What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[arewethereyet]

Very popular here...some restaurants even advertise it that way or mention that it's Mexican Coca-Cola on their menus.  I am not a fan of Coke so I am not that impressed.  Apparently it's made with real cane sugar and not corn syrup.  Here in Texas the Mexican soft drinks are a big deal.

I don't do carbonated drinks. Saw it mentioned in season two of Dead to Me. Had to look it up to see if it was a real thing.

It's a thing...it's the "real thing", if you will.

[Gwaithmir]

Parking meters were first used in Oklahoma City, 1935.

Parking meter - Wikipedia

[Angrboda]

I learned today that if you turn on a Chuck Norris film at any point during the movie, your experience is the same and you won't have missed anything important.

[Silver]

I learned today that if you turn on a Chuck Norris film at any point during the movie, your experience is the same and you won't have missed anything important.

I imagine the same is also true of any Steven Seagal movie.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I learned today that if you turn on a Chuck Norris film at any point during the movie, your experience is the same and you won't have missed anything important.

I imagine the same is also true of any Steven Seagal movie.

And Jean Claude Van Damme.

Must be something about the whole kicky, punchy motif.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

While watching 'The Rockford Files', I've notice that, in almost every episode, there's either a close-up or a lingering shot of the license plate on Rockford's Pontiac Firebird. The plate number is 853 OKG. I wondered if this had any significance so I looked it up.

The '853' stands for 'August, 1953', the month and year Garner got his first acting job. The 'OKG' is for 'Oklahoma Garner' - he was born in Norman, Oklahoma.

While I don't ever expect to do anything with this new knowledge, I'm happy to have it.

Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"They" can actually implant a device into your corpus callosum and talk to you when they do it.

[arewethereyet]

I learned today that if you turn on a Chuck Norris film at any point during the movie, your experience is the same and you won't have missed anything important.

My ex-husband took me to a Chuck Norris movie on our first date.  I'm pretty sure that's part of the reason the marriage didn't last.

[The Grand Nudger]

I made The Wife sit through 300 with me and my best highschool buddy when it came out - I think that might have been our first date-date.

Pretty sure she enjoyed it more than me or my boy did - and here we are today, still together, still making time to sit together in a dark room and watch a bunch of oiled up dudes grope each other.

[The Grand Nudger]

Additionally, I've continued to burn through lit on the warring states period in china, spurred on by a lost member of these boards. The dilemmas they faced present immanently sympathetic characters, and I've whittled more than a few hours away while tilling wondering, if I were Shihuangdi, whether I could have come up with a better solution.