Heck, depending on where you are you can probably buy tiny fossils for cheapsies from your local mineralogical society! :D (by which I mean yessss join me in the Weird Bone Collecting Pit)
TIL that you cannot add cornstarch to frosting to make it thicker unless it is specifically a frosting that you make on the stove (to the website who said adding cornstarch to frosting without that addendum, eff you -_-); Cold butter works a hell of a lot better as a thickener
TIL that I am not a good enough cook to get away with not measuring things. Also it would probably help if I bothered with recipes beyond "how long do I have to heat this before it stops being poisonous?"
TIL that not only was Sir Frederick Banting involved in the isolation of insulin, but he also contributed to work on the first G-force suit, and tested mustard gas antidotes on himself.
Today I learned that the Dancing Pumpkin Guy's teenage son is genuinely proud of his dad and even did an impression of the video in a middle school talent show. He even comments on videos parodying his dad's when people assume they're the original, just to politely correct them.
TIL I learned that you can buy electric dentist drills on amazon for reasonably cheap. (I'mma use them for fossil extraction) Also I learned that don't bring dead starfish home from the beach unless you're SURE it's not smelly. What doesn't smell in the wind and open air may well stink up a contained room. I managed to bag it to contain the gases, but the hotel room will never be the same D:
Til the little compressed gas containers we use to make whipped cream are recyclable. (the package said so but I didn't know if the local recycling plant could handle them)
TIL I'm not just left-handed, I'm cross-dominant. I do most things with my left hand, but I learned to use a computer mouse, trackball, and then laptop touch-pad with my right hand because corded mice were always on the right side of the computer.
@Imoyram @Technicality oops I should probably clarify that I WAS NOT, NOR HAVE I EVER BEEN, HARASSED BY A TURKER OR OTHER LARGE GROUND BIRD and my upset is purely intellectual because jfc who wants to know that gross wattlebirds think they're the sexiest thing on two legs? NOT ME
@BunjyWunjy okay but where have you gotten this information from? is there an article online about turkeys being attracted to humans? can I read it
@Technicality @Imoyram this conversation also the humane society advocates using the hose on problem turkeys and that's a hilarious mental image eta links
