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

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Night-owl Oct 2017 10:33pm, 14 Oct 2017 29,648 posts	0 Night-owl Today is/was bald and free day checkiday.com
simbil Oct 2017 3:23pm, 16 Oct 2017 7,557 posts	0 simbil Iberian dust/smoke plus the clouds from dying hurricanes makes the sky go strangely orange/yellow.
Wobbling Oct 2017 11:58pm, 18 Oct 2017 5,590 posts	0 Wobbling You can’t take padlocks into the Palace of Westminster as there is a concern you’ll padlock yourself to stuff. Apparently this rule has been in place since the suffragette movement.
Wriggling Snake Oct 2017 7:43am, 19 Oct 2017 16,648 posts	0 Wriggling Snake That my calf is much better.
NDWDave Oct 2017 7:05pm, 23 Oct 2017 4,985 posts	0 NDWDave The word "tragedy" appears to have been used to describe different phenomena at different times. It derives from Classical Greek τραγῳδία, contracted from trag(o)-aoidiā = "goat song", which comes from tragos = "he-goat" and aeidein = "to sing" (cf. "ode"). [thanks Swittle]
ChrisHB Oct 2017 7:50pm, 23 Oct 2017 15,523 posts	0 ChrisHB I thought the connection with goats was unproven.
GlennR Oct 2017 7:59pm, 23 Oct 2017 31,303 posts	0 GlennR I don't think there's much doubt about the etymology Chris.
Dvorak Oct 2017 8:07pm, 23 Oct 2017 14,464 posts	0 Dvorak That the specific name for the hard stone (technically the endocarp) inside fruit such as peaches and plums is putamen, plural putemina.
GlennR Oct 2017 8:35pm, 25 Oct 2017 31,398 posts	0 GlennR The goat thing: apparently it comes e down to whether the ending is -dia or -doi. The latter was generally used in the 5th century BCE. If that's correct it cannot be "goats who sing" but rather "people who have something to do with goats". It's possible that they were singing for the prize of a goat, or perhaps a goat sacrifice to Dionysus was involved.
ChrisHB Oct 2017 9:53am, 26 Oct 2017 15,530 posts	0 ChrisHB That vinegar can go mouldy.