Today I learned...

[DavidB6937]

Kat Dennings is married to PARTY HARD PARTY HARD Andrew WK. Not sure how that got past me. Probably just something I've randomly forgotten.

[SuperBacon]

Jack Nicklaus was the first living non-Royal to appear on a British note, a Scottish fiver in 2005.

That was courtesy of the superb Paul Sinha pub quiz on Radio 4. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016hfn

[Wretch]

TIL that Uber drivers can rate you as a customer. Raging at that two star review.
 

[Rossman]

Matthew Broderick killed two people, by driving on the wrong side of the road in Northern Ireland and crashing head on into them. He got let off from death by dangerous driving and got the lesser charge of careless driving and fined £100

[davertfnewman]

And Jennifer Grey was his passenger and got a fucked up neck for life from it.

[Harry Wiseau]

Some companies produce electrical appliances such as ovens and fridges that have a Sabbath mode which allows people to use them without breaking the laws of Halakha. Sadly I don't think they have yet to come up with a way of adding Sabbath mode to an Iron (Ma!)

[deathrey]

Wow, that's pretty cool. I wonder how it works... Off I go to Google

[cobra_gordo]

That the Crosby, Stills and Nash logo was designed by Phil Hartman. Had no idea that he had a pre-comedy career where he's believed to have designed over 40 album covers, some examples which can be found here.

[Harry Wiseau]

The day Michael Jackson's hair caught on fire filming the Pepsi commercial was to the day the halfway point of his life.

[gmoney]

Samantha Womack (nee Janus) represented Great Britain in Eurovision before she was in Game On

[SuperBacon]

It's Dan Aykroyd, NOT Dan Ackroyd. What the fuck???

[johnnyboy]

31 minutes ago, gmoney said:

Samantha Womack (nee Janus) represented Great Britain in Eurovision before she was in Game On

What a time.  Ball, Janus, Sonia.  All the star power of the early 90s.

[johnnyboy]

29 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

It's Dan Aykroyd, NOT Dan Ackroyd. What the fuck???

That's the first time I've ever considered believing in The Mandela Effect.  Then again, I have had very little sleep and I have probably just misspelt it my entire life.

[Chili]

1 hour ago, johnnyboy said:

That's the first time I've ever considered believing in The Mandela Effect.  Then again, I have had very little sleep and I have probably just misspelt it my entire life.

As a huge fan of him I knew it was Aykroyd, but only remembered because it was a fucker to spell. Much like how I learned to remember the spelling of (Larry) Zbyszko of all people.

[Chris B]

On 11/5/2025 at 6:08 PM, Wretch said:

TIL that Uber drivers can rate you as a customer. Raging at that two star review.
 

Purely anecdotally, but based on some women I know, they tend to get more 1-star ratings than men on these. Not because of behaviour (based on the people I know, and certainly not from my partner who would genuinely struggle to be rude to anyone), but more likely because they haven't engaged enough with the driver.