Has he snagged anyone 30 mil for a single season that they didn't play?[/rhetoricalpoke]

Boras will fer damn sure show you the money, though. Ya don't get that big if ya ain't that good.

Today I learned about The Ring of Silvianus

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(through a Did You Know about The Vyne estate on Wiki's front page), and that it may have been Tolkien's inspiration for The One Ring.

I did not know that.

Ya reckon ol Silvianus' friends in school called him 'Anus for short?

What choice would they have?

TIL about Chief, the US Army's last living operational cavalry horse. He died in 1968 at 36. He was buried with full military honors, in an upright position, in Ft. Riley Kansas, at the base of the statue 'Old Trooper' (shown below).

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I also learned that when actress Tilly Keeper auditioned for the role of 'Louise Mitchell' on East Enders, she thought she was trying out for a different part.

In learning that, I learned that Tilly's father's name is Peter. Peter Keeper. Snicker.

I guess the surname of Holder might have been worse.:yelsick:

Today I learned about the passionflower. Also called the blue passionflower, blue crown, flower of five wounds, "the Japanese call it the clock plant, due to it having 12 petals, a central stamen and stigmas resembling a time pieces's winding mechanism, and curly green tendrils resembling wound springs."

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:devil:

That flower just rocks.

What a pretty flower! Looks like it was designed on MS Paint.

Ain't it, though?

I can't tell ya how long I looked at it.

Today (literally, just a minute or two ago) I learned about the Devil's Hole pupfish, the world's rarest fish. No wonder. It's only found in a hole in (ok, near) Death Valley, one of the hottest, driest places on Earth.

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~from the link

That's pretty amazing.

Whats that built down there on the side of the lake?

Water level gauges. There is massive agricultural activity nearby and there have been numerous lawsuits and regulations regarding how much water the agriculture (in freakin Death Valley of all places) can pump out of the underground aquifer. So the National Park Service measures the water level so they know when the agriculture is pumping more water than they are supposed to be.

Don't get me starting with the fools in the desert Southwest pumping the water out of the ground faster than it can be replenished. Me, me, me, and screw the future generations.

It balances out, they pump out the water, the land subsides, the water is still the same distance down... until it runs out. :rolleyes:

A couple days ago I learned that the Hopi traveled all the way up to the Canadian Rockies and left some pictographs.

Cool, I wonder how they know it was Hopi and not their cousins in the north.

I'm going to start digging on that because the Hopi identification is recent. Unfortunately, people seem unable to keep their hands off the pictographs because they are in a reasonably easy canyon to access. I assume earlier photos are more revealing.

99.9999% of visitors can be respectful and leave no trace, but it only takes one idiot in a million to ruin it for everyone forever.

And forever. :mad:

How many places have you revisited that the entrance is blocked so you can only peer in? Like in Cades Cove, NC as a child I climbed the ladders into the lofts of the log cabins. Its easy to tell the names of the cretins who visited as they left their identification carved in the wood.[emoji22]

TIL that the current world water speed record (317.60 (or.58) mph, by Ken Warby, in Oz) is 40 years old, and that the last two challengers both died attempting to break it.

In fact, it's forty years old today.

Yikes! I'd have never guessed this one was holding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pr4T5ClWEw

That's a fairly small boat, how'd he get those yuge balls in there?

I learnt on Wednesday at a work course that one litre of solvent can contaminate one hundred million litres of water.

Wait a minute, water is a solvent! :eek:

Yes true, but I think they were talking about inorganic solvents, which are hazardous to health.

One drop will contaminate the same amount of water.

Just not to the same extent.;)

Well I don't know. One drop in a hundred million litres might not be detectable. There may be no solvent molecules in some samples. But I'm certainly no expert on the subject.

Ya don't need to be an expert to get there.

TIL that the cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii) is named after William Clark, of Lewis & Clark fame.

As are the primrose Clarkia, and Clark's Nutcracker.

Similarly, there is also a Lewisia plant.

https://www.growingcolors.com/_ccLib.../DETA-1590.jpg

Lewisia is a plant genus, named for explorer Meriwether Lewis, who encountered the species in 1806. The native habitat of Lewisia species is north facing cliffs in western North America. Local Native Americans ate the roots, which have also been used to treat sore throats. --Wiki

All my life, I've wondered how nut growers got the nutmeat out of a walnut in one piece. Last week, I learned how it's done.

