TIL about “pink teeth syndrome”, where people who die in certain ways have their teeth turn pink:
Drowning, haemorrhages and shock
Choking
Yes.
Ty Warner, the man who created Beanie Babies, had a dream? vision? where a six-foot bear came to his house and told him to “Go back into plush” (and therefore into making toys).
This video is a bit crude but it perhaps better demonstrates the actual driving process.
I like how he says “early cruise control!” It really is kind of like driving an old tractor.
It truly was a great magazine.
Volunteers have been putting the archives up on the internet. Click on anything and an article with a list of archive issues comes up. You will be asked repeatedly to donate but it’s not required.
It quietly relaunched in 2020 and has released a half dozen issues since.
A while back a representative from the region’s sewage treatment plant was on a local public radio show. As background, the Sacramento area has one big treatment plant that takes in wastewater from every city in the region, as opposed to a bunch of small municipal plants. This I already knew, at least vaguely. But what I learned from that show is that I’m in the most distant city that feeds into that regional wastewater treatment plant. Which means it takes a full day (approximately) from the time I flush for my effluent to reach the sewage treatment plant. For some strange reason I think that’s a really cool fact to know, and I think about that whenever I flush now.
So how long is your distance from the sewage plant, so that we know at which speed your turds travel? 
“That old man Sewer; He just keeps rollin’ a-loooong…”
So I just measured on Google Maps. It’s 23 miles in a straight line, but I doubt they’re traveling in a straight line.
I imagine they at least travel in single file, like smelly ants
Canada - a few days ago a by-election was held in Mississauga-Lakeshore to replace a member who had resigned. In addition to the few traditional parties who had entered candidates, there were 33 independents.
From Wikipedia: “The Longest Ballot Committee organized a protest against the Trudeau government’s abandonment of electoral reform in 2017 by running thirty-three independent candidates, breaking their own record for most candidates nominated in a single riding in Canada, previously set in the riding of Saint Boniface—Saint Vital in the 2021 Canadian federal election.”
One of the independents had won a court case claiming that the $1000 deposit previously required to be a candidate infringed on section 3 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
You can see the results here: 2022 Mississauga—Lakeshore federal by-election - Wikipedia
That led me to the Wikipedia page for John Turmel, who was on an episode of Dragon’s Den where Jim Treliving told Turmel he was “blowing air up a dead horse’s ass”.
The coach of the Saudi Arabian soccer team is French. He doesn’t speak Arabic. Of course he has a translator. Unfortunately, the translator does not speak French.
They use English to communicate.
I worked with two Nigerian women who did the same. One was Igbo, the other Yoruba. Conquering Europeans rarely paid attention to homegrown national borders, creating countries out of several nations/tribes and often cutting their territory into differing countries or lumping two distinctly different nations as a single one and then wondering why people are upset.
A lot of educated Chinese people speak Cantonese, maybe a home language and English and others Mandarin, maybe a home language and English so they use English to communicate. My Taiwanese colleagues would do that when they were in Hong Kong.
I recently learned that Thomas Edison was profoundly deaf. I knew that he had a reputation for being a jerk who often took credit for others’ inventions, but I had no idea that his crankiness might be attributable to the fact that he lost his hearing in one ear and could barely hear from the other.
Many people from many cultures do this. English is pretty much a generic third language in most of Europe.
But we’re talking about the Saudi Arabian national soccer team. They have tens of millions, probably hundreds of millions, at their disposal. They can pay for a thousand French/Arabic translators. They could give every player on the team a personal French/Arabic translator by going through the sofa cushions.
The French coach doesn’t even have a perfect command of English, and has a broad accent to boot. Anything could go wrong in such a situation. The World Cup is the world’s biggest sport with billions on the line. You wouldn’t believe this was happening if you saw it in a comedy about a band of orphans raising money to keep the village schoolhouse open. It’s jaw-dropping.
TIL that you have to use a cotton tote bag for your groceries 7100 times to offset its environmental impact when compared to a cheap, single use plastic bag that is incinerated after use. If the cotton is organic it rises to 20,000 times.
Surely that varies with how and how often you launder the bag. If you wash it by hand once a month and line-dry it, is that still 7100 times? What about if you never wash it, which seems common?
Cotton is a very water intensive crop. Almost all of the environmental impact is in the growing of the raw material, it seems.