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The most fascinating fact of the day (so far): in most European languages, the word for "bear" is descended from the same ancient word, leading to "Ursa" (Latin, like "Ursa Major"), "Arktos" (Greek, leading to "arctic"), "Ursine" (formal English), "ours" (French), etc.

However, in German (bär), English (bear), Dutch (beer), Swedish (bjorn), and other northern European languages, it's derived from the word for brown, while in Slavic languages, it's derived from the word for "honey-eater", and in Baltic languages, from "shaggy". It seems that in the northern areas where people actually had contact with bears, there was a superstition around not voicing the actual name of bears, so they were referred to by circumlocution ("the brown one", "the shaggy one", "the honey-eater") until those words took over as the actual names for bears.

Cite: https://charlierussellbears.com/LinguisticArchaeology.html
 
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johnireland johnireland
Hearing Aids can help...but your hearing will never the same as it was.

And most younger people don't pay any attention to this. After years of being the driver of a touring top sportsman/pro modified drag racing team I am paying the price. Being strapped inside a deafening coffin-on-wheels has taken most of the hearing from my right ear.
 
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I've had compromised hearing for ten years...but a trip to an outdoor gun range three months ago, and the mistaken judgement that being outdoors, I wouldn't need ear protection, has left me with just 10% of my normal hearing...or to put it the other way...I've lost 90%. The new hearing aids I just got have me back to 50% in some ways...but I doubt I will ever be able to enjoy music again...it is all like static now. Just one stupid decision on one little day.
 
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WILT:

Point Nemo in the South Pacific Ocean is nominated as Most Remote Location On Planet Earth. It is the furthest place on the Earth from land.

It is home to over 300 spacecraft and associated space debris, including the MIR space station, the first ever object assembled in planetary orbit by Russian cosmonauts.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/point-nemo


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Evitzee Evitzee
That's the same group of people that pine for the return of Lucas electrics.
Turns out there is nothing wrong with Lucas… it’s idiots that used non Lucas fuses. Lucas fuses where rated for max load, and other fuses for continuous load. Hence the issues.
 
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I learnt that I want a bike again...even after I wrote the last one off. Unfortunately Mrs Blubarb has very little interest in what I learnt today.

 
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Today I learned people on Facebook groups think super clones exist for vintage pieces.
 
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That lasers are used for rust removal...

 
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Archer Archer
That lasers are used for rust removal...


I learned/learnt that I don't need one, but I know I WANT one!
 
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JimInOz JimInOz
I learned/learnt that I don't need one, but I know I WANT one!

This got me thinking...so I learnt/learned the following:

Learnt and learned are both used as the past participle and past tense of the verb to learn. Learned is the generally accepted spelling in the United States and Canada, while the rest of the English-speaking world seems to prefer learnt.

Learn more about the details of this difference below.

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The Difference between Learned and Learnt
Whether you’re saying you learned something or learnt something, you’re talking about the same thing—the process of finding out, acquiring, or retaining knowledge or information. The only difference is that the way you spell it says something about where you’re from. Learnt and learned are both used as the past participle and past tense of the verb to learn. Learned is the generally accepted way of spelling it in the United States and Canada, while the rest of the English-speaking world seems to prefer learnt for now.

Why for now? The American English tendency toward making irregular verbs into regular ones has started influencing British English, which is why the -ed variant is becoming increasingly used around the world. Soon learned might be the most common form everywhere.

From: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/learned-learnt/
 
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I am glad I learned that you learnt that today 😉
 
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I'm glad that you are glad that you learnt that I learned that today 😁


ps. Let's please stop here 😁😁 and I concede the win to your learned self...oh boy...this could go on forever...
 
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I have learnt in my life that irregulars are the color of life so I favor them 😎
 
blubarb
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That SOS does not stand for Save our Souls. It stands for nothing. It was chosen because of the simplicity of the code. •••---•••
 
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That Jello-o or Jelly as we say in Australia is not a seafood made from jelly fish (sorry, poor dad joke) 🤦 but is produced by processing "animal bones, cartilage material, as well as skin. They may use the bodies of cows or fish, as an example. The procedure extracts the collagen, a fibrous healthy protein that attaches muscles, bones, and skin, as well as turns it right into gelatin, a flavorless, anemic, jelly-like material."

It's both gross and tasty at the same time. 👎
 
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blubarb blubarb
That Jello-o or Jelly as we say in Australia is not a seafood made from jelly fish (sorry, poor dad joke) 🤦 but is produced by processing "animal bones, cartilage material, as well as skin. They may use the bodies of cows or fish, as an example. The procedure extracts the collagen, a fibrous healthy protein that attaches muscles, bones, and skin, as well as turns it right into gelatin, a flavorless, anemic, jelly-like material."

It's both gross and tasty at the same time. 👎

Gelatin is actually collagen which is the fat on the inside of cow and pig skin..
(Ex-butcher and uncle was a pay master at a abattoir)
Most collagen goes into ladies makeup or kids sweets/lollies
Highest grades is that stuff in the bottom of your test tube used at doctors to stop blood clotting before it’s tested.
A lot of money in a cow besides the meat. 😉

Blood and bone you put on your garden is basically what it is 🙁
 
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