Not only is there a Penis Museum in Iceland ( Icelandic Phallological Museum - Wikipedia ), but there’'s also a Vagina Museum in the UK ( Vagina Museum - Wikipedia ). The latter was opened when its founder learnred of the Iceland Museum, and thought that there ought to be a counterpart.
It’s sad that they’re so far apart.
My grandparents took the lid off the back of their toilet into (I think) Home Depot twenty years ago so they could paint the trim to match. I believe there was an optical scanner of some kind involved.
We used the Home Depot one in 1993 when I bought my house and ran out of paint for the bedroom.
Tommy Smothers played guitar on John Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance”.
If brown was a darker shade of orange, then orange would be a lighter shade of brown. And where would that leave beige and tan?
Low-saturated orange and yellow-orange.
A proper color wheel is three dimensional. Hue (color name), tint/shade (lightness and darkness), and saturation (how intense the color is).
Whilst trying to figure out why a Liger (offspring of male lion/female tiger) is bigger than a Tigon (offspring of male tiger/female lion)* I stumbled across the fact that there were many more big cat hybrids than I was aware of. Say hello to the Jagupardess and the Leopon, amongst others.
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* - I found an explanation but I couldn’t understand it. Check out the wiki for Liger if you want to have a go - Liger - Wikipedia
From that cite,
In 1935, four ligers from two litters were reared in the Zoological Gardens of Bloemfontein, South Africa. Three of them, a male and two females, were still living in 1953. The male weighed 340 kg (750 lb) and stood a foot and a half (45 cm) taller than a full grown male lion at the shoulder.
And the litigon? From Wikipedia…
The first attempt at breeding a litigon was successful; a female cub was born at the Alipore Zoo in Calcutta, India in 1971 to a female tigon named Rudrani and an Asiatic lion named Debabrata. Rudhrani went on to produce seven litigons, some of which reached impressive sizes: a litigon named Cubanacan (died 1991) was estimated to weigh least 362 kilograms (798 lb), stood 1.32 metres (4 ft 4 in) at the shoulder, and was 3.5 metres (11 ft) in total length.
As a baker and cake decorator I learned a long time ago about “black” being really dark blue. Have you ever eaten a piece of an “over the hill” cake that had heavy black trim, or a piece of cake with school colors that included black? Wait a couple of hours and learn what yellow and blue make when they are combined.
I was surfing YouTube on one of our Roku TVs last night and came across a video called “The Coolest Radio You’ve Probably Never Heard Of”. He’s right, I had never heard of Software-defined radio and I was intrigued by the idea. So I ended up buying the device he recommends and a cheap refurbished laptop to run it on.
Here are a couple of demonstrations:
I’ve been listening to streaming audio from Australia ( 6ix ) while I work; they just ran a report on the increase of people driving off without paying for petrol. According to the report, for every 10 cent increase, there’s at least 100 more drivers not paying.
That wouldn’t work anywhere I have bought gas in the US. You have to put in your credit or debit card before the pump will operate. If you are paying cash, you go inside and give the attendant the cash and you can’t put more than you gave them into the tank.
I ate one of these, a Misfortune Cookie. Later that day I had a small panic attack due to the color of my urine until I remembered the cookie. At least it prepared me for what was coming out the other side.
I also remember eating a cupcake with school colors of black and gold. This was before I knew what might happen. Scared me too.
I also found out that eating a significant amount of Twizzlers “licorice” results in an almost neon-green “end product”.
That’s one black item I never thought of. I like licorice but I don’t think I’ve eaten enough to produce a significant effect.
If I’m remembering correctly, the effect is due to the coloring added to Twizzlers, not the licorice itself. I primarily eat Australian licorice now, but I have to limit my intake due to potential heart issues.
This was news to me. A single Canadian man in WWII managed to capture an entire company of German soldiers and later went on to save the city of Zwolle in the Netherlands from being bombarded by artillery in preparation for being liberated from occupying Germans. He did that by convincing the occupying force that he was an entire army attacking them all night and taking groups of prisoners back to the allied lines. By 4 a.m., the Germans had left the town. His name was Leo Major. (Quora is weird, I can’t just link to the one post. However, if you have the sort set to “Recommended”, it’s the first story.)
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-unknown-facts-on-the-Second-World-War
Driving off without paying theoretically works at some places in NJ. Just yesterday I went to a gas station and asked for $20 of gas. He pumped the gas (here in NJ we still don’t pump our own), and only after it was finished did he ask for the cash. If I’d payed with a credit card, he’d have taken that first—but paying cash is different; theoretically I could have driven off at that point without paying.
Not to say I wouldn’t have gotten caught later on after he copied down my license plate #, but I assume that’s also true in Australia.