So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?

[A Meat]

Slot machine tournaments are a thing

[A Meat]

The "con" in conman is short for confidence, and cons are confidence tricks.

just never thought about it until today

[xX_sp00ks_Xx]

Before recombinant human growth hormone (rHGH) was developed in 1981, HGH was only available by extracting it from the pituitary glands of cadavers.

[Great Joe]

The orb pondering wizard art is from a trading card game themed on Lord of the Rings, and depicts Saruman using the Palantír.

[Cheapskate]

Some scholars think that “the son of man” is just a Galilean Aramaic idiom to refer to one’s self that Judeans and Greeks didn’t understand and translated literally, so Jesus might have been saying the equivalent of “For even Yours Truly did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

[A Meat]

Some scholars think that “the son of man” is just a Galilean Aramaic idiom to refer to one’s self that Judeans and Greeks didn’t understand and translated literally, so Jesus might have been saying the equivalent of “For even Yours Truly did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

In modern hebrew the word human is בן אדם, which is literally "son of Adam", shortened to "adam" when just referring to a man. The name Adam comes from the Hebrew root א-ד-מ ('-d-m), which is the root for the word for earth as well as the one for the color red

[moooo566 (taylor's version)]

There is no dog menopause.

[Great Joe]

The center punch, the prick punch, the drift pin and the scratch awl are all tools that basically just boil down to "pointy metal with a handle for drilling right"

[thelizzerd]

I learned that only 27 states have personal property tax on vehicles and that Virginia has the highest personal property tax on vehicles. I thought that everywhere had personal property tax on cars before today.

[A Meat]

Apparently when the FDA told companies to phase out Bisphenol A out of thermal paper a lot of companies switched to Bisphenol S which has similar effects on the body and degrades slower, and there aren't any labeling regulations on it

[organburner]

If you have dry skin that's prone to cracking in the winter: Do not stick your hand in the pickle jar to fish up the last slices. The brine will hurt you.

[Macho Masc Sangy Savage]

If you have dry skin that's prone to cracking in the winter: Do not stick your hand in the pickle jar to fish up the last slices. The brine will hurt you.

Ignore this poster, embrace the Dill Bathroy you were meant to be and bathe your whole body in pickle juice

[jim and the mammograms]

If you have dry skin that's prone to cracking in the winter: Do not stick your hand in the pickle jar to fish up the last slices. The brine will hurt you.

Ignore this poster, embrace the Dill Bathroy you were meant to be and bathe your whole body in pickle juice

Only way to find out if you have dry skin that's prone to cracking in the winter.

[thelizzerd]

I was watching a youtube video by an animator where he talked about having Aphantasia and how it effected his art. Was like wtf is Aphantasia. Looked it up. Today I learned, Aphantasia is a phenomenon in which people are unable to visualize imagery. About 2% of the population has it.
Here's a summary about it.


Also, I'm pretty sure I have it. I just thought that when people said visualize they meant just think about the concept of the object lmao.

[Macho Masc Sangy Savage]

The modern vaginal speculum was developed by J. Marion Sims, a plantation doctor in Lancaster County, South Carolina. Between 1845 and 1849, Sims performed dozens of surgeries, without anesthesia, on at least 12 enslaved women. In these experiments, Sims developed a technique to repair fistula and in the process invented the duckbill speculum. These experiments, and the development of the modern specula, led some to regard Sims as the "father of modern gynaecology."

Was just trying to figure out how long we've been using the current vaginal speculum and suddenly a whoooole lot of things make sense