By: philipy
I would guess that "we" refers to "we, the general public" or "we, the audience for this website, as represented by us the writers who mostly identify with our readers". But it's pretty hard to know...
View ArticleBy: Decani
Why would you think the "we" in "things we didn't know last year" would include anyone but the writers of the article? Surely the only sensible interpretation of the headline is something like "Here's...
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101. The BBC has a new intern that they need to keep busy.
View ArticleBy: liza
i wanna play with gorillas. also, the 1948 Olympics let me to this pic which am pretty sure has my father running in it for the Puerto Rican Olympic delegation.
View ArticleBy: crossoverman
51. Wonder Woman was originally an Amazon. What? Had they also not heard of Wonder Woman before last year? Where did they think she came from?
View ArticleBy: sonika
I thought the bit about St. Helena was pretty interesting. I had no idea people still lived there post-Napoleon! I'm clearly not the smartest person on MetaFilter.
View ArticleBy: wayland
The pea thing and the mafia facebook thing both have doubles farther down the list. I didn't check to see how many more there were.
View ArticleBy: acrasis
Many people thought Queenan was cruel for that review. I didn't. If Jacob had simply written a stupid book I could have refused to read it. However, Jacob did not simply write the book: for a year...
View ArticleBy: Justinian
What? No, that's where your pets wait for you in heaven! I've always wondered about the whole Rainbow Bridge and pets thing. I mean, do the pets all die (again) when the bridge breaks during Ragnarok?...
View ArticleBy: straight
Once again: I refuse to read articles that tell me what I do and do not know. Why would you think the "we" in "things we didn't know last year" would include anyone but the writers of the article?...
View ArticleBy: mendel
3. Animal heaven is called Rainbow Bridge. What? No, that's where your pets wait for you in heaven! Way to miss the point of the whole glurgy thing. I went into it expecting the list to be terrible,...
View ArticleBy: Decani
Once again: I refuse to read articles that tell me what I do and do not know. I strongly recommend everyone else does the same. Seriously, is this just me? Does no one else get how profoundly fucking...
View ArticleBy: snofoam
Obviously, last year I didn't know that I could have two threads open at the same time and then comment in the wrong one.
View ArticleBy: snofoam
I'm not an urban explorer, but I know Steve and he's really a nice guy. I think maybe he was hamming it up a little for the camera, but he's really genuinely interested in this stuff. I think some of...
View ArticleBy: Sticherbeast
I mean that's why you can say 'Assault and battery,' right? If they were the same thing you wouldn't say that. Now is an opportunity to shed some fun trivia: after the Norman Conquest, Norman French...
View ArticleBy: James Scott-Brown
The review mentioned by ricochet biscuit. Some exerpts: "The animating idea of this misguided endeavor is that corralling a vast array of unrelated facts will, in and of itself, make a person more...
View ArticleBy: pineappleheart
ricochet biscuit, Queenan's put-down was even more cutting than that: He said that Jacobs would not even be the smartest person at Entertainment Weekly. I'll never forget how satisfyingly cruel and...
View ArticleBy: shakespeherian
"oh how cute that the rest of the world has figured out that they're using the word incorrectly." I mean that's why you can say 'Assault and battery,' right? If they were the same thing you wouldn't...
View ArticleBy: thsmchnekllsfascists
All the squirrels in the town down the road from where I grew up were black. It would have blown these people's MINDS. A few months ago I was visiting the SO's college friends out near Buffalo. I came...
View ArticleBy: ricochet biscuit
This brings to mind a book review of Esquire editor A.J Jacobs' book The Know-It-All, subtitled One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World. The reviewer -- I think it was Joe...
View ArticleBy: louche mustachio
Squirrels can be black. All the squirrels in the town down the road from where I grew up were black. It would have blown these people's MINDS.
View ArticleBy: jph
I thought something similar about "assault" shakespeherian; basically "oh how cute that the rest of the world has figured out that they're using the word incorrectly."
View ArticleBy: cmoj
1. The G-spot nearly came to be known as the Whipple Tickle. And thenceforth it shall be!
View ArticleBy: dobbs
People really don't know how to pronounce Van Gogh? Well, I've never heard it pronounced as Fun Cock.
View ArticleBy: fearfulsymmetry
So 19, a fave story of mine, turns out to be from Feb 2009, so 'last year' is a bit of stretch.
View ArticleBy: mooselini
100 quirky things we didn't know last year: 11. Face blindness - difficulty in remembering faces - is called prosopagnosia. Charcot and the gang must be bugging OUT.
View ArticleBy: jeather
Insectariums? People sleep on average just over 8 hours a day? Lots of people only clean house on weekends? Some of these are really boring and not even vaguely quirky. I will, however, have nightmares...
View ArticleBy: edgeways
yeah..this is more of a things-the-writers-didn't-know-last-year than anything else. to be fair some of the list is cool, and interesting, but overall it's a mediocre best-of-year list.
View ArticleBy: shakespeherian
American and British sign language is different. Some of these are clearly padding.
View ArticleBy: dabitch
Police say the man - one of the country's 100 most-wanted suspects - was responsible for the 2004 murder of a member of a rival clan, who was killed with a portable rocket launcher. Portable rocket...
View ArticleBy: Obscure Reference
People really don't know how to pronounce Van Gogh? Do they think there's lead in a lead pencil?
View ArticleBy: shakespeherian
You can assault someone without touching them. Who the fuck didn't know that?
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100 quirky things we didn't know last year, such as that pea plants can grow inside a human lung, mafia members unwisely use Facebook and swans occasionally get divorced.
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