What did you learn today?

10 years ago
Posts: 100
I learned that contests are not that easy to win 🙁

10 years ago
Posts: 1701
If you put Korean food in your hot car for 10 minutes, you're going to have a bad time. Smells like farts.

10 years ago
Posts: 143
Today's the only chance to see a blood moon lunar eclipse for the next 18 years... and, naturally, it's cloudy where I live. 🙁

10 years ago
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The more time I spend doing brain training exercises and not studying for my exams, the more stupid I become.
Nulla in mundo pax sincera
"Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth." - Albert Camus
Back to the Future 2 happened today. At 4 pm to be precise so we only have the past now...
(The setting of Blade Runner is November 2019 so my "favorite" future is still upon me.)
I also read EU/US comics and am a librarian.
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10 years ago
Posts: 280
Quote from residentgrigo
Back to the Future 2 happened today. At 4 pm to be precise so we only have the past now...
Yeah. I was just gonna write: "Today I learned that I'm living in the future." ^^
You can PM me if you need a temporary (freelance) cleaner/redrawer for some project. Especially if it's something with nice art.
Being the lazy person that I am, I'm not likely to accept anything long-term though.
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10 years ago
Posts: 74
That Quebec voted less than 20% for the Bloc and that they voted for a governing party (Liberal, Trudeau). Which is historical for Canada

9 years ago
Posts: 48
I learn that there were...
Man-eating ants. That if there were thousands and millions of them were together even an elephant will be swallowed easily
- different kinds of miasma some lethal and some are not
- witches curse can be lift-up but then it will backfired in the witch side (who cast the spell) and that there are two kinds of curse - the everlasting kind which will from gens to gens and some just common that just ain't last forever.
all from a certain mangas that i just read recently
😁

9 years ago
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Mosquitoes have found a way into my house.

9 years ago
Posts: 1737
Finals make one want to jump off a bridge.
Nulla in mundo pax sincera
"Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth." - Albert Camus
I predicted in our movie thread that Star Wars: The Force Awakens will become the biggest movie of all time if inflations isn´t counted and that can´t be argue anymore. Just look how much money can be made in one single day and more importantly in pre-sales!
Even i am floored to learn these numbers and i listen to about half a dozen Film/TV industry podcasts every week. I can´t be the only one to find this fascinating. Right?
Star Wars: The Force Awakens stormed the box office and walked away with an estimated $238 million in its first three days domestically (including $57 million in Thursday night "previews") along with another $279 million internationally for a massive $517 million worldwide opening. Suffice to say, this shatters the domestic box office opening weekend record of $208.8 million set by Jurassic World earlier this year, but the record-breaking doesn't end there.
In just its first day of release Force Awakens brought in an estimated $120.5 million setting a new record for the largest Friday, opening day and single day. All on its own, that opening day was also enough to break the previous December opening weekend record of $84.62 million set by The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in 2012. Additionally, the film now holds the following domestic records:Largest Thursday Previews: $57 million* Previous Record: $43.5 million (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2) Largest Friday, Opening Day, Single Day: $120.5 million (estimated) Previous Record: $91 million (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2) Domestic Opening Weekend: $238 million (estimate) Previous Record: $208.8 million (Jurassic World) Highest Per Theater Average (Wide Opening): $57,571 (estimate) Previous Record: $48,855 / 4,274 theaters (Jurassic World) Top Opening Weekend for PG-13 Rated Film: $238 million (estimate) Previous Record: $208.8 million (Jurassic World) Top Holiday Opening Weekend**: $238 million (estimate) Previous Record: $158 million (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) Biggest Weekend Overall (Top 12 Gross): $294.5 million Previous Record: $266 million (June 12-14, 2015) Biggest December Weekend (Top 12 Gross): $294.5 million Previous Record: $259.9 million (Dec 25-27, 2009) December Single Day: $120.5 million (estimated) Previous Record: $37.13 million (The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey) Widest December Opening: 4,134 theaters Previous Record: 4,045 theaters (The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey) December Opening Weekend: $238 million (estimate) Previous Record: $84.62 million (The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey) Fastest to $100 Million: 1 Day Previous Record: 2 Days (Jurassic World) Global IMAX Opening Record: $48 million Previous Record: $44.1 million (Jurassic World) Domestic IMAX Opening Record: $30.1 million Previous Record: $20.9 million (Jurassic World)
[url]http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4134&p=.htm[/url]
It has a 95% (!) on RT and i now predicts that it´ll break the 3 billion mark. Especially if they managed to crack China in January which never saw a Star Wars premier in their cinemas. The industry standard setting way the films is marketed is worth a documentary alone. Hollywood history in the making folks!
Edit: China you suck... I now have to wait for a re-release to get Titanic of that undeserved podium.
I also read EU/US comics and am a librarian.
Manga-Masters, My ANN-Lists + Imdb
I had a conversation about comic censorship today, as one does, and brought up Marvel´s Maggia who are absolutely not the Mafia (who also exists). "Obviously" 🤨 .
I assumed that the Comic Code banned them but research proved me wrong. Marvel only wanted to secure a copyright it seems but Zombies were banned till the 80s, so they had to make due with Zuvembies.
Read up on it here and Lol a bit. I hate the 50s and their nonsense laws...
(I technically knew this as i read the whole column, up to now, so i learned to re-learn.)
I also read EU/US comics and am a librarian.
Manga-Masters, My ANN-Lists + Imdb
I looked through Wiki´s Protection policy page after seeing a new kind of (blue) lock on the "Gamergate" page. That page is a gem i tell you! That form of protection should come from the founder of Wikipedia himself and only allies to it, a related personal entry and the Arab–Israeli relationship 😲 . I have all sorts of problems with wiki but i can kind of see the point. Actually, it's about ethics in games journalism indeed. Poor wiki. All the internet "controversies" have started to take a toll on the site.
I also read EU/US comics and am a librarian.
Manga-Masters, My ANN-Lists + Imdb

9 years ago
Posts: 1701
I learned about different types of local anesthesia for dental work