Things you were shockingly old when you learned

You'd be surprised what some people think

tastes better with the chocolate down because your taste buds are on your tongue, not the roof of your mouth, obv

back when we walked on all fours, your tongue would have been on the top of your mouth as you bent your head down to eat items off the ground. so it makes perfect sense that they originally put the chocolate on the top, they just never got round to updating it

Same thing with crackers that have salt on them. Better to orient them so the tasty bits face your tongue.

It’s weird i chew things and it mixes stuff around pretty good

Both Gary Cooper's parents were English and he went to school (for three years) in Dunstable!

orient them so the tasty bits face your tongue

Was reading the Calvin & Hobbes thread revival and learned this:

Classic Schultz quote:

"We actually had a dog called Snoopy. A real dog. Fans of the strip are not going to like this, but we got rid of him. He fought with other dogs, so we swapped him for a load of gravel."

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, April 14, 2003 12:42 AM (twenty years ago)

Was Snoopy a real Beagle? Because who would do that to a Beagle?

When a pug cross drastically improves the breed, that’s a beagle. well the offspring is a puggle

that the Christian community in Kerala dates from St Thomas, as in the actual apostle, who came to India?!

i rescind my beagle criticism. it was personal lol.

That Jennifer Jason Leigh’s father was Vic Morrow, notoriously killed while filming ‘The Twilight Zone’ movie.

whoa

Ralph Bates, star of various 70s Hammer movies and well known face on British TV, was the great-great-grandson of Louis Pasteur.

... apt because he played both Victor Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll, slightly less respectable scientists than his great-great-grandfather.

Legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins shot Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHhD4PD75zY

Oooo

It’s not Celcie Ville, it’s Selsey Bill

As noted by Madness in "Driving In My Car".

I have only just now cottoned on to the fact that there are two Wahlbergs, Mark and Donnie, and they're different people. I think that every time I saw the name I thought "oh, that Wahlberg guy" and forgot about it. How wrong I was!

they were in two different musical groups too

one lit a carpet on fire once

Which one did the underwear ads? I'm betting it was Mark.

yup. he was pretty jacked at the time

that the dipper of Big Dipper fame is one of these:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Dipper_%28PSF%29.png/1280px-Dipper_%28PSF%29.png

and not one of these:

https://www.scepter.com/media/rxindyvg/1gal-gas-1003-375_375-px.jpg

TIL that some people call gas cans dippers

not me. i just thought that's what the shape looked like, and i could imagine a "dipping" motion of putting gas in your car with one, so ...

I lit a carpet on fire once. and my real name is one of those. am I secretly a Wahlberg?

TBH until reasonably recently i thought the Big Dipper was based off

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/SLNSW_23962_Hollywood_Hotel_girls_at_Luna_Park_taken_for_Fullers_Theatres_Ltd.jpg

nkotb vs funky bunch in white boy steroid dance off

Donnie Poo doxxed

Today I learned the guitar parts for the Cure’s “Other Voices”. I’m 53. I’ve wanted to play it since I was 16.
Also, now I know why I love the broken chord shapes I typically play, they are all over that album and Seventeen Seconds.

Yes those chords are deliciously weird.

Note that Smith has also known to tune a little bit off, intentionally. Not like tuning everything down a specific amount - he wants it wrong, on purpose.

I've long been perplexed and intrigued by the obscure slur "butterface," but never actually knew what it meant. I enjoyed trying to determine what about someone's face would remind someone of butter. I mentioned this to a female friend recently, in the context of wondering why there's never been a band, to my knowledge, called Butterface, and she incredulously explained the origin of the word and let me tell you a small part of me died right there

Tip, in the sense of a gratuity, was originally an acronym ('to insure promptitude')

The meaning "give a gratuity to" is first attested 1706.

The popularity of the tale of the word's supposed origin as an acronym in mid-18th century English taverns seems to be no older than Frederick W. Hackwood's 1909 book "Inns, Ales and Drinking Customs of Old England," where it was said to stand for To insure promptitude

Don't blame me, blame the New Yorker factcheckers!

Tip, in the sense of a gratuity, was originally an acronym ('to insure promptitude')

I've heard so many fake acronym stories (posh, golf etc) that I'm immediately doubting this. I was once on a pleasure boat on the Thames where the tour guide proudly explained to us that "wharf" was an acronym for "warehouse at riverfront".

print the legend (to insure promptitude)

"Cabal" is another fakeronym.

Someone in my orbit once speculated that sic (Latin for "thus") stands for "spelling is correct."

Well in my defence, I read it in the latest New Yorker feature about tipping, and just assumed with their legendary factchecking that it was correct...

Both parts of Dick Tracy's name tying into police work. & him having had the possibilityof being called Plainclothes Tracy before they picked Dick.

One of a number of facts that I got out of a book on American Comic Strip Artists I've been reading.
Bit of a struggle since it's very oversize.

the in situ statue at mt. rushmore has a name which is “shrine of democracy.”

i mean many points re the controversy of its existence are mostly known by me. i just didn’t know it had a name and yet how could it not

Bit of a struggle since it's very oversize.

nice

Seemed to reproducecomic strip pages at close to original size which meant book was unwieldy.
So not sure what ideal setting for reading it would be. Reading room somewhere.
Had some very good stuff in plus biographies of the artists.

Recently learned those ‘stories’ on Instagram and Facebook allow the creator to see who viewed them.

Stories is such a bad feature

burrito = little burro

i love that one. and "taco" means "wad"