Does anyone else find themselves recalling random facts for no apparent reason? Like,

Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and lost

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Scots have 421 words for “snow”

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Name three.

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Snow

Shite snow

Fookin snow

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Fookin

Nobody in Scotland has ever unironically said “fookin”.

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Snow, sleet, slush. Those aren’t really Scots words though, I think they were mixing it up with the (also not really true) factoid that Inuits have hundreds of words for snow.

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Did we aye

Away an shite

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Laser is an acronym and doesn’t have a god damned Z in it.

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Laser is no longer an acronym. It’s now an anacronym, which means it’s its own word (despite originally being an acronym)

Source: Wikipedia

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Well TIL!

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TIL - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

That reminds me, so is SCUBA, RADAR and MODEM…I miss the old History Channel shows, especially Modern Marvels

SCUBA: Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (Blew my mind for some reason when I learned that)
RADAR: Radio Detection and Ranging (I’ve watched alot of WWII documentaries)
MODEM: Modulation Demodulation (I’ve worked in tech)

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So is Tuba: Terrible Underwater Breathing Apparatus

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Also, Lithuania is really good at making the fancy ones, like ones for research, variable frequency ones, femtosecond ones, etc.

I had to look it up, but we’re #13 by global export value (not counting laser diodes)

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Tegucigalpa is the capital of Honduras. No idea where I learned that

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The buttons on suit jackets are a holdover from a time that buttons were new, and therefore fashionable. Well to do sorts had buttons all over their suits, even in places that would be considered silly these days.

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When buttons were new and therefore fashionable? I feel like buttons predate suits by a wide margin.

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Maybe it was for a new kind or material of button? This factoid is from long ago and is half remembered.

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Similar fact - ties, as in neck or bow, are the only common men’s clothing item that serve no practical purpose.

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The little piece of plastic at the end of a shoe lace is called an aglet.

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I learned that from Phineas and Ferb.

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IT DOESN’T MATTER!!

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In what way?

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Their true purpose is sinister

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I was gonna correct you and say aiglet, but turns out it’s both correct

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Thank you Terraria for this useless piece of info

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Pretty sure it was the movie Repossessed with Leslie Nielsen that taught me this one.

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