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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 31, 2026 at 6:43 am
Abraham Lincoln once wrote and published a true-crime short story (based on an actual case in which he defended the accused) called 'A Remarkable Case of Arrest for Murder'. Interested parties may read it
here.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
April 3, 2026 at 3:03 pm
‘Spaghetto’ is the accepted term for a single strand of spaghetti.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
April 3, 2026 at 5:31 pm
Apparently, salt and pepper shakers were originally sold in sets of THREE. And the third shaker was apparently (from what little evidence we could find) powdered mustard.
Also, bizarrely, some Zoomers find, of all songs, "Uptown Girl" by Billy Joel to be "sinister."
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
April 8, 2026 at 6:57 pm
Reading about router exploits and poking around in my router, I discovered that my router has free AI Protection if I wanted to enable it. It would tend to get in my way, but it's ironic discovering it now given I'll soon replace this router.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
April 8, 2026 at 8:55 pm
That someone is erroneously referring to himself as a cowboy.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
April 9, 2026 at 4:07 am
^'All hat, no cattle.'
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
April 9, 2026 at 8:10 pm
Apparently, Chewbacca has an ability to sense evil presences. Does this mean he's force-sensitive?
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April 15, 2026 at 6:54 am
When packed tightly in large quantities, pistachios will spontaneously combust in the presence of moisture.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
April 16, 2026 at 12:04 am
Apparently, Jehovah's Witnesses have quietly loosened their stance on blood transfusions
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