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Amb · Amb the Hitched.

Today I learned:

Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948. I did not know he died to an assassin.

Chad and Romania have the same flag. (For all intents and purposes)

RDuck* · Guest

^ I learned this. ^

groza528 · No Place Like Home

RubberDuck, is that an agreement or a response? As in "I was surprised to learn that Amb didn't know Gandhi was assassinated."
Wink

RubberDuck · You're the one

Both.

Quailman · His Postmajesty

Today I learned that big cats are attracted to Calvin Klein's Obsession.

Scientists can use this knowledge to attract wild cats for census taking and other studies.

Amb · Amb the Hitched.

it was only recently I learned that Alaska was purchased off the Russians. The person who mentioned it to me was a GLer, and I thought he was having me on!

(Recent as in the last 3-5 years or so)

Death Mage · Raving Lunatic

They at least made a better deal with the Alaska (though they had no idea about the oil or gold) than France made with most of the continental US for a handful of "magic" beans.
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The Potter · Feat of Clay

I realized that I cannot recall watching an entire episode of Star Trek. /hopeless
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Quailman · His Postmajesty

Last week I was listening to a cassette tape on the way back from SC with my son. I said to him as it started, that Velma Kelly sounded a lot like Bebe Neuwirth, whom most of you know as Fraser Crane's wife, Lilith on Cheers. My son only knows her as Aunt Nora in Jumanji. The more I listened the more it sounded like her. I had been expecting to hear Catherine Zeta-Jones before realizing the tape was made well prior to the movie. I looked on the liner notes, and sure enough, it was Bebe Neuwirth.

Today I happened to check and found that she won a Tony Award for her performance in the 1997 revival. She's played in a bunch of musicals starting with A Chorus Line in 1975 and including Lola in Damned Yankees. She even went back more recently to play Roxie Hart in Chicago again. Who knew?

Courk* · Guest

Amb · Amb the Hitched.

I grew up living next door to a cat breeder. She bred Birman Cats. I had a paid job cleaning out cat trays each day. The cats used to view our house as part of their property, so it was not unusual to have 5 or 6 cats inside, and more outside. Admittedly, the neighbour was also a relative. And I liked cats.

So when I learned something yesterday, I was staggered. It was this: Cats only meow for humans, and almost never to each other.

Try as hard as I could - I could not remember a single incident where cats had meowed at each other. But I still didn't believe it. So I checked with said relative, and she verified that this fact was true. It's the fact that I grew up around lots of cats and didn't know this that makes it so surprising to me.

Gomez · candid chimera

I learnt that Matt Smith was leaving Doctor Who at Christmas, which is pretty much a major bummer for a Who-addict like me.

Death Mage · Raving Lunatic

Youtube seems to disagree about cats
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RubberDuck* · Guest

I learned that they have engineered goats to have the spider silk protein in their lactating milk, so they can process the goat milk and fabricate or farm spider silk.

Jack_Ian · Big Endian

Bees discharge a flower's electric field when they land on it and examine the electric field in flight to determine if a flower is worth visiting (i.e. has been visited recently).

Scurra · Daedalian Member

Oh wow. Thank you for that. <Briefly wonders if knowing that will ever be of any use in a trivia quiz. Decides it won't be, so forgets it immediately.>
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3iff · very unbifflike

Yes it was interesting...and a fairly elegant solution to a problem (that bees must have).

I've mentally made a note of the fact that Scurra now knows that bit of trivia so there's no point in me using it, but I too will almost certainly forget it instantly.