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

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beebop Sep 2018 8:17pm, 15 Sep 2018 1,194 posts	0 beebop That Pickering parish church has medieval wall paintings.
Fizz :-) Sep 2018 8:36pm, 15 Sep 2018 2,916 posts	0 Fizz :-) That is it is squirrels and not my neighbours stealing the flower heads from my sunflowers.
ThorntonRunner Sep 2018 9:03pm, 15 Sep 2018 1,843 posts	0 ThorntonRunner [Road numbers: A1 through A6 radiate from London in clockwise order. A7-A9 from Edinburgh. Other roads start with a number related to this- a road starting between the A1 and A2 will start with 1 etc.- obviously there is ambiguity here 're start and end of a road!]
Dvorak Sep 2018 9:43pm, 15 Sep 2018 16,705 posts	0 Dvorak [That, Fizz, has me wondering not about your squirrels, but about your neighbours.]
Fragile Do Not Bend Sep 2018 9:02am, 16 Sep 2018 3,371 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend [The exception to the road numbering thing is in north Kent, where roads between the A2 and the Thames estuary should have started with 1 but it was thought more sensible to have all the Kent roads starting with 2]
GlennR Sep 2018 9:30am, 16 Sep 2018 37,873 posts	0 GlennR [The whole number system was designed so the A666 would go to Bolton. The rest is simply a cover story.]
Markymarkmark Sep 2018 11:24am, 18 Sep 2018 7,460 posts	0 Markymarkmark [Snigger, GlennR.]
Cerrertonia Sep 2018 11:32am, 18 Sep 2018 9,290 posts	0 Cerrertonia The A666(M) is the only UK motorway that has no signage to tell drivers which road they are currently on.
PaulaMc Sep 2018 12:11pm, 18 Sep 2018 7,436 posts	0 PaulaMc That there is a thing called Sudden Acquired Retinal Detachment Syndrome in dogs that not much is known about and for which there is no treatment.
Markymarkmark Sep 2018 12:26pm, 18 Sep 2018 7,463 posts	0 Markymarkmark That "Road to Hell" was not inspired by the A666[M]. (Apparently it's the M25/M4 route, according to Wikipedia.)