'You learn something new everyday'

[Slooow_Jo]

Do you believe the above saying? If so what have you learned today?

[spk]

Well a new day has just started for me sloow jo its 10am here but I think you learn something new everyday but sometimes its only little things so they dont feel like much. I baked a very tasty chocolate cake last night though I learned I can do that pretty well !! x

[lindapinda]

I learned that my next door neighbour is a bit of a looper! And I would be advised to have little to do with him!!

[jno]

I learnt the difference between rajah and maharajah, from one of Quizmonster's answers. I learn a lot of stuff from this site. The real stunner was finding that Rod Stewart played harmonica on My Boy Lollipop, but I've had other life-altering experiences too.

[Slooow_Jo]

& now you've all learned me something :)
so now I'm off to bed goodnight x

jno I'm going to share that snipet of Rod Stewart info tomorrow :)

[spk]

Night sloow jo sleep well ! x

[Rubyrose]

Yep. I do believe that and today I learnt that I can fix my laptop on my own. I have been cleaning the files for hours and I have done myself proud. :o)

[4getmenot]

Yes I was sent this e-mail

All porcupines float in water.
Armadillos are the only animals besides humans that can get leprosy.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is 'uncopyrightable'.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Norvelle Rogers is the real name of 'Shaggy' in Scooby Doo.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
If a statue in a park is of a person on a horse that has both front legs in the air, then the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
Starfishes have no brains.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

[Bohne]

Yes, I believe that!

I have learned that there are no Special Sunday jobs on a certain database.
I also learned that you can get pretzels in bakeries in Northern Germany.

[caz21]

I learned that David Blaine is'nt as good an illusionist as he likes to think...! ;o)

[Slooow_Jo]

4getmenot that was brill I'm a right wise ole bird now lol

caz21 what has he done now then?

[stylinsam]

i havnt learned anything new so far today as it is only 9.41

although i learn something new on this site everyday so i will be intrigued to find out what that new thing is today. il let you no when i found it out lol!!!

[loobie]

I learnt once again that the london underground is absolutely useless!!!

[4getmenot]

I did hear also that Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. But I'm still wondering about that one.

[Slooow_Jo]

Mmm 4getmenot my 2 are too old to test that on them, but my friend has a 1 year old,so I will investigate lol

[Slooow_Jo]

Did you know you only breathe through your nostrils one at a time? alternating every 20 minutes?

[4getmenot]

Yep that was my fact on here last week. But people disputed it :( But you have one positive nostril every 20 minutes. :-)

[4getmenot]

And the duck platypus is the only venomous mammal. :-)

[4getmenot]

Sorry duck billed platypus :-)

[aka pixi]

yep i learn something new every day problem is I forget it almost immediately :(

[OBonio]

I have a 9 month old and she has knee caps. And ducks quacks DO echo. http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.h tm

Other than that, yes I do believe you learn something new everyday. This morning alone I have learnt that the software I'm working on doesn't write to the event log of the server when a SOAP exception is raised which instead passes it back to the web services client which tries to display it but runs out of room.... which means I have no info to go on to resolve this error.