Today I Learned

TIL how to change my car's oil!

Relatedly:
-I am a bad car parent and should have done this months ago, future me please do not wait for the angry red light
-Funnels are a Gift and I should have found one before I splashed everywhere
-My car is probably gonna smoke like a motherfucker the next time I turn it on

 

TIL this sweater exists but I have no idea where I can buy it and I'm enormously upset over that.

It is apparently from H&M but it's not on their website. Pic posted two days ago so what gives where is it give me the boobvore sweater

 

TIL that comb jellies are weird as fuck

the universe is beautiful and strange and I love it

 

@Carnivore Psst

 

@budgie I SPENT A UFKCIGN HOUR ON THAT WEBSITE AND COUTLNTD FIND IT AND YOU ARE MY SAVIOUR

ITS ONLY $15

SCREAMS

 

For some reason it seems to only be on the Canadian site, which is maybe why I could find it.

 

what a nice list

and per this i'm ace

 

it's not sold online and only in stores so now im being a clingy s/o and pawing at my gf to go to her H&M store and get it for me, since H&M doesnt exist near me

 

There used to be a chocolate bar called the "chicken dinner candy bar".

(There was no chicken or chicken product in this; it was a chocolate covered nut roll.)

 

Today I learned: Don't eat half a ghost pepper and then drive home during rush hour. The heat wasn't bad, but my stomach was Not Happy and the seatbelt didn't help.

 

http://imgur.com/gallery/JDgtn TIL adam savage has a fucking imgur account

 

til my cakes keep falling apart because i'm too impatient to wait long enough before taking it out of the pan half the time, and the other half of the time i forget about it and it sticks -_-

 

TIL one can make a fortune bulk-selling allegedly haunted dolls on eBay. I don't think I'm unethical enough to try it though.

 

TIL spider silk can be used as scaffolding to encourage neural regeneration!

 

@Loq wat. no way. that's awesome.

(my mom posted to Twitter yesterday about spinach w/nanotubes that can detect explosives. we live in the fucking future.)

 

some flighty broad learned to do this!!

 

but seriously, lemme check: if i do this, will ALPHYS get pinged?

Code:

[user=#]display name[/user]

eta: no ping!
but it's a neat way to link to a profile.

 

Huh! Thank you for sharing thing, I didn't know it only pinged with an @.

TIL forum coding is more confusing than I thought :P

 

yeah, that account didn't get any pings for the times we directed a [ user ] at them. I have no explanation for why!



also this last weekend i finally learned how to change a tire

 

I was shopping for christmas presents and learned you can just buy dinosaur teeth (among other things) off ebay no problem. I dont know what i expected