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

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buttscratcher Jan 2014 9:55pm, 6 Jan 2014 144 posts	0 buttscratcher The observable universe contains 500 billion galaxies and our galaxy alone contains 100 billion earthlike planets
Dan1006 Jan 2014 11:52pm, 6 Jan 2014 58 posts	0 Dan1006 I now know that I'm possibly not the greatest thing in the observable Universe. Statistically anyway.
Southcoastpete Jan 2014 5:13pm, 7 Jan 2014 4,089 posts	0 Southcoastpete That pogonophobic is having a fear of beards bbc.co.uk
DoricQuine Jan 2014 5:21pm, 7 Jan 2014 669 posts	0 DoricQuine That it is possible to do a 4 mile circular route and run into the wind the whole way!
Night-owl Jan 2014 7:08pm, 7 Jan 2014 16,470 posts	0 Night-owl I can believe that
Shortcut Camii Jan 2014 6:17pm, 8 Jan 2014 109 posts	0 Shortcut Camii There are 3 stages of twilight. Civil, nautical and astronomical.
Dvorak Jan 2014 12:58am, 9 Jan 2014 8,096 posts	0 Dvorak There is a youtube subgenre of ambient nature sounds. Eight hours of rain on a tent, anyone? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH-kj6rkQWc
Shortcut Camii Jan 2014 8:02am, 9 Jan 2014 111 posts	0 Shortcut Camii Will try that tonight Dvorak. Still struggling with lazy holiday sleep routine.
Dvorak Jan 2014 8:09pm, 12 Jan 2014 8,117 posts	0 Dvorak Alvin Stardust was not the original Alvin Stardust. Not only that, he was not the original Shane Fenton either. I don't think I knew that he was married to Liza Goddard either.
minardi. Jan 2014 9:20am, 13 Jan 2014 2,185 posts	0 minardi. [my mum went to see him when he was Shane Fenton, I went to see him when he was Alvin!]