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

[Anomalocaris]

During WWI, more American soldiers died of the Spanish flu contracted in the tight confines aboard troop ships transporting them to battlefields in Europe than the number of American merchant and naval personnel who were killed by enemy action.

[Anomalocaris]

Radiation poisoning does damage primarily by temporarily breaking down water molecules they encounter in the human body, creating free radicals which then attack the organic components of the cell. Therefore susceptibility to radiation poisoning is correlated to body water content. The higher the water content, the higher the susceptibility.

Muscle is more water than fat. So lean people are more susceptible to radiation poisoning than fat people. men tend to have lower body fat than women, so men tend to be more susceptible to radiation poisoning than women. young people tend to have higher water content then older people, so younger people tend to be more susceptible than older people. so underweight infant boys tend to be most susceptible to radiation poisoning, while overweight older women tend to be the least susceptible.

[arewethereyet]

My bank more than doubled my credit limit on my credit card through them. I didn't request it and was confused looking at my available balance...it was a lot more than I expected. I am going to try to pretend it's not there.

[Silver]

My bank more than doubled my credit limit on my credit card through them. I didn't request it and was confused looking at my available balance...it was a lot more than I expected. I am going to try to pretend it's not there.

Better than what our bank did, I suppose.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Benjamin Franklin onse proposed a new phonetik alphabet whikh would eliminate the letter 'c'. It would be replased by the letters 's' or 'k', depending on the sirkumstanses.

Boru

[arewethereyet]

A group of ferrets is called a business.

[neil]

Benjamin Franklin onse proposed a new phonetik alphabet whikh would eliminate the letter 'c'. It would be replased by the letters 's' or 'k', depending on the sirkumstanses.

Boru

What was his motive/rationale for doing this?

Is it similar to the reason for changing some English words like "colour" to "color"?

[polymath257]

Benjamin Franklin onse proposed a new phonetik alphabet whikh would eliminate the letter 'c'. It would be replased by the letters 's' or 'k', depending on the sirkumstanses.

Boru

Mark Twain supposedly had a comment about this (although authorship is debated):

"For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer 
be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 
might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it 
with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.

Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 
or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi 
ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld. "

[Anomalocaris]

Benjamin Franklin onse proposed a new phonetik alphabet whikh would eliminate the letter 'c'. It would be replased by the letters 's' or 'k', depending on the sirkumstanses.

Boru

What was his motive/rationale for doing this?

Is it similar to the reason for changing some English words like "colour" to "color"?

to bring consistency and simplicity to spelling in the english language.  i recommend John McWhorter’s Our Magnificent Bastard language for a popular account of how english came ti be the mess it is, by a professional linguist with a focus on formation and evolution of spoken and written languages.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Benjamin Franklin onse proposed a new phonetik alphabet whikh would eliminate the letter 'c'. It would be replased by the letters 's' or 'k', depending on the sirkumstanses.

Boru

What was his motive/rationale for doing this?

Is it similar to the reason for changing some English words like "colour" to "color"?

I’m not sure he had a motive, other than his well-documented inability to leave well enough alone. Fecking meddler.

Boru