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

There's also an added fee for bottles and cans here as well. Which is why a lot of homeless people go around collecting them.

There's way too much Grumpy Cat merch available.

Most non-giftwrapped Amazon shipments with gift slips don't customize the message on the slip.

Women have different symptoms than men when they are about to have a heart attack, which include cold sweat, nausea, and lack of breath.◊

I had a Grumpy Cat iced cappuccino once. It was awful.

Is it really awful or is just a tongue in check?

An emoticon is also called an 'emogi'. I didn't know that until a month after I heard the term!

Emoji are actually a form of pictographic character that was originally exclusively used in Japan but have over the past few years been spreading worldwide, a large number of emoji glyphs being included in the Unicode standard.

Certain rules concerning the parties of a legal case (among them the rules of when a party has a personal duty to meet in court), are hidden away in the civil process law's section about evidence.

Thanks, lawmakers. :|

Midna - those symptoms you mention happen among men too, it's not uncommon to find a man who is having a heart attack be unable to communicate his problem. It's just that they tend to have a different focus in men, and a man having a heart attack may have very bad pain in the chest, where a woman may have none.

In Catalonia and neighboring areas, it's traditional to hide a defecating peasant figure somewhere in the nativity scene. That whole Wikipedia page is pretty funny, especially some of the "explanations" and this section.

The American Museum of Natural History has a goddamn weird bias against mineralogy to such a point that they've allowed priceless photosensitive specimens to decay on their shelves and contaminate other specimens; entire displays are unmaintained and are coated with dust and the lights are burnt out. An acquaintance has mentioned that the staff disparages the exhibits because ". . .unlike dinosaurs, they were never alive."

This sentiment is shared amongst many museums. The Academy of Science in Philly sold most of their specimens to jewelers who cut them up into gems and sold them, while Phoenix just auctioned theirs on Ebay and the like.

edited 17th Dec '14 11:17:54 AM by carbon-mantis

#15305: It really is awful, but the meme was right there for the taking.

There isn't actually an XL version of QI's 9th L-series episode. I'd been waiting for it for a week now...

Today is Mega Man's birthday.

Columbia Pictures is part of SONY. For some reason that didn't click in my brain until just now.

The Simpsons started 25 years ago today.

Apparently, you can get an earlobe cyst, which explains why my left earlobe felt "hard" for a couple of days.

I am not the only person on the planet who likes "Achy Breaky Heart" unironically. As in, genuinely thinks it's a good song.

"It will take about 11 trillion gallons of water (42 cubic kilometers) — around 1.5 times the maximum volume of the largest U.S. reservoir — to recover from California's continuing drought." Source

"We are trying our best to not let Interstellar happen, but we also trying our best to let you know how fast we are moving toward it, except the we are going to save everyone part."

In other words we are fucked.

Unless we can figure out a good way to desalinate oceanic water..... Right? That's a solution on the table?

Also I was not aware the mineralogy section was so mismanaged, having actually visited it several times

edited 17th Dec '14 11:00:04 PM by Xopher001

You meant the section on California state gov or something else?

california state gov

also, apparently Burl Ives, the guy who played the snowman narrator of Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer, was blacklisted during the Red scare

The Interview has been canceled.

Leif Ericsson is an Awesome McCoolname. Apparently meaning 'Inheritor, son of Eternal-King'.

What was the story behind that? Something about hackers…

edited 18th Dec '14 1:26:22 PM by Spinosegnosaurus77