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

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Mushroom Apr 2021 11:43am, 27 Apr 2021 1,599 posts	0 Mushroom That there is a World Penguin Day (25th April), and that the collective noun for penguins in water is 'a raft', whereas on land it's 'a waddle'
ChrisHB Apr 2021 11:31pm, 27 Apr 2021 20,889 posts	0 ChrisHB That TUI paint their ships and planes the same. (Actually I didn't know they had ships till I saw one today.)
rf_fozzy Apr 2021 12:04am, 28 Apr 2021 14,104 posts	0 rf_fozzy That "Ça plane pour moi" was Belgian in origin, not French.
GregP Apr 2021 6:20am, 28 Apr 2021 126,436 posts	0 GregP A year ago, the popular cooking website Epicurious quietly stopped publishing new recipes featuring beef, over concerns about climate change. No one noticed.
Dvorak Apr 2021 9:51am, 28 Apr 2021 22,323 posts	0 Dvorak [I expect there will now be a storm of protest, mainly from people who rarely if ever cook. The word "woke" will be thrown about.]
GregP Apr 2021 10:13am, 28 Apr 2021 126,441 posts	0 GregP [it was in the daily briefing from the New York Times. The word 'woke' did indeed crop up. God between us and evil]
WtnMel Apr 2021 12:29pm, 28 Apr 2021 2,191 posts	0 WtnMel The correct lyrics to "Surfin USA" from many years ago. Saw a Beach Boys concert/documentary on Sky Arts over the weekend and it turns out they sing "You'll see them wearing their baggies, HUARACHE SANDALS too" - goodness knows what I thought they were singing in that 2nd line - but it wasn't that! (and interestingly, that mistake isn't featured on kissthisguy.com)
GregP Apr 2021 2:20pm, 28 Apr 2021 126,453 posts	0 GregP I'm sitting with my mouth open trying to work out what I thought the lyrics were. All's sure the word 'huarache' isn't involved. Perhaps I convinced myself it was 'floppy'?
swittle Apr 2021 2:24pm, 28 Apr 2021 75,042 posts	0 swittle ^ [Huarche also in lyrics of 'Noble Surfer', not one of the more familiar Beach Boys tunes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikq4meTNryU ]
Night-owl Apr 2021 4:06pm, 28 Apr 2021 36,407 posts	0 Night-owl Now I wouldn't have thought that in a million years. When I get home I will have to listen to that