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Title: TIL
Post by: BizB on November 28, 2016, 09:51:12 PM
Today I learned...
Title: Re: TIL
Post by: BizB on November 28, 2016, 09:51:57 PM
There's a wesbite dedicated to gravel roads - www.gravelmap.com
Title: Re: TIL
Post by: Chris on November 29, 2016, 09:07:58 AM
TIL that you're supposed to cut off the bottom few branches of the tree before putting it in the base. It was fine for the first ten hours or so and then once it settled all hell broke loose. 

Got water and pine needles everywhere in the house and carpet now smells like piss. Instructions were unclear.
Title: Re: TIL
Post by: Demosthenes on November 29, 2016, 07:13:03 PM
Quote from: Chris on November 29, 2016, 09:07:58 AM
Got water and pine needles everywhere in the house and carpet now smells like piss. Instructions were unclear.

Reminds me of a dorm I used to live in.
Title: Re: TIL
Post by: BizB on November 29, 2016, 07:51:27 PM
TIL: The metropark police aren't messing around when it comes to curfew and the new (but not yet open) mountain bike trail.  They let me off with a warning.
Title: Re: TIL
Post by: Chris on November 30, 2016, 10:43:55 AM
Saw this on Reddit and had to repost just in case anyone here doesn't go on Reddit:

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Three ships sunk in the same spot off the coast of Wales on the same day (December 5th) during the last 200 years and all three ships had only 1 survivor. And every time the survivor was named Hugh Williams.

I'm just waiting for someone to work out the odds of this occurring in the comments.
Title: Re: TIL
Post by: Chris on November 30, 2016, 10:48:48 AM
Quote from: BizB on November 29, 2016, 07:51:27 PM
TIL: The metropark police aren't messing around when it comes to curfew and the new (but not yet open) mountain bike trail.  They let me off with a warning.

GIS for "stop resisting meme"

(http://www.zenacad.com/chris/media/resisting.jpg)
Title: Re: TIL
Post by: Chris on December 05, 2016, 08:58:34 AM
TIL that no matter how much time goes by, people will never understand that the on ramp of a highway is designed for you to accelerate to the speed of the rest of the traffic currently on the highway before you're in said traffic.
Title: Re: TIL
Post by: BizB on December 05, 2016, 10:44:22 AM
One of my biggest pet peeves... that.
Title: Re: TIL
Post by: Demosthenes on December 05, 2016, 06:55:35 PM
Quote from: Chris on December 05, 2016, 08:58:34 AM
TIL that no matter how much time goes by, people will never understand that the on ramp of a highway is designed for you to accelerate to the speed of the rest of the traffic currently on the highway before you're in said traffic.

I am an utter jackass to people in front of me that do that.  In other words, if I'm behind someone in the on-ramp, I'm an utter jackass about 75% of the time.
Title: Re: TIL
Post by: BizB on December 06, 2016, 09:36:15 AM
TIL: Amazon accounts for 88% of the wasted space on FedEx vehicles