Today I Learned (TIL)

In reply to NickD :

Are the engine, transmission, and differential original? I'd love to know the details if you have them.

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

Well, it's coming apart as far as it can. I had been intending for this to go back together as a 383. But if I already have some superior equipment, maybe I will just keep it as a 350 and see what I can do with that. At minimum it's going to get cleaned and fluxed.

I'll start a thread eventually...

I haven't canned hot peppers in a while, but did some yesterday.  I wore rubber gloves and everything!  Took a shower before bed but must have rubbed my eye while sleeping. WOKE RIGHT UP!!

TIL that several showers, intense face & hand washing isn't enough.  =~ (

In reply to 914Driver :

Try baby oil, mineral oil, cooking oil or such to remove. I think that the capsaicin is hydrophobic but dissolves in organic solvents.

TIL, actually  yesterday first and reinforced today, that Beef and Wasabi chips are spectacular 

TIL Nascar will have a street race in San Diego, CA next year.

Bless their hearts.

914Driver said:

TIL Nascar will have a street race in San Diego, CA next year.

 

More like a Demolition Derby.

TIL about Tick Twisters.  I had a thing on my chest that itched, up near the collar bone.  Couldn't look down to see it and couldn't identify with a mirror, so Mrs. 914 used some fingernails, "I think it's a Tick.  I'm just going to make you cry and not fix this, go to Urgent Care."  (2 miles away)

Because it was 9:00am there was no line, right to check in.  Saw a Dr. 10 minutes later when she whipped out this kit, got the little bugger out, DONE.  I waited around for 40 minutes for the nurse to give me 2 pills.

You slip the crow bar fork over the tick and rotate the handle.  It makes the tick let go, the get the body and the head,  

TIL and in reply to the breathing out of your butt thread, a Tick breathes out of its butt.  Dab some Vaseline or toothpaste on the area, Mr. Tick can't breathe and backs out.

My question is how long after?  What if he bails in your bed?

An actual photograph exists of Dolly Madison. 

914Driver said:

TIL about Tick Twisters.  I had a thing on my chest that itched, up near the collar bone.  Couldn't look down to see it and couldn't identify with a mirror, so Mrs. 914 used some fingernails, "I think it's a Tick.  I'm just going to make you cry and not fix this, go to Urgent Care."  (2 miles away)

Because it was 9:00am there was no line, right to check in.  Saw a Dr. 10 minutes later when she whipped out this kit, got the little bugger out, DONE.  I waited around for 40 minutes for the nurse to give me 2 pills.

You slip the crow bar fork over the tick and rotate the handle.  It makes the tick let go, the get the body and the head,  

You can also light a match stick (wood, not the cardboard), blow it out, and while it is smoking you press it on the tick to let go. Works 100% of the time.

Yes, I learned this from my father. No, I did not see him do this to my brother with a tick on his butt and ask wtf was going on. 

TIL that mascara is not just a random word for eyelid paint, Mascara is a city in the Atlas mountains of Northern Africa.

TIL that the song "It's My Life" was not originally sung by No Doubt but by a group called Talk Talk in 1984.

I heard it on the radio tonight and thought that it sounded familiar. Shazam to the rescue.

Before I get skewered, I was 3 in 1984.

In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :

Fair enough.  The original is much better, but of course it would be, because I hate Gwen Stefani with the burning heat of a thousand suns.

If you like "It's My Life", get a load of "Life's What You Make It" by Talk Talk:

Well Halloween's over.  TIL a  local Oldies radio station that I turn to when all others are having commercials, will be playing Christmas music 24/7.

The Cranberries’ singer died in 2018. Accidental drowning while drinking the alcohol she was trying to resist. Well accomplished lady and financially very successful, but overshadowed by mental illness issues, presumably stemming from years of sexual abuse when she was an adolescent. That’s pretty rough. And a sad ending to years of struggles caused by something both preventable and not her fault. 

In reply to P3PPY :

I never really like the Cranberries’ music, but I certainly was saddened to hear the tale behind her unhappy life and untimely death.

Her name was Dolores.

TIL you can play Phil Collins' "You'll Be In My Heart" on your daughter's Fisher-Price 5-key piano.

This discovery made me unexpectedly emotional.

A guy told me he sells industrial stuff to an ethanol refinery in northern Illinois that consumes approximately 1700 acres of corn a DAY.  

The owner flies his helicopter to work and then home. He lands it on a pad at home that automatically moves the copter into the hangar when he lands it.  Then he gets out and goes inside.

In reply to Datsun240ZGuy :

JFC, that's "life goals" right there. 

In reply to brandonsmash :

They even hint of their coolness…..