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

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Fragile Do Not Bend Apr 2017 11:30am, 1 Apr 2017 1,680 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend Today is international pillow fight day (not an April fool).
NDWDave Apr 2017 10:57am, 5 Apr 2017 2,635 posts	0 NDWDave That you need to apply in advance for a visa to Australia. And that it is possible to finally check in 34 minutes before the departure of a long haul flight
FergusG Apr 2017 2:03pm, 6 Apr 2017 1,118 posts	0 FergusG Just how graphic English street names were in the Middle Ages. en.wikipedia.org
Markymarkmark Apr 2017 5:05pm, 6 Apr 2017 5,019 posts	0 Markymarkmark Ah, Grape Lane....
Hills of Death (HOD) Apr 2017 10:14pm, 7 Apr 2017 33,311 posts	0 Hills of Death (HOD) I'm just going down Kneetrembler alley for a quick fuck
TomahawkMike Apr 2017 8:30am, 8 Apr 2017 101 posts	0 TomahawkMike That 88 year old women can push quite big things up their nostril (and not notice until it starts non-stoop bleeding months later and a registrar at the hospital finally spots it and pulls it out). And yes.. she does smell a bit better.
mulbs Apr 2017 6:31pm, 10 Apr 2017 12,874 posts	0 mulbs this about the £2 coin: Where did the edge inscription 'standing on the shoulders of giants' come from? The design on the reverse of the £2 coin traces the story of technological development with four concentric circles representing from inner to outer, the Iron Age, the Industrial Revolution, the Computer Age and the Internet. The edge inscription complements this theme, being taken from a letter written in 1676 by Sir Isaac Newton to his fellow-scientist Robert Hooke, acknowledging the debt he owed to other scientists: 'if I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants'. This quotation, stressing that today's achievements would not be possible without the discoveries of the past, was felt to sum up the spirit of the reverse design. Since Sir Isaac Newton was himself Master of the Royal Mint, from 1699 to 1727, the choice of the quotation seemed particularly appropriate.
TomahawkMike Apr 2017 3:11pm, 16 Apr 2017 126 posts	0 TomahawkMike That there are only about 60 pink dolphins left in the world
SusiesueH Apr 2017 3:23pm, 16 Apr 2017 3,682 posts	0 SusiesueH That there is such a thing as a pink dolphin!
Velociraptor Apr 2017 3:30pm, 16 Apr 2017 36,061 posts	0 Velociraptor That my oldest daughter introduced my youngest daughter to cannabis by feeding her a hash brownie without telling her what it was. (I'm not surprised.) And that my allegedly needle-phobic youngest daughter has a tattoo. Which, as far as I am aware, has nothing to do with the hash brownie.