The "Today I Learned" Thread • Page 13

TIL: Drumsticks aren’t considered ice cream due to the amount of vegetable oils used with the cream. Thus making them a “frozen dairy dessert”

 

TIL Death Row Records released a Christmas album

 

TIL: In 2006, an employee at Coca-Cola attempted to secretly sell trade secrets to Pepsi for $1.5 million. Pepsi refused and actually contacted Coca-Cola to rat them out.

The employee got 8 years in prison

 

Alpha-Bits cereal was discontinued in 2021

 

Wtf really???

You know… Now that you mention it, I definitely have no recollection of seeing them on grocery runs or Target trips the past few years. I must’ve just never noticed lol

 

TIL: Cory Booker and RuPaul are cousins

 

TIL: There’s a city in Tennessee named Paris, which has a 70-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower

Paris, Tennessee - Wikipedia

Most notably, Bob Nastanovich of Pavement currently resides there

 

TIL that “absolutepunk.net” redirects to Chorus, but the banner image changes to the old scratchy heart.

 

TIL that Ice Tsunamis exist

 

TIL dogs are actually emotionally incapable of feeling guilt/shame. Those "dog looks guilty after destroying furniture" videos lied to us.

When dogs look "guilty" they're actually just stress responding to your voice tone and body language. They don't have any actual introspective emotional reflection of their negative action . While dogs are emotionally advanced animals compared to others, things like guilt/shame/pride are too complex of emotions for dogs.

 

TIL another one similar to this

 

Michael Jackson’s former pet chimp Bubbles is still alive

 

he's seen some shit

 

What are they up to these days?

 

He was on John Mulaney’s late night show

 

Chilling at a sanctuary in Florida and painting!

 

nice

 

That legitimately makes me happy to hear

 

live, laugh, love first debuted in 1972, though it wasn't printed on a variety of household signs until much later.

 

wild

 

TIL throwing up when you see/smell/taste something gross is the human brain's instinctual defence mechanism to protect you from bacteria and viruses. The brain senses something that may be a toxic threat and hits the "purge everything" button basically.

 

TIL you can buy whole watermelons on Amazon

 

TIL: There was a spin-off of Saved By The Bell named “Saved By The Bell: The New Class,” which actually ran longer than the original SBTB series (1993-2000, to be exact), but it wasn’t popular and had zero cultural impact

 

I was gonna say "wait I watched that" but I was thinking about Saved By The Bell: The College Years, which was a different spinoff.

 

TIL: In-N-Out serves 7-Up instead of Sprite (despite the fact they are a Coke-serving fast food chain) because many years ago, In-N-Out suffered a large warehouse fire and 7-Up temporarily allowed them to use their facilities while they got things situated. They serve 7-Up as a token of gratitude to the company