Today I learned...

[Frankie Crisp]

TIL that the Always Sunny episode where they’re trying to get to the pictures to watch the latest Thundergun film is a reference to Danny DeVito in Romancing the Stone:

 

[SuperBacon]

1 hour ago, Frankie Crisp said:

TIL that the Always Sunny episode where they’re trying to get to the pictures to watch the latest Thundergun film is a reference to Danny DeVito in Romancing the Stone:

 

I heard he hangs dong.

TIL that the Orca Whale isn't a Whale. 

Year 2 science is mind-blowing.

 

[Wild_Skelliger]

That in Victorian era, to get the green clothing pigment for their clothes obv and wallpapers, they's use arsenic, which slowly killed many people. Especially when these materials came in contact with water

[wordsfromlee]

TIL that Tyson Fury is younger than me. I thought he was about my dads age. 

[Chest Rockwell]

20 minutes ago, wordsfromlee said:

TIL that Tyson Fury is younger than me. I thought he was about my dads age. 

Funny that. I remember being surprised at how young @tiger_rick was when I first found out also

[PowerButchi]

Fuck me, I'm 4 years older than Fury! 

[BomberPat]

Fucking hell.

Realising I'm older than celebrities/professional athletes stopped being a surprise a few years back, but that one's a shocker.

[Frankie Crisp]

That made me compare my age to some wrestlers.

I’m 5 years older than Earthquake was during the WMX7 Gimmick Battle Royal.

[BomberPat]

every time Earthquake pops up on an old bit of wrestling I'm watching, I look it up to check how old he was at the time. He retired before he was 40, but looked 40 when he was 25.

I did a deep dive into the ages of the Gimmick Battle Royal entrants a while back, comparing them to key talents in WWE now. It's the best example of how quickly WWE used to change compared to how little it's changed in the last few years.

[HarmonicGenerator]

1 hour ago, BomberPat said:

every time Earthquake pops up on an old bit of wrestling I'm watching, I look it up to check how old he was at the time. He retired before he was 40, but looked 40 when he was 25.

I did a deep dive into the ages of the Gimmick Battle Royal entrants a while back, comparing them to key talents in WWE now. It's the best example of how quickly WWE used to change compared to how little it's changed in the last few years.

Where can I find this deep dive?

[BomberPat]

24 minutes ago, HarmonicGenerator said:

Where can I find this deep dive?

I just did a quick up-to-date look on Twitter today after that post;

 

[PJ Power]

Today I learned that Fray Bentos is a port city in Uruguay. Apparently it's Spanish for "Friar Benedict".

[mim731]

TIL that the best before date on a bag of crisps is always on a Saturday. Apparently something to do with how factory production weeks work. 

[SuperBacon]

51 minutes ago, PJ Power said:

Today I learned that Fray Bentos is a port city in Uruguay. Apparently it's Spanish for "Friar Benedict".

I thought he was the Cuban leader who had been in power since the revolution of 1959.

[Keith Houchen]

8 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

I thought he was the Cuban leader who had been in power since the revolution of 1959.

But could he throw a shoe over a roof?