Things you just found out today, or learned recently [MERGED]

[tijlover]

^ What a wonderful device!

[bjh]

TIL that the city of Albuquerque in the state of New Mexico is Portuguese (or Spanish) for White Oak (Alba Querque). Just thought it was a weird word.

[elnina]

Originally Posted by tijlover

Reader's Digest had an article on Smell. And? An elephant has such an acute sense of smell, he can smell water 12 miles away!

Here are more interesting facts about those fascinating animals:
https://seaworld.org/animals/all-abo...phants/senses/

[Wild Flower]

Originally Posted by jasperhobbs

I found out the light does go off when you close the refrigerator door. Unfortunately, I got frostbite when I crawled inside to solve the mystery and the door jammed. Obviously I did escape.

Hope this is helpful to all of you out there that have had many sleepless nights tossing and turning wondering.

Good to know. Now I have a dilemma... my milk is afraid of the dark. Now that I know this- what will I do?!?

[slowlane3]

Originally Posted by ndcairngorm

If there is, I don't know of it. But there is a bit of the US just below Vancouver, and fully attached to the Canadian mainland but not attached to any other part of the US.

Yes - you're referring to this unusual town. The crime rate is practically Zero, but residents have to be bussed a long ways to school, and to get medical care (since U.S. health insurance won't pay for care received in Vancouver). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Roberts,_Washington

[Wild Flower]

Originally Posted by jean_ji

Take a pic of a menu at a restaurant and enlarge on your phone if the print is too small or you forgot your glasses.

Smart! I remember the times I traipsed back to my car to get my glasses. Now I will just have to run back to get my phone.

[motormaker]

Originally Posted by Wild Flower

Good to know. Now I have a dilemma... my milk is afraid of the dark. Now that I know this- what will I do?!?

Contact Dear Abby, Heloise or Ann Landers These girls have all the answers..

[High_Plains_Retired]

Originally Posted by bjh

TIL that the city of Albuquerque in the state of New Mexico is Portuguese (or Spanish) for White Oak (Alba Querque). Just thought it was a weird word.

I did not know this and I have had a home there for 25 years. Odd that I have never made the connection between the Spanish word alba for white and the latin word for the oak genus, e.g., Quercus.

More odd that it wasn't called Albupopulus for the cottonwoods that by far outnumber oaks in the area? Maybe the Spanish settlers thought the cottonwoods were oaks?

[Natnasci]

I learned that the statue Winged Victory of Samothrace, at the Louvre, right wing is not original, but added in the 19th century.

I wish I had known that when I saw it..in fact I've seen it 3 times over the years, and I never noticed.

A closer look at the Victory of Samothrace | Musée du Louvre