Topic: Today I learned...

[Mike]

Stolen from Reddit, of course.

What did you learn today?

I didn't learn s***.

[Dr. Nguyen Van Falk]

Eating junk food will make you feel like junk.

[Northerngimp]

Ants are well organised life form.

[firetotheworks]

Not today, but the other day I learned that the expression 'Daylight robbery' comes from window tax.

[Hanshithispantz]

Throat infections are f***ing grim.

[Northerngimp]

Not today, but the other day I learned that the expression 'Daylight robbery' comes from window tax.

Narrow houses and all that?

[firetotheworks]

Not today, but the other day I learned that the expression 'Daylight robbery' comes from window tax.

Narrow houses and all that?

I don't follow...

[QuakesMag]

I learned that daylight robbery comes from window tax as well.

[Northerngimp]

Not today, but the other day I learned that the expression 'Daylight robbery' comes from window tax.

Narrow houses and all that?

I don't follow...

Cant fully remember if its the same tax but in Holland and could have been here as well, people were taxed on either widow space or land space...thats why you see old houses really thin/narrow...to avoid paying the tax.


Edited

http://mjwrightnz.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/amsterdams-taxing-narrow-houses/

[firetotheworks]

Not today, but the other day I learned that the expression 'Daylight robbery' comes from window tax.

Narrow houses and all that?

I don't follow...

Cant fully remember if its the same tax but in Holland and could have been here as well, people were taxed on either widow space or land space...thats why you see old houses really thin/narrow...to avoid paying the tax.

Oh right, I see. I have no idea. I just read about the window tax that was brought in by the Tudors, and that's why you see a lot of older houses with bricked up windows, and that that's where the expression 'Daylight robbery' comes from.

[Mike]

Look at Gimp teaching us s***.

[Northerngimp]

Not today, but the other day I learned that the expression 'Daylight robbery' comes from window tax.

Narrow houses and all that?

I don't follow...

Cant fully remember if its the same tax but in Holland and could have been here as well, people were taxed on either widow space or land space...thats why you see old houses really thin/narrow...to avoid paying the tax.

Oh right, I see. I have no idea. I just read about the window tax that was brought in by the Tudors, and that's why you see a lot of older houses with bricked up windows, and that that's where the expression 'Daylight robbery' comes from.

Two different things, I thought they were realated for a moment.

[Northerngimp]

Look at Gimp teaching us s***.

[firetotheworks]

I didn't learn this today, but it's a fact that has always stuck with me because it's just incredible.

More British soldiers died in the last year of the first world war, than in all of the second world war.

[Northerngimp]

I didn't learn this today, but it's a fact that has always stuck with me because it's just incredible.

More British soldiers died in the last year of the first world war, than in all of the second world war.

Aye its mental stat.  Another one, when the Russians pulled out of WW1 due to their revolution.  The allies, Uk, France, Japan, US and others sent troops to try and stop the revolution.

Wikki i know, but gives some basics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_intervention_in_the_Russian_Civil_War

[Ishmael]

I've been reading and thinking about a few thought experiments from another forum. 

And I spent a bit of a car journey trying to answer the monty hall problem, which I did!

[Dr. Nguyen Van Falk]

There are roughly as many brain cells in your gut as there are in a cats head.

[Super Duper Branko Strupar]

I learned that Emily Ratajkowski is the greatest woman in history.

[Decky]

That Bioshock Infinite is awesome.

[Mike]

I learned that Emily Ratajkowski is the greatest woman in history.

[Ameritoon]

Ants are well organised life form.

Just think if they got truly organized, humans would be dead in months.

[Northerngimp]

Ants are well organised life form.

Just think if they got truly organized, humans would be dead in months.

Thats cos they are top down dictatorship and everyone knows their place.  None of this democracy bollocks.

[wacko]

Ants are well organised life form.

Just think if they got truly organized, humans would be dead in months.

Except for teachers. We have chalk.

[Super Duper Branko Strupar]

I learned that Emily Ratajkowski is the greatest woman in history.

Knowledge is power.

[Ishmael]

Ants are well organised life form.

Just think if they got truly organized, humans would be dead in months.

Well 99% of users on here act like ants so it'd be an even fight!