Today I Learned

This briefcase, and this haircut.

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Baking chocolate often has vanilla in it but doesn’t have to.

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And they all got diarrhoea in the truck on the way home?

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That’s brilliant, never knew that

On the back of the truck. I was a karnt of a boss apparently.

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He preferred to be called “Grimey”.

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I always call the bridge at the end of Flinders Street/Wurundjeri Way round to Montague Street the Frank Grimes Bridge. May not be technically correct but it’s a perfectly cromulent name.

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Wojtek, a brown bear, was “enlisted” in the Polish army during WW2.

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Yes, the headline is literal.

MIL not doing well so bought he this cod pressed juice from woolworths to help with hydration.

The flavour is raspberry beret. I check the ingredients, ingredients are good. Ask my wife, why “beret”? She gives me a funny look and says “serious?”.

I’m like, well I know what a beret is but what is Raspberry beret? She still looks at me thinking Im joking. I asked, what makes it like a beret.

Brings up a YouTube video

Me: “oh, that’s what Prince is singing”

(This could also go in Secret Shame)

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I was watching a Youtube train video last night (Euston to Watford) and as they went through Harrow and Wealdstone, they talked about a massive train accident there, 112 dead, the worst peacetime train disaster in Britain.

It happened on my day of birth, so it seems that I myself am worth 112 Poms.

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Fark AN, that absolutely undervalues you.

Today I learned that there were trains when Noonan was born

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Gone With The Wind and Wizard of Oz had the same director.

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Was that the same wind that carried Dorothy and Toto away?

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It probably was!

It inspired the Sharknado series as well.

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TIL about Null Island. Fascinating!

Null Island is a fictional island located in the Atlantic Ocean at 0°N 0°E, where the Equator and Prime Meridian intersect. It is not a real land mass but a common mapping software placeholder used to identify geographic data errors, often appearing in databases when location coordinates are missing or set to zero.

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Part of me hates this.

Null is a state, not an island.

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Capers are neither fruit or vegetable. They’re an unopened flower bud.

Maybe more flower buds would be delicious brined or pickled?

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