Today I learned +

[Ryujin]

Am I the only one who thinks it looks like he's about to do the lightning trick from the first scene of Big Trouble In Little China?

What if HE is the alien?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

What if HE is the alien?

 

[Aeson]

I wasn't fast enough for a Centauri joke.

 

[MoonSong]

What if HE is the alien?

And wants to go home...?

 

[Aeson]

And wants to go home...?

He tried to phone home but they wouldn't accept the charges.

 

[Aeson]

I was looking into the possible origin of my last name. The earliest mention of the possible source of the name can be traced back to 1086 and the DOOMSDAY book.

So, TIL about the Domesday Book also called the Doomsday book commissioned by William the Conquer.
Domesday Book - Wikipedia Domesday Book - Wikipedia

My dad's birth family may have been named after a duck. At least it's a pretty duck. Quack!

 

[Aeson]

Watching this and heard the word redneck. Apparently it's Afrikaans slang roolnek for the English immigrants. It was used in South Africa before being used here in the US. Still an insult for laborers that worked in the sun.

 

[overgeeked]

Turns out the whole 1 gold = 10 silver is not only historically accurate, it was true all the way back when silver and gold coins were first used as dual currencies.

Bimetallism - Wikipedia

Croeseid - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Rabulias]

Today I learned that the earliest manual chainsaw was developed in the late 1700s and was created to perform pelviotomies in difficult childbirth situations.

 

[Aeson]

Paging Dr. Leatherface. Paging Dr. Leatherface. You have a patient in the O.R.