Today I Learned

[DaveC426913]

I’m sure you’re right. It just sounds like famous last words.

Yeah well, there was a time not so long ago when stoplights had zero indication how fresh or stale they were. They were green until they were yellow. God help you if you were in that zone where you might be able to stop but you'd have to stand the car on its front bumper to do so.

 

[sbrothy]

Yeah well, there was a time not so long ago when stoplights had zero indication how fresh or stale they were. They were green until they were yellow. God help you if you were in that zone where you might be able to stop but you'd have to stand the car on its front bumper to do so.

Have you been a taxi-driver? In Denmark we call yellow light “taxi-green”

 

[Hornbein]

TIL that the most covered song in history is George Gershwin's Summertime, with 30,000 performances.

 

[OmCheeto]

TIL that Richard Pryor was born in a whorehouse, run by his grandmother.
Guessing that might explain his sense of humour.

 

[Hornbein]

TIL that Richard Pryor was born in a whorehouse, run by his grandmother.
Guessing that might explain his sense of humour.

Family life is important. I bet all the girls were in love with his baby butt.

 

[Hornbein]

When the first eyeglasses were constructed in 13th-century Italy, the lenses were made of beryl Be3Al2(SiO3)6 (or of rock crystal) as glass could not be made clear enough. Consequently, glasses were named Brille in German[10] (bril in Dutch and briller in Danish).

 

[Hornbein]

When the first eyeglasses were constructed in 13th-century Italy, the lenses were made of beryl Be3Al2(SiO3)6 (or of rock crystal) as glass could not be made clear enough. Consequently, glasses were named Brille in German[10] (bril in Dutch and briller in Danish).

Beryl is almost always colored so they were looking at the world through aquamarine glasses. That was better than the bubbles in glass.