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

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

There's a saw that goes by the name fret.

Also a hammer.



Boru

[Lucian]

That precisification is a word and that “evolutionary psychology is science in the same way that Taco Bell is authentic Mexican food”

[Rev. Rye]

There is apparently a copy of the Mona Lisa in the Prado made by one of Leonardo’s students. And, apparently, whatever student painted it seems to have used a varnish that didn’t yellow with age, or, if it did, it’s apparently easier to restore than the original.

[Rev. Rye]

I’ve been reading Bill Bryson’s At Home, and it’s a really interesting book with a lot of fascinating factoids. The two most interesting factoids:
1) The origins of corn were are not only mysterious, but so contentious that a conference to settle the matter once and for all in 1969 turned into a shouting match with nothing actually accomplished.
2) Until the 1840s, the Chinese were the only people who knew how to turn tea leaves into a form suitable to turn into tea.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I’ve been reading Bill Bryson’s At Home, and it’s a really interesting book with a lot of fascinating factoids. The two most interesting factoids:
1) The origins of corn were are not only mysterious, but so contentious that a conference to settle the matter once and for all in 1969 turned into a shouting match with nothing actually accomplished.
2) Until the 1840s, the Chinese were the only people who knew how to turn tea leaves into a form suitable to turn into tea.

Bryson's always a good read. One of my go-to books when I have to argue with waterheads is his 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything'.

Boru

[arewethereyet]

I’ve been reading Bill Bryson’s At Home, and it’s a really interesting book with a lot of fascinating factoids. The two most interesting factoids:
1) The origins of corn were are not only mysterious, but so contentious that a conference to settle the matter once and for all in 1969 turned into a shouting match with nothing actually accomplished.
2) Until the 1840s, the Chinese were the only people who knew how to turn tea leaves into a form suitable to turn into tea.

Bryson's always a good read. One of my go-to books when I have to argue with waterheads is his 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything'.

Boru

Agreed, he is an interesting author with some really good books.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Vincent Price’s paternal grandfather invented the first cream of tartar-based baking powder, which made the family very, very wealthy.

Boru

[A. Secular Human]

There is apparently a copy of the Mona Lisa in the Prado made by one of Leonardo’s students. And, apparently, whatever student painted it seems to have used a varnish that didn’t yellow with age, or, if it did, it’s apparently easier to restore than the original.

I've seen it.  Way more impressive then the "original", which I've seen, too.

Madrid is an interesting city, but I prefer Barcelona.

[Angrboda]

Some bulgogi sauce is spicy and some is not. If you want to make the kind that isn't spicy into the spicy kind, just add gochujang.

I'm lazy though. I went to a store that sells the spicy kind.

[A. Secular Human]

Some PV cables are impervious to mechanical wire-strippers.