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

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The hybrid offspring of a narwhal and a beluga whale is called a 'narluga'.

Boru

[The Magic Pudding.]

There is a "Big squarish dick-thing in Dune".
I don't know where
"You can see it when they're burning bodies, it's near the landing field."
I skimmed through a couple of times without success.
Now I am compelled to watch Dune and attempt to find "Big squarish dick-thing" and its purpose.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

There is a "Big squarish dick-thing in Dune".
I don't know where
"You can see it when they're burning bodies, it's near the landing field."
I skimmed through a couple of times without success.
Now I am compelled to watch Dune and attempt to find "Big squarish dick-thing"  and its purpose.

It's been found. Most blatantly when they're burning bodies after the fall of House Atreides. It's also seen the Atreides land.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The Coen brothers wrote the part of The Dude in The Big Lebowski specifically for Mel Gibson. Gibson didn't take their pitch seriously and turned down the part down.

Whew!

Boru

[Jackalope]

The Coen brothers wrote the part of The Dude in The Big Lebowski specifically for Mel Gibson. Gibson didn't take their pitch seriously and turned down the part down.

Whew!

Boru

That role would have been a bit of a stretch for Mel, what with not having a single drunken tirade or anti-semitic slur.

[emjay]

The Coen brothers wrote the part of The Dude in The Big Lebowski specifically for Mel Gibson. Gibson didn't take their pitch seriously and turned down the part down.

Whew!

Boru

Wow, he would have been soooo not right for it.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The Coen brothers wrote the part of The Dude in The Big Lebowski specifically for Mel Gibson. Gibson didn't take their pitch seriously and turned down the part down.

Whew!

Boru

Wow, he would have been soooo not right for it.

Yeah, well, you know, that’s just like, uh, your opinion, man.

Boru

[emjay]

Wow, he would have been soooo not right for it.

Yeah, well, you know, that’s just like, uh, your opinion, man.

Boru

LOL!

[Rev. Rye]

There’s a goat cheese from Norway that burns like gasoline.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

During the pre-construction phase of the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge in 1848, engineers were stymied about how to get the initial cable across the gorge; ideas considered including fixing the cable to a cannonball or rocket, or towing the cable across the river with a ferryboat, then using winches to raise it to the top of the gorge.

Engineer Charles Ellet came up with the idea of organizing a kite-flying contest, offering a prize of $5 (roughly $200 today) to any boy who managed to fly a kite across the gorge and secure the kite string to a tree on the far side. 16-year-old Homan Walsh succeeded, and successively heavier lines were pulled across the gap.

Boru