just little things that my brain picks up (and quickly forgets) each and every day
i’ll be honest, this one quite literally blew my mind 💥 (it still confuses me to this minute 😳)
but yeah … as all great magicians have said – ‘prepare to be amazed!’ 🤡
#tdil how many times you’d need to fold a sheet of paper for it to reach the moon! 🌒 (yes, the moon … it’s not as many as you think 😳) Continue reading “today i learned – tues 26th sept 2017”
today, we’re back to finding out where phrases come from! 👍🏻 it has been a while since we did this!
the opposite to how i feel this eve (broke my car) have you ever been in an incredible state of happiness? 😬 yes? then you’ve probably heard this phrase!
#tdil where the phrase ‘on cloud nine’ came from! ☁️ Continue reading “today i learned – thurs 21st sept 2017”
find your best hipster glasses and grab yourself a starbucks – it’s apple geek ‘o’ clock people 🤓.
today, we’re going for some random apple trivia that you might not have ever even realised!
#tdil that the icon used for apple maps actually includes apple’s headquarters – 1 infinite loop (told you it was geeky 😂) Continue reading “today i learned – fri 25th aug 2017”
alright, as someone who works in digital marketing … in an office … i spend quite a lot of time making (getting confused by) mad excel spreadsheets.
i’ve always thought excel was only good for making confusing formulas and ocd control of borderlines that would make trump jealous 💩 (actual picture of donald), turns out, excel is useful for a lot more than that 😏
#tdil that it is possible to become ‘world champion of microsoft excel’ 🏆😱 … o.m.actual.g 🙌🏻 Continue reading “today i learned – thurs 17th aug 2017”
right, i’m afraid this is going to be another one of those fairly quick ones 😅 got lots to do and all that 👍🏻
any way, today’s fact concerns itself with my dogs’ favourite toy – the frisbee (there’s no emoji for that ☹️).
#tdil that the dude who revolutionised the frisbee, was cremated and turned into frisbees when he died #rip … that’s commitment to the cause!? Continue reading “today i learned – sun 13th aug 2017”
admit it, last time you yawned, you tried to get as many people to join in as possible 😏 go on … we all do it … if you don’t, then you should! it’s funny 😂
that pretty much sets the tone for today! we’re going all out yawn central up in this beast 😎
#tdil the reasons why scientists think we yawn and why yawns are contagious 😲 <- that’s as close as we’re getting to a yawn emoji 😂. Continue reading “today i learned – tues 8th aug 2017”
i’ll be honest, i’ve another sunday headache 😭 (which is a legit thing) so don’t expect anything too profound 😂
anyway, i’ve just finished watching interstellar again 😍 (literally the best film ever 🚀) and thought that i’d write about that today! 👍🏻
#tdil that the wormhole and black hole depicted in the film took both a really long time to create and required brand new tech 😳 Continue reading “today i learned – sun 6th aug 2017”
i has originally planned to be super efficient today … i was going to have this all written and posted by lunchtime! however, i’m not good at efficient – so, we’re back to racing against the clock! 😒
that said, i’m sooooo impressed with today’s fact … it has legit blown my mind 😵 like, what the actual?!
#tdil that an iphone 📱 with a full hard drive is actually heavier than it was the day that you picked it up 😱. Continue reading “today i learned – sat 5th aug 2017”
apparently it’s national beer day today … well, according to facey-b it is – so it has to be true?! as such, i was initially going to do a beer based fact today 🍺
however, in my search for beer based facts, i stumbled upon something much much better (and loosely related to beer).
#tdil of the existence of a sport called ‘wife carrying’ 😅 Continue reading “today i learned – fri 4th aug 2017”
now, i’m really really lucky to have a job that i properly enjoy … like, i basically do what i dreamt of as a kid 😍.
even so, i can’t help but really want the job that i learned about today 😬 i’m pretty sure you’ll agree as soon as you hear the job title 😏
#tdil that nasa is currently hiring a new ‘planetary protection officer’ 😎 … i’m sorry, but that is the coolest job title ever. Continue reading “today i learned – thurs 3rd august 2017”
have you ever just looked at someone fairly useless and just thought “how do you even manage to life?!” 😳
in the animal kingdom, i guess the equivalent entity to this would be the jellyfish … like, they have no bones, no heart and no brain … how are they even a thing?! 🤔 well:
#tdil how jellyfish are even alive 🐙 … i also learned that they aren’t even fish!? 🐠 (there isn’t a jellyfish emoji … so octopus will have to do 💁🏼) Continue reading “today i learned – weds 2nd aug 2017”
right, i’m going to get straight into it … the apocalypse is coming and it’s all facebook’s fault 😭 i know that we’ve had lots of possible apocalypses on this blog … but this one is legit 🤙🏻
(also, on a brighter facebook note, the blog now has a facebook page! you should go ->here<- and follow it so you’re always up-to-date! 😬)
#tdil that facebook shut down two robots earlier today because they taught themselves a new language that only they understood 🤖☠️ Continue reading “today i learned – tues 1st aug 2017”
