In 2019, as a Halloween promotion, McDonalds in Portugal introduced a dessert with strawberry syrup called “Sundae Bloody Sundae”. British and Irish expats living in Portugal were not amused and the menu item was quickly withdrawn.
It feels like amnesja vú – I think I have forgotten this before.
I recently watched a video which claimed that the reason your mouth gets itchy/sore after eating fresh pineapple is because of raphides, tiny needles of calcium oxalate:
After more digging, I’m pretty sure this is wrong, and that the real reason is bromelain. This is the protein-digesting enzyme that makes pineapple juice an effective meat tenderizer, and it turns out that it’s also good at punching through the mucus layer in your mouth and attacking your cheeks, tongue, and lips, while also clearing a path for the pineapple’s acid content to cause additional irritation.
Today I learned about Mystery Flesh Pit National Park! Have you been there? Take the kiddies! (I disclaim any responsibility for nightmares, accidents, or cosmic abominations encountered at said park.)
Did that have anything to do with the Kentucky meat shower?
Alas, it’s not real. The only real flesh pits in the 1970s were the numerous discos.
Future historians are going to have even more trouble distinguishing fact from entertaining fiction in our era than we do.
When I showed my teacher friends the Huffington Post article about Betsy DeVos wanting to flatten school globes to represent the flat Earth many of them believed it. Apparently enough people in the US believed it that Snopes did an article on it.
TIL that, when Alaska changed hands from Russia to the USA, not only did it change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, but the International Date Line was moved from its eastern border with Yukon to its western border in the Bering Strait.
The transfer ceremony took place at 3:30 p.m. local mean time (00:31 GMT) in the capital of New Archangel (Sitka), on Saturday, 7 October 1867(Julian), which was Saturday, 19 October 1867(Gregorian) in Europe. Since Alaska moved to the eastern side of the International Date Line, the date and time also moved back to 3:30 p.m. local time Friday, 18 October 1867 (00:31 GMT Saturday), now known as Alaska Day.
What is the word for when you drive past all the signs and go sailing off the cliff into the canyon as though no one ever invented brakes?
That article had red flags all over the place. I assume there must be a Poe’s Law corrolary, that people will chow down on the absurdity because it makes them sneer-laugh, because oogah-boogah, or because vitamin-outrage.
I smell an ignobel to follow this research.
Seth Curry’s career NBA 3-point shot percentage is higher than his brother’s.
Their father was an excellent 3-point shooter as well, and all 3 are in the Top-50 in NBA history.
One of my dogs, the German Shepherd, is unfortunately a poop eater. 
I sprinkle plain (not seasoned) meat tenderizer in all of the dogs’ food. Whatever the reason, they eat the food but the shepherd won’t eat the poop. It’s not a 100% fix but I’d say it’s 85%. Which is better than a dog with poop breath! 
One of our dog does that then wants to get in your face and lick your mouth. 
Screw the metric system. Now I want to hear all these esoteric measurement terms.
The Republic of Somoa also did a date line change, to be more closely connected to Australia and New Zealand, skipping December 30, 2011.
They had also switched from right-hand to left-hand driving a few years prior.
Try the meat tenderizer! It works.
There’s a group in Namibia that rescues seals from fishing lines and other entanglements. Seeing these critters saved from our horrible pollution is both soothing and cheering.
There’s always the smoot.
Wikipedia also has a page of unusual units of measure, but the poronkusema is sadly missing.
When they made the change, did they have a song?
I hope that it went better than it did for Sweden.
I was in Okinawa when they switched sides of the road. It was actually pretty well planned out and most accidents were very minor.
Bus drivers had problems because they were taller than cars and would scrap balconies and trees, but it went much smoother than I expected. It was much more entertaining on the AF base.