So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?

[chai tea latte]

Jeeeeeeeeeeeeesus

[A Meat]

It was a couple days ago, but I learned that William Shockley, who received the Nobel Prize in physics in the 50's for inventing the first transistors, became a crazy racist eugenicist and was the only guy who publicly supported the idea of a sperm bank for Nobel Prize winners and other smart people only.

He shot his own reputation so bad that even when he won a defamation case against him, he was awarded only one dollar in damages, his reputation was literally worth 1 dollar in the end.

[A Meat]

Toxins are by definition toxic substances naturally produced by an organism, so there's no such thing as an unnatural toxin, and all those toxin cleanses won't do shit for all the lead, mercury, and arsenic you've accumulated, let alone any of the pesticides and asbestos you've been breathing. You want a toxicant cleanse for that

[A Meat]

Quarantine means forty days

[xX_sp00ks_Xx]

Azertyuiop was a French-bred National Hunt racehorse, who specialised in two-mile steeplechases. He won the Arkle Challenge Trophy at the 2003 Cheltenham Festival, going on to win the Queen Mother Champion Chase the following year,^[1] and then coming home third in the same race in 2005. He was trained by Paul Nicholls and was ridden by Ruby Walsh in every chase bar one. He is owned by John Hales who also owned One Man, who won the 1998 Queen Mother Champion Chase and the 1995 and 1996 King George VI Chase. His name derives from the top row of letters on the French keyboard layout.

[A Meat]

Yusuf Islam (also known as Cat Stevens, or mononymously as Yusuf) nearly died from tuberculosis in 1969

[A Meat]

Richard Ayoade directed the music video for Arctic Monkeys' Fluorescent Adolescent

[A Meat]

The Ge'ez script (originally for the Ge'ez language, the Ethiopian liturgical language, but later also for other Ethiopian languages), was originally an abjad written right to left like other semitic scripts, but around the 4th century it became an abugida written from left to right.

[A Meat]

ecology is the study of houses (eco- comes from the greek oikos, which means house)

[ikaribattousai]

ecology is the study of houses (eco- comes from the greek oikos, which means house)

And here I thought oikos meant yogurt.

[chai tea latte]

ecology is the study of houses (eco- comes from the greek oikos, which means house)

mycology is the study of my house

[A Meat]

Spa is an actual city in Belgium, after which spas are named

[Great Joe]

Iceland moved to permanent summer time in 1968, thus ending Daylight Savings Time.

[xX_sp00ks_Xx]

In PHP, the scope resolution operator is also called Paamayim Nekudotayim (Hebrew: פעמיים נקודותיים, pronounced [paʔaˈmajim nekudoˈtajim], the second word a colloquial corruption of נקודתיים, pronounced [nekudaˈtajim]), which means “double colon” in Hebrew.

The name "Paamayim Nekudotayim" was introduced in the Israeli-developed[1] Zend Engine 0.5 used in PHP 3. Although it has been confusing to many developers who do not speak Hebrew, it is still being used in PHP 7, as in this sample error message:

$ php -r ::
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM

[thelizzerd]

I learned you can get sun burnt driving a car.  Never thought about it before today and drove quite a while with my windows down.