Today I learned that I have too many clocks.

Not today but in the last week. I have a salivary gland stone. Never heard of it. Now I know plenty about salivary glands. Not any fun either.

Today I learned about cobra chickens.

My husband and I call them cobra chickens as well. There are big flocks of them that are pretty permanently settled at the Chicago lakeshore and the parks around it and they can be quite aggressive. And they also have Teeth.

bpath, one of those beauties chased my toddler grandson once in a park! He was fine, but we still laugh about it. Little guy running as fast as he could!

I learned that my clock radio can change the time automatically after years of my having to do it manually. I'm wondering about that!

Over a weekend, a goose pair built a nest and laid eggs in the natural setting by the front door of our office building. On Monday morning, and for a few weeks afterward, the poor geese were really stressed, hissing and arching/stretching their necks at all of us.

Yesterday I learned that Oscar Wilde died in Paris and is buried there. We watched the movie Oscar Wilde, which starts with a scene from the cemetary just out side Paris where he is buried. I also learned that the two years he spent in jail in London pretty much ended his career, which was very sad.

It's still early here but I usually learn at least new one thing a day, often just a word I've never encountered before. Yesterday's was desquamation.

Yesterday I learned that Oscar Wilde died in Paris and is buried there. We watched the movie Oscar Wilde, which starts with a scene from the cemetary just out side Paris where he is buried. I also learned that the two years he spent in jail in London pretty much ended his career, which was very sad.

Lars, my daughter, when she was in roller derby, had the name Gory Anne Gray and her shirt number was C3.3 for the cell number Wilde had in Reading Gaol.

Interesting about the letter keyboard commands.

You can use the spacebar to pause videos and music too.

Thanks to a program called Museum Secrets, I just learned that Catherine The Great had mechanically raised and lowered tables and plates in her dining room at her private residence, so servants would not be able to witness the shenanigans she and her guests got up to. Guests would write their order on the plate and it would be lowered into a room below and filled by servants, then raised back up to the table.

She had the same machinery installed at the official Hermitage too, but it's all gone now.

Learned stuff right here...thanks. I did learn a new word, to me........coddiwomple, which means to travel purposely toward a yet unknown destination

Today I learned that Roxsol’s daughter was in roller derby! I’m impressed. That is a rough sport.

How much do you know about Paraguay?

At my dental appointment the assistant preparing for xrays asked it I had "Tori Bones". When I asked what they are, she googled it for me. Now I'm curious about whether there's any ethnic factor, or why they would have been part of human evolution. Does anyone here have these extra bones in the jaw, under the tongue?

Wow - I thought everyone had tori, but some people's are just extra large - like mine. And I was informed they get larger with age. Yippee!

I can still remember how much those dental xray bitewings would dig in and hurt like crazy when I was a kid, thermometers too. They still do. I thought everybody suffered from those.

I have tooth prints on the sides of my tongue because it can't go all the way down between my teeth - and I bite my tongue a lot too.

TMI?

Interesting, something I've never heard of. There are a lot of funky things that can be present in a mouth. Like tonsil stones.

I have a Cusp of Carabelli, a 5th cusp on a molar. It includes some kind of crevice oddity that can create a spot likely to have a cavity, and it did just that for me.

Today I learned that the white/blue Amazon bubble-lined plastic bags can be recycled with your other grocery store plastic bags. I got an email from Amazon and it talked about Amazon Second Chance and all the packaging that comes along with Amazon packages. It's good to know those can be recycled.

Today I learned why it hurts so much when they put those cardboard things in my mouth when they take x-rays at the dentist office!

Thanks Chisue!

I learned about civil twilight. This is when the sun is 6* below the horizon where there is enough light for routine activities without the aid of artificial light.

Civil Twilight – Definition and Explanation (timeanddate.com)