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Post something you learned recently. Doesn't necessarily have to be today.

I learned that British eggs would be illegal to sell in America and vice versa.

I am a very tired Brit who was raised by Americans, so I store my eggs in the fridge like an American even though I live in Britain.
Is this saying that I should store them outside the fridge like everyone else here does?

The article talks about how each country processes the eggs and how it's the opposite of the other country. Basically, the USDA requires washing and drying under specific conditions before selling and England requires them not to be washed at all.

Edited (gremlins) 2014-04-22 00:18 (UTC)

What? You don't put eggs in the fridge? Mind is boggled.

Since they're refrigerated at the store, you kinda have to. If you have your own chickens/get them from the Amish/whatever like that, you don't have to.

Re: Today I Learned?

(Anonymous) - 2014-04-22 07:46 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Today I Learned?

tabaqui - 2014-04-22 11:22 (UTC) - Expand

Today I learned about the wonderberry controversy. A guy named Luther Burbank claimed to have created a wonderful, delicious berry and sold it to John Lewis Childs, who sold the seeds. The Rural New Yorker, a newspaper, claimed that it was a nightshade, and thus poisonous, and that started a fight where Burbank offered $10,000 to anyone who could prove that the Wonderberry existed before he created it and it ended with the R.N.Y. being proven right and not getting their money. There were a lot of letters and editorials in the meantime and even professional Solanum botanists were involved.

This started in 1905 and ended in 1909. Kinda. The author of the book wasn't sure the mystery was solved.

Source: Nightshades, The Paradoxical Plants by Charles B. Heiser Jr. It's a really interesting book, if a bit outdated.

Note: Chilli peppers, potatos, eggplant/aubergine, tomatos, husk tomatos, mandrakes, tree tomatos and petunias are all part of the nightshades!

Apparently cooked human flesh tastes like veal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWAF9PgDg2c

Huh, I would think it would be gamey-er. I sometimes wonder if it changes depending on whether or not a person was a vegetarian since herbivores tend to taste different from carnivores.

Quite possibly.

An athlete who runs marathons everywhere and exists on eggs & meat & veggies would probably taste different than an office worker who spends most of their time sitting down, and eats fast food & litres of coffee.

I'm thinking too hard about this.

Re: Today I Learned?

nyxelestia - 2014-04-22 04:08 (UTC) - Expand

A commercial involving "strange but true" facts about my state recently informed me that in my hometown, where I have lived my entire life, it's apparently illegal to serenade your girlfriend.

To which I said, "OOPS! :D"

When I posted to this effect on Facebook, someone else local clarified that it only was true if you serenaded them on a balcony, and also added that ours is one of the states where technically it's still a misdemeanor to live with someone you're romantically involved with but not married to.

...I...I'm sorry, because that's all really interesting, and I love blue laws. But reading this, I couldn't help but think of Spreadsheet!Anon.

Hahaha. I honestly don't worry about that kind of thing. I have never made it a huge secret where I live (it was in one of my icons at LJ), or what my real name is (in this icon), or what I look like. I'm a cosplayer, which means there are photos of me all over the place, including published in a book alongside my real name and city/state, the cons I go to make it easy enough to tell my general vicinity, and ten years ago I was working for a gaming site under my real name (I still get the occasional person who goes "Wait, I TOTALLY REMEMBER YOUR COLUMN, OMG").

I avoid using my full real name on my actual journal or certain other sites where it would confirm a connection to the fanfic (since some of it's not exactly worksafe) - but aside from that, my identity is not even remotely classified information.

Where is spreadsheet!anon? I was hoping to crib some notes off of them or something. I feel like I could use that sort of thing, and we seemed to think on the same brainwave in some respects.

I learned that paprika (the spice) is made from bell peppers, and that bell peppers are called "paprika" in some places, like where I live now. Learning!

(I'm learning how to cook because I'm tired of living off grilled cheese sandwiches. Though, I'll be starting my student loan payments soon so idk how long my adventures in cuisine will last.)

I had an impression paprika and pimento were particular breeds of capsicum, not necessarily the one on grocer shelves as "bell peppers". Probably very similar though.

That chickens lay several times a day. For some reason I thought it was only in the morning.

Well chickens normally lay once a day, although you're right in that time doesn't really matter.

I learned that dogs can apparently smell toxins coming from cancer cells.

I learned that in a documentary a while back. It was really interesting watching them being trained to pick out cancer cells.

Wow, that's awesome! So I guess they could have a whole team of cancer-detecting dogs.

They can also sense oncoming epileptic fits.

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ansela_jonla - 2014-04-22 12:06 (UTC) - Expand

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diet_poison - 2014-04-22 13:19 (UTC) - Expand

Today I learned of the grelms that live here in the marshes.

It's a weird name for a thing, "grelm." I kind of feel like maybe I've been put on. They're actual creatures, which I know because I have seen them, but I don't think that they're actually called grelms. The person who told me what they were called has a bit of a mumble to her, so maybe it just didn't come out correctly.

Anyway, they are these marsh beings that flit around on double pairs of wings, rather like dragonfly wings. But they are longer and wider than dragonflies, and have markings like salamanders. They make the most unusual noise, as well. I had always thought the sound might be from a bullfrog of some kind, because I had never gone so far into the marsh, but it turns out that it comes from this little one.

So it was quite adventurous, really, and I felt a little odd, as I feel I should have seen one of these at a much earlier point in my life. Of all the exploring I have done in my area, I had never gone for a marsh walk before. Oh well.

I just wish I knew what they were really called.

Oh sweetie, no. :(

Re: Today I Learned?

(Anonymous) - 2014-04-22 03:41 (UTC) - Expand

I used to assume "tacky" only meant unaesthetic regardless of how easy or difficult something is to visually process, but apparently some people use it to mean genuinely difficult to look at, in a way that's separate from aesthetics. *shrugs* The more you know.

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