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

[no one]

The 144.

[Anomalocaris]

Steven Jay Russell, con man and subject of the film, I Love You Phillip Morris, once escaped from prison by faking AIDS. He used a combination of starving himself and using laxatives to lose so much weight that he was transferred to a prison hospital. While there, he phoned the prison posing a a doctor who said that Russell had been selected as one of the test subject for an experimental AIDS treatment and needed to report immediately. He simply walked out of the prison. Several weeks later, he contacted the prison authorities - posing as the same doctor - with the news that Russell had died.

He was eventually recaptured and is currently serving a sentence of 144 years.

Boru

damn,  that escape earned him 99 more years to his sentence.   you would think such a sentence is harsh for anyone who didn’t endanger lives to mount an insurrection

[Rev. Rye]

It’s possible to beat Tetris. And it looks like Generation Alpha’s somehow evolving to be able to do so.

[Silver]

Para bellum is Latin for "prepare for war" and is often used within the context of the phrase Si vis pacem, para bellum, meaning "If you want peace, [you should] prepare for war".

Wikipedia

[Anomalocaris]

Jupiter is about as large as any planet can get in normal circumstances.     Planets less massive than Jupiter would be physically smaller because they have less stuff.     Planets more massive than Jupiter would also be physically smaller because gravity from their added mass compressed their stuff so much that they actually take up less volume. 

The only planets that can get appreciably bigger than jupiters are gas giants locked in extremely close orbits about their stars.   The stars heat these planets so much that their atmosphere puffs out.

[Anomalocaris]

Toyota’s top of the line passenger car model in Japan has been the Toyota Crown since the late 1950s.    Toyota Crown is Toyota’s oldest model name still in its line up.    The emperor of Japan’s official car is a Toyota crown.

The ubiquitous Toyota Carolla’s name is actually the Latin word for “little crown”.

The even more ubiquitous Toyota Camery’s name is an English transliteration of the Japanese word for “little crown”.

In China the Toyota Carolla is called “oak leaf crown” after the oak leaf tiara by victorious Roman generals

[Rev. Rye]

Para bellum is Latin for "prepare for war" and is often used within the context of the phrase Si vis pacem, para bellum, meaning "If you want peace, [you should] prepare for war".

Wikipedia

And that’s why the third John Wick movie (available on Netflix now, along with the first two) was subtitled Parabellum.

[Rev. Rye]

I reviewed The BFG for Anglotopia 7 1/2 years ago and, somehow, people are still giving me shit over misidentifying Mark Rylance’s accent as Northern.

[Silver]

That Pamela Anderson seems to not be following the typical Hollywood trend of appearing younger.

[Angrboda]

She reminds me of a certain NPC in Baldur's Gate.