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

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Night-owl Sep 2017 2:03pm, 23 Sep 2017 29,510 posts	0 Night-owl It is restless legs awareness day daysoftheyear.com
ChrisHB Sep 2017 2:21pm, 23 Sep 2017 15,375 posts	0 ChrisHB That Paris does not exist. At least the book I'm reading, set in Paris, states that all locations are entirely fictional and any seeming resemblance to any real place is a coincidence.
Night-owl Sep 2017 4:31pm, 23 Sep 2017 29,511 posts	0 Night-owl It is also Batman day
buttscratcher Sep 2017 5:30pm, 23 Sep 2017 370 posts	0 buttscratcher My washing up liquid contains real lemons but my lemonade doesn't
Dvorak Sep 2017 5:41pm, 23 Sep 2017 14,261 posts	0 Dvorak A great run of new things to know, thanks :-). I am alarmed by the edict of North Carolina that all citizens should observe restless leg day though. (I am having a bit of it just now :-o. I also awoke with muscles in a quad pulsing, but that's a different thing.)
ChrisHB Sep 2017 10:13pm, 23 Sep 2017 15,376 posts	0 ChrisHB That a village at the end of the runway of Munich airport is called "Silence!" (Schwaig, it's close enough.)
Dvorak Sep 2017 2:01pm, 25 Sep 2017 14,271 posts	0 Dvorak There is a football ground in Slovakia with a railway line in it - the track runs between the stand and the pitch. There is a video of steam trains running along it whilst a game is in progress. Short version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3tFAYmmay8 Long version with added goat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RPF4TezIno
Velociraptor Sep 2017 2:02pm, 25 Sep 2017 36,873 posts	0 Velociraptor Just how much raw garlic is in innocent-looking sweet chilli chicken noodle pots. I don't always pity my patients, but today ...
ChrisHB Sep 2017 7:35pm, 25 Sep 2017 15,386 posts	0 ChrisHB That cormorants and shags are two distinct species* and not alternative names for the same thing. * A while ago I learned that the concept of species has no sound basis.
Oranj Sep 2017 8:18pm, 25 Sep 2017 635 posts	0 Oranj [citation needed]