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

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Diogenes 12 Sep 7:32pm, 12 Sep 2024 88,065 posts	0 Diogenes I told my eldest that it was named for Toby Lerone, an unfortunate Swiss boy with a triangular shaped head.
Diogenes 13 Sep 11:22am, 13 Sep 2024 88,084 posts	0 Diogenes That WINDOWS + ; or WINDOWS = . are keyboard shortcuts to the emojis menu. This also allows you to access symbols such as ℃ and '™ Happy days 😎😛🎈🍕🚀🍆
Diogenes 13 Sep 11:23am, 13 Sep 2024 88,085 posts	0 Diogenes [ obvs, that should be WINDOWS + . above ]
ChrisHB 14 Sep 4:11pm, 14 Sep 2024 23,203 posts	0 ChrisHB It is easy to weed the patio while seated in a comfortable chair. (could also be in "What's making you smile today.)
Night-owl 14 Sep 11:50pm, 14 Sep 2024 46,394 posts	0 Night-owl Croydon used to have an airport (Thank you Poirotfor that snippet) [It closed in 1959]
macca 53 15 Sep 8:10am, 15 Sep 2024 32,793 posts	0 macca 53 [The area was still known as Croydon Airport when I worked nearby in the 80s - still used by light aircraft then iirc]
Diogenes 15 Sep 9:18am, 15 Sep 2024 88,116 posts	0 Diogenes [Croydon was THE London airport for a long while. It’s one of the reasons Croydon was heavily bombed in WWII. The school I attended was built on the outskirts of the former site. The modern building, the school was originally founded in 1615.]
Night-owl 15 Sep 11:28am, 15 Sep 2024 46,399 posts	0 Night-owl [All very interesting thank you]
GlennR 15 Sep 11:08pm, 15 Sep 2024 76,460 posts	0 GlennR [I did an audit job right next to it in 1987. Still looked very much like an airport then. As Dio says, it was THE London airport.]
Neal 16 Sep 4:45pm, 16 Sep 2024 295 posts	0 Neal American police shoot 10,000 (ish, maybe as many as 100,000) pet dogs a year. scholars.unh.edu