 20 British colonies in north america at the time of the revolutionary war, the ones in present day Canada were much more recent possessions (taken from French in war) and so did not have the same culture of self-government etc. while the 13 colonies did and were more similar and established so were more inclined to rebel and join together

I was well into my 20s before I found out why the Montreal Expos were called the Montreal Expos.

Halloumi cheese chips being deep fried cheese with no potato content. Have these things been around for a while or a re they a recent trend. Quite nice though , but may be prone to rapid overkill. Halloumi can be a little rubbery.
Was surprised to find taht Aldi had just launched them as a range, 'new' stickers on the shelf a week after i tried them in a local turkish cafe. Had been eyeing them on the menu for the last few months in there.
Have they been around a while or are thy a newish trend.

Derivation of Latin from Latium the region of Italy around Rome.

Hence Lazio.

yeah, slight morph in language over the last couple of millenia, like.

That gas doesn't have a scent but is odorized o_O

yeah cos of incidents like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z19IczVwsK0

Depends on the gas though dunnit.

Hfs that killed 295+, I’d not seen it before. Cleanup effort looks so shambolic and inefficient there.

Arthur Balfour and Henry Campbell-Bannerman were Scottish, meaning that of the first 7 British Prime Minsters elected in the 20th century, only two were English.