I discovered the answer when I stole a bunch of walnuts from a pet sitting client's front yard (which was covered with nuts from two ginormous trees).

Seems that fresh walnut meats are kind of rubbery. Cracking the outer shell in several places makes it easy to remove the nut in one piece. The hardest thing is removing the membrane from the center of the nut, but because they're rubbery, you can slightly pry apart the nutmeat to get the membrane out without breaking the nut in half.

Mystery solved! :cool:

But walnuts are covered in that thick green husk that stains your fingers. How did you get through that?

As soon as they leave the tree the husk starts drying and will soon crack. Then it's easy to peel off like a tangerine. Black Walnuts, on the other hand, turn into a gooey mess.

TIL that, in the Cellar, ya can't start a multi-quote with a post by a person on your ignore list.

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Today I learned that there's an ignore option. :)

...and then I disappeared.

What Bruce said. :)

Not at all Mr G!

That if you have a latex allergy, you might not want to eat avocados. I can't remember if I've ever actually tried an avocado. I feel like they taste dirty, but maybe I just made that up. I'm sure I must have tried one, I'm usually game for any fruit. I never want to eat one (again), I can't really say why.... but now at least I have a good excuse. I KNOW everyone else loves them. They just don't look like something edible to me, despite their amazing nutritional values :/

I know, source is WebMD..... but I was looking for nutritional value so it seemed ok for that....

https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/all-about-avocados

Because it was webMD I googled some more and I also learned it's the only fruit we eat from the Laurel family - although we cook with bay leaves and use cinnamon bark and flavor things with sassafras which are also all Laurel spawn. I only knew about the Bay and sassafras -the latter of which I learned in the last few weeks from my friend when we found some out walking. (FTR, I dislike cinnamon flavor immensely, more evidence needed on sassafras -been a long time since I tried it but I didn't like it then, but I cook with bay all the time)

here's one site about that tree family tree: http://www.actforlibraries.org/sassa...laurel-family/

and now I just went on to learn it's fairly likely my mild allergy to raw apples is related and possible my severe allergy to all things capsicum could be related. ....but I have't experienced reactions to any of the other things listed, so it could be a load of bollocks/coincidence too :) I don't really like bananas, though.... (but lurve kiwis. Pologirl once had a bad reaction to Kiwis though and has never touched them since....

http://latexallergyresources.org/cross-reactive-food

::selectiveevidencerocks;)::

Not cool. Apple skins are one of Lil' Griff's enemies.

Wait, so do you have a latex allergy?

Crazy that your body/taste buds already told you that you hate things from that family before you learned you might be allergic.

I haven't learnt anything today yet, but it's only 2pm here so there's still hope for me.

Yes. Hives out the hoohaa. Literally, as it was actually diagnosed after an examination as I was in labor with my oldest. :eek: Prior to that I always just thought I was allergic to washing up.

That there is a chasma and a mesa on mars named after Hebe (my daughter's name)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebes_Chasma

TIL what a chasma is.

I know a girl like that.

We're planning a field trip. Anyone have a personal in with old Elon?

There's another one that don't really need no last name. Not a lot of Elons running around. Not in these hyere parts, nohow.

Leon Czolgosz

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died on this date in 1901. He rode the lightning in ol Sparky for the assassination of POTUS Wm. McKinley just 45 days earlier. 1800 volts chased the rabbit through ol Leon 3 times.

Today I Learned the he was apparently fathered by Daniel Day-Lewis:

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Ok, enough comedy jokes!

TIL that the polecat is more closely related to the dog than the cat.

Today I learned that the manatee,

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and the rock hyrax

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are the species most closely related to the elephant

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That proves your daughter was abducted by aliens.

In a few days, it will be reported on Fox and Friends. Then we will know it is true.

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I wonder how they controlled for "loneliness the emotion" vs "nobody is there to call 911".

Or, "nobody there to coax you into going to the doctor when symptoms first appear".

TIL that Quonset huts are called that because the first ones were manufactured at Quonset Point, near Davisville, R.I.

'Quonset' is an Algonquin word for 'small, long place'.

TIL that, as a writer, Lionel Richie achieved a No. 1 song a year from 1978 - 1986. And that he co-wrote We Are The World.

TIL about the teeny-tiny Rusty Spotted Cat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W86c...ature=youtu.be

Stupid YouTube coding doesn't work. Sorry.