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

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Mushroom 29 Aug 1:51pm, 29 Aug 2024 3,320 posts	0 Mushroom Earl Grey tea originated in Northumberland. Bergamot oil was added to offset the strong taste of lime in the local water.
Diogenes 30 Aug 9:35am, 30 Aug 2024 87,895 posts	0 Diogenes What Roundnet or Spikeball is. The World Championships are being held at the Surrey Sports Park at the moment roundnetfederation.org
Diogenes 30 Aug 9:54am, 30 Aug 2024 87,897 posts	0 Diogenes Correction: Roundnet is the game, Spikeball is the name of the main equipment manufacturer.
GlennR 30 Aug 12:32pm, 30 Aug 2024 76,345 posts	0 GlennR Every season of the year has six letters in its name. [In a sense I knew this already, but it only struck me while doing a crossword this morning]
ThorntonRunner 30 Aug 4:44pm, 30 Aug 2024 7,648 posts	0 ThorntonRunner [If you're British but not if you're American]
Diogenes 30 Aug 5:45pm, 30 Aug 2024 87,908 posts	0 Diogenes [how come the other seasons aren’t something like dormant, grow, and flower?]
ThorntonRunner 30 Aug 5:58pm, 30 Aug 2024 7,656 posts	0 ThorntonRunner The above took me down a bit of a rabbit hole. At one time that season was known in Britain as harvest. At the time of the founding fathers both fall and autumn were being used in place of harvest but neither had dominated. In America fall won out, in Britain autumn.
57.5 Degrees of Pain 30 Aug 6:40pm, 30 Aug 2024 20,720 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain Autumn is used in the US, Fall just predominates.
Hills of Death (HOD) 30 Aug 8:29pm, 30 Aug 2024 37,287 posts	0 Hills of Death (HOD) Abedi Pele (real name Abedi Ayew) champions league winner with Marseille and Ghana international is dad of Jordan and Andre Ayew premier league players.
Diogenes 30 Aug 8:32pm, 30 Aug 2024 87,911 posts	0 Diogenes (That’s one I knew)