Today I Learned (TIL)

TIL you can request the Weinermobile to show up at an event:  https://khcmobiletour.com/wienermobile/request

Wally (Forum Supporter) said:

TIL you can request the Weinermobile to show up at an event:  https://khcmobiletour.com/wienermobile/request

I would like to make a motion to add a new category to the Challenge.

TIL the smart ForTwo was available in the USA with a manual transmission.

Today I learned mattresses can be  expensive as $150,000. I wonder who buys that. But this Puffy mattress https://bestmattressesreviews.org/puffy-mattress-reviews/ which I saw online. It is quite pricey but when you look at the features and quality it offers, it is right to say that it is worth every penny.

Same guy who has a whale penis leather interior in his Lambo.

Appleseed said:

Same guy who has a whale penis leather interior in his Lambo.

Correction:  It's whale foreskin leather, much softer.  I had a wallet made of it.  I could rub it a few times and it became a suitcase.

"Weird Al" Yankovic and Snoop Dogg have both cameoed in Epic Rap Battles of History.

Not the same episode.   That would have been too awesome for this universe.

M2Pilot said:

Appleseed said:

Same guy who has a whale penis leather interior in his Lambo.

Correction:  It's whale foreskin leather, much softer.  I had a wallet made of it.  I could rub it a few times and it became a suitcase.

If its skin attached to a dick, its dick skin. Semantics. I would never own anything made from dick. I have too much respect for it.

In reply to Appleseed :

In reply to barefootskater :

That's what I said. Dickskin.

TIL I have become my father. 

I need to start a thread on that show.

TIL about the Brown Car Appreciation Society. Oh hell, there goes my Sunday...

AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:

TIL I have become my father. 

Now, see, this is what happens when you play with time travel.  Don't you remember that movie from 1985 about this danger?

TIL I am an eccedentesiast.

Definition: someone who hides their pain with a smile  

TIL. I have two good size toads living in my front garden. 
 

TIL: Trim routers and belt sanders are not meant to be used overhead.

TIL if you search for "SL700 fuel line routing diagram" the awful picture I made in my thread is one of the first results.

This doesn't help me, since I'm looking for more information than I already have.

TIL that I apparently have (or had) some kind of poison ivy/poison oak/etc. in the space behind the garage that I spend Friday evening and Saturday clearing out. Yay. Thankfully I wore gloves and was wearing long pants so it's only a few spots on my arms, but will still make for a less than fun week or so.

wae said:

TIL: Trim routers and belt sanders are not meant to be used overhead.

Not without some sort of improvised shield.

eastsideTim said:

wae said:

TIL: Trim routers and belt sanders are not meant to be used overhead.

Not without some sort of improvised shield.

I assume that my face doesn't count, huh?  I was wearing safety glasses at least....

TIL (yesterday actually, but less than 24 hours ago)

The Dairy Queen in Neehan WI has good popcorn.  Apparently Archie's popcorn is a thing.

Ashyukun (Robert) said:

TIL that I apparently have (or had) some kind of poison ivy/poison oak/etc. in the space behind the garage that I spend Friday evening and Saturday clearing out. Yay. Thankfully I wore gloves and was wearing long pants so it's only a few spots on my arms, but will still make for a less than fun week or so.

A hairdryer should be your best friend about now.

EvanB (Forum Supporter) said:

Jesse Ransom said:

I didn't just learn it today, but it seems timely:

Do not, under any circumstances, buy the Fred Meyer/Kroger brand White Castle knockoffs. They are deeply wretched.

TIL that Fred Meyer is more than just a jewelry store some places. 

When the Fred Meyer opened in Juneau in the 80s, they had a lumber yard.

TIL: An old tire can basically spontaneously burst when it's just sitting there.  I went over to the trailer and the carcass of the spare tire is basically shredded.  The tire looks just like a tire that has had a blowout, except this tire was doing nothing but sitting there with no load or weight on it.  Weird.