What have you learnt today? 2016 (better late than never)

[Essex Boy]

How about the imam, he is from the UK i believe.
How come the UK produce so many imams, is the UK a muslin country? LOL

Thanks for that happy accident, Telstra. http://www.muslintrust.org/ The things you learn!

Under British rule, the British East India company could not compete with the local Muslin with their own export of cloth to India. Muslin production was repressed and the knowledge eradicated. Local weavers were systematically rounded up and their hands mutilated with removal of their thumbs.

 

[pat grimshaw]

I praise this revival of one of Belamo's most popular threads.

 

[LeicsDom]

I learnt you shouldn't go near the water in Florida. Ever

 

[Vannie]

After eating a spicy bean burrito,I can hear mariachi music

 

[luckynumbah7]

I learnt you shouldn't go near the water in Florida. Ever

That's actually on my list of why I'm never visiting Florida. I didn't learn this today, but a week hasn't passed yet, so what the hell; I learned there's apparently no irony when someone puts up a bathroom sign and the braille is, apparently, only printed to seem 3 dimensional. Way to go Pennsylvania Convention Center, you useless fuck. Not a raised dot in the place. Days later and it still irritates.

 

[Natello4]

Saving some of the train tickets is a good thing because the company will compensate the commuting costs.

 

[Aron9000]

Speaking of colonial Britian, I watched a documentary about foreign intervention in Afghanistan. I learned the Brits invaded Afghanistan twice. First time in 1840ish, the occupying army of 4500 retreated from Kabul, only one man reached Pakistan. Never before or since had the British army been so utterly slaughtered and defeated in battle.

 

[LeicsDom]

That's actually on my list of why I'm never visiting Florida.

I have no problem with visiting Florida (again)
I just wouldn't go near any water except the open sea

 

[gsdx]

My aunt died yesterday. She was the wife of my mother's younger brother. He died last year.

I read her obituary today and learned that she came from a very large family: 8 sisters (one still living) and 8 brothers (one still living). Seventeen children!

 

[purina]

I have learnt that the little kids on the next block down from me, which I frequently walk down to visit my best friend, have a name for me with which they greeted me today - Mr. Eek. From that and the comment one made at some other time that they liked my shoes (B. A. Mason No. 528 Romeos) I deduce that they probably mean to imply I bear a resemblance to Frankenstein or Lurch or some such sort of large horror creation. I smiled and waved back at them from across the street as I, unlike them, am allowed to cross the street by myself.

 

[pat grimshaw]

Speaking of colonial Britian, I watched a documentary about foreign intervention in Afghanistan. I learned the Brits invaded Afghanistan twice. First time in 1840ish, the occupying army of 4500 retreated from Kabul, only one man reached Pakistan. Never before or since had the British army been so utterly slaughtered and defeated in battle.

There are two sides to every story.

 

[rareboy]

^ And then there's just history. And empires.

The First Anglo-Afghan War (also known as Auckland's Folly) was fought between the British East India Company and Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842, and ended in an overall Afghan victory.[2][3][4][5][6] It is famous for the killing of 4,500 British and Indian soldiers, plus 12,000 of their camp followers, by Afghan tribal fighters, but the British defeated the Afghans in the concluding engagement.[1] It was one of the first major conflicts during the Great Game, the 19th century competition for power and influence in Asia between the United Kingdom and the Russian Empire.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Afghan_War

 

[Essex Boy]

In Brazil, it is illegal to cut down a Brazil nut tree. As a result, they can be found outside production areas, in the backyards of homes and near roads and streets. The fruit containing nuts are very heavy and rigid, and they pose a serious threat to vehicles and people passing under the tree.

The fruit takes 14 months to mature after pollination of the flowers. The fruit itself is a large capsule 3.9–5.9 in in diameter, resembling a coconut endocarp in size and weighing up to 4.4 lb. It has a hard, woody shell 0.31–0.47 in thick, which contains eight to 24 triangular seeds 1.6–2.0 in) long (the "Brazil nuts") packed like the segments of an orange.

Brazil nuts contain small amounts of radium, a radioactive element, in about 1–7 nCi/kg or 40–260 Bq/kg, about 1000 times higher than in several other common foods.

 

[frankfrank]

there's apparently no irony when someone puts up a bathroom sign and the braille is, apparently, only printed to seem 3 dimensional. Way to go Pennsylvania Convention Center, you useless fuck. Not a raised dot in the place. Days later and it still irritates.

Ye gods, talk about pointless, useless AND stupid. All of these.

This fact I just read, is certainly a very surprising statistic: (this is a bad link, but it actually takes you to a pretty cool .gif, one of the coolest error messages I've seen in years)

3. 1 in 8 Americans has been employed by a McDonald’s.

allkindofgifsforyou.tumblr.com

 

[Latimer]

Aman Resorts has three beautiful hotels in China, two of them spectacularly beautiful. The Peking one is located in the Summer Palace.


https://www.aman.com/resorts/aman-summer-palace

 

[GreyUnderscore]

Today? Nothing. This month? Tons.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

tink a sumthang
_untils_


tinku

 

[luckynumbah7]

I learned that if you have an oral fixation, sunflower seeds can replace cigarettes. Aside from the nicotine-headache withdrawal, I seem to be fine. Did great quitting until I moved, thank gods for the seeds. Day three of the migraine is still nasty tho, not sure when that's supposed to pass.

 

[rareboy]

I've learned that I should pay more attention to long weekends coming up and not schedule something for 3pm on a Friday that makes me have to stick around the fucking office all day today.

 

[gsdx]

Day three of the migraine is still nasty tho, not sure when that's supposed to pass.

The headaches come from the stress and anxiety of not smoking. It is one of the withdrawal symptoms and varies from person to person. When I quit, I didn't get the headaches. There's no time limit since they can last as long as you're anxious and stressed about quitting.

Best advice? Google some relaxation techniques. They should help.

By the way, Day 3 is probably the worst. Now your brain just has to become accustomed to operating without nicotine. Just remember that you can never smoke another cigarette if you're serious about quitting. As soon as you do, you're addicted again.

Here's a timeline for you: https://quitsmokingcommunity.org/how-to-quit-smoking/nicotine-withdrawal-timeline-symptoms/