What do you know today, that you did not yesterday?

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Sep 2013
9:08am, 6 Sep 2013
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Velociraptor
Caldbeck is getting the 'phone put in. Only Vodafone, though.
So is Witherslack.
Witherslack is an actual place and not a joke name.
Dalton-in-Furness is a Portas Pilot Town.
PowerBar is a Nestle brand.
Sep 2013
2:20pm, 9 Sep 2013
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SpicedApple
That 'morbidi' means 'soft' in Italian. And that 'amaretti morbidi' are soft biscuits and nothing like the amarettini I had thought I had bought.
Sep 2013
7:53pm, 9 Sep 2013
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kjtindall
That I should have been a better sponsor and believed the IT PM when he said the project would deliver. And the IT network and data guy when said the data copy would work. And he'd get the defects resolved. Fucking outstanding.
Sep 2013
8:10pm, 9 Sep 2013
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MrsVanoord
That I have a small plantation of moss growing on my car 😃
Sep 2013
12:03am, 10 Sep 2013
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Q Mac
The US will vote Wednesday, strikes by Thursday a.m., world in chaos by Friday!
Sep 2013
6:59am, 10 Sep 2013
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PaulaMc
That there is a 5.2% 'divorce' rate in the swan population
Sep 2013
12:04pm, 10 Sep 2013
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mulbs
Definition of twerk in English

New words: August 2013

Pronunciation: /twəːk/
verb

[no object] informal

dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance: just wait till they catch their daughters twerking to this song, twerk it girl, work it girl
Sep 2013
6:35pm, 10 Sep 2013
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Rebel
That my microwave would do a firework display and die.:(
Sep 2013
6:38pm, 11 Sep 2013
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RichHL
I now know the term "numismatic pornography."

io9.com

NSFW. Unless you work the sex dungeon at the British Museum.
Sep 2013
7:13pm, 11 Sep 2013
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Night-owl
Giovanni Trapattoni was manager of the Rep of Ireland football team for the last 5 years (hadn't realised it was that long)

not any more though

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