The "Today I Learned" Thread • Page 12

Wait what

 

TIL Converge has a shirt for sale at PacSun. That was not on my 2025 bingo card

 

TIL: Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo) makes $1 million a year from royalties alone for the Ridiculousness theme song

 

TIL about the Marathon du Medoc. The longest marathon in the world held annually in France. It is so long because it includes several stops for orchestras, wine tasting, oysters bars, and steak.

 

TIL that Mario from the video game Mario has the full name of Mario Mario

 

So is Luigi “Luigi Mario?”

 

yep

poor Luigi

 

TIL

 

TIL about the tongue and cheek ironic adventure sport of "Extreme Ironing"

 

TIL there is an internet theory that Vanessa Carlton wrote her hit song "A Thousand Miles" about IASIP's Glenn Howerton.

Carlton said she wrote the song about a Juilliard student in New York in the 90's she had a crush on who is "now a famous actor". I guess Glenn went to Juilliard at the time and people put 2 and 2 together.

 

I find this pretty amusing

 

If you order cinnamon twists from taco bell, smash them boys up til they turn to a dust, then sprinkle that magic all over some ice cream, its a life changing moment

 

TIL Cougars/Pumas/Mountain Lions and Cheetahs are the largest members of the Felinae subfamily of felines that includes domestic cats. They're actually not technically "big cats" at all. Cougars and Cheetahs are more like very big regular cats.

Tigers, Lions, Jaguars, Leopards, etc belong to the seperate Patherinae subfamily. The biggest difference is Felinaes purr, meow, hiss, and screech, and are physically unable to roar like Patherinaes.

 

TIL birds don’t fart

 

they shart alot though