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I DID Not Know That
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Was filing away paper scutwork, and came across some guide to China and the Yangtze River. It says: In the West, offering a cup of tea impiles an invitation to linger and socialize. In China, tea drinking traditionally signifies the end of a social or business encounter. When a guest arrives, the host serves tea. The business is conducted and only then does the host drink his tea, indicating the closure of the meeting. And also this: In Confucian thought, the cold steel of a knife and fork represents weapons and violence. Chopsticks are considered benevolent and non-threatening. Since a meal is meant to be almost a ceremony of peace and hostility, the Chinese choose chopsticks. |
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Then they are drinking room temperature tea, which isn't very good.
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Not sure if it's Pets-mart or Pet-smart. Still looking for answers.
Edit: Oh it's Pet-Smart. Apparently their website says. Well, that was embarrassing. |
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I was working around frogs today and trying to help one to safety it squeaked loudly. I didn't know they did that.
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I found out that Russia has a population of 143 million. I thought it was much higher, like close to 300 million
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That's why France, under Napoleon, invading Russia isn't as crazy as it might seem today. France had an exponentially larger population than Russia, and there were no 'weapons of mass destruction'. |
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Three things I came across in some description of an upper-end domicile.
Coffered ceilings - decorative depressed squares or octagons tile backsplash - counter goes up onto wall. I had heard of this but had forgotten until looked it up. laundry pedestal - still not sure what this is, i guess a space to store dirty clothes under washer/dryer Last edited by Alex Linder; August 3rd, 2012 at 07:38 AM. |
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Apparently, the word "retarded" is now bad.
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The inspiration for this thread comes from Benjamin Franklin's idea that you should look up every new word as you come across it and thereby expand your vocabulary. That extends to anything new you come across, especially in an era when search engines make it easy. Back in the 1950s a lot of households, like my father's, had one giant book of knowledge, covering all human experience, a sort of one-book encyclopedia. We aren't limited like that today, although those old books held a whopping amount of knowledge between two covers.
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The more you know, the more you can know. Old knowledge is a scaffold you can build new knowledge onto.
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Learned the word usageaster the other day. I had never seen it before.
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