Things you didn't know until very recently...

The Mystery Flavor of Dum-Dums is when they start making a different batch, letting the flavor of the previous batch run out on its own. Mystery Dum-Dums are basically efficient and nontoxic candy machine cleaners.

On that note, it's not exactly new to me but a while ago I was surprisingly unshocked to learn that unused ice cream is collected and used to make new chocolate ice cream. It has to be chocolate since that's the only flavour you can take almost any mix for and reflavour it convincingly.

The Canadians stopped World War 2 from happening somewhere.

The Germans like to give you alcohol when you haven't asked for it and it's actually quite impractical for them to give it to you.

I kind of already figured but it was put in practice, but tying a knot with only your non-dominant hand is hard.

Try it in the dark while wearing fire-resistant gloves. Hours of fun.

If you're into that sort of thing.

@Inverurie How did that come up?

edited 20th Aug '14 4:39:15 PM by phantom1

Kinky

Tying knots to lower tools down a stairwell in a burning building, seeing as you ask.

@Inverurie Ah sounds like quite the thing. I just had a painful bug bite (well I still have it but no more swelling and much smaller red area and it hurts way less now) on my right arm (probably wasp but I didn't see what bit me) and mom was nice enough to tie my ice bag with a cloth so I could use my arms, but then I needed to get it off, because it was dripping easy enough, I slipped it off and untie it, but then I needed to retie it, and ran into said problem. So you saved people, or at least yourself and I got spoiled by my mom .

edited 20th Aug '14 4:47:39 PM by phantom1

Aw, being spoiled is good. Never turn down the opportunity!

Yes true

Popcorn apparently contains trace amounts of a chemical that, with enough concentration, can royally screw up your lungs.

... Well then.

I promise to never start huffing popcorn.

There probably is a movement to ban popcorn because of that.

It takes, like, several months of religiously eating six bags a day or something for it to be an actual medical issue, though. The chemical doesn't stick around if there isn't a lot of it constantly coming in.

So basically, it's impossible for it to happen to anyone who is not me.

Meh. I don't go to movies, and even if I do I don't eat their overpriced popcorn.

Okay so eating 1/3 of a bag of (split between me, my mom, and my brother in 3 separate small bowls) popcorn once every about two weeks shouldn't hurt me.

Most things have an overdose rating where that much per kilogram of weight will kill a person - even iron for example has such a rating, although you're unlikely to reach it.

This might be a bit Rule Of Cautious Editing Judgment-y, but considering this site's target audience, I think it'll be fine.

Palaeontologist Phil Senter has used the creationist science of baraminology to support evolution and the dinosaurian origin of birds. Absolutely delicious.

edited 21st Aug '14 5:35:16 AM by Spinosegnosaurus77

Hopefully this means people can Stop Being Stereotypical, at least for a little while.

We have earwigs living under our oven, I swept under and a bunch skittered out. Mom apparently doesn't know what to do either, unless we have really powerful Raid.

Ah, they won't hurt you. Just chase them out. You might want to investigate how they got in, though.

The blackest material (the thing that absorbs 99.5-99.8% of all light) is a carbon nanotube coating (and a NASA invention, but that's pointless). To steal off some ideas, it will be nice to coat the silent room in this material, so you can't see or hear shit except your hearing lost and glaucoma halos.