Did you Know?

@very-rusty said
https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/telephone-ahoy

The standard greeting when answering the telephone wasn't always "hello". Any guesses what the first phone-users said?

-VR

wassup?

@very-rusty said
Any guesses what the first phone-users said?

-VR

"there's nobody home right now, so if you'll leave yer name and number after the tone we'll get back to you as soon as possible"

a photo essay

http://facun.com/little-cities-of-black-diamonds

Pigeons can tell the difference between a painting by Monet and Picasso.

(True story).

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Pigeons can tell the difference between a painting by Monet and Picasso.

(True story).

i still cain't fly
lord knows i've tried
but i can tell the difference
between a haystack and one goofy eye

@rookie54 said
i still cain't fly
lord knows i've tried
but i can tell the difference
between a haystack and one goofy eye

The trick to flying is thrust.

Go now into the street and ask a stranger to thrust you.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Pigeons can tell the difference between a painting by Monet and Picasso.

(True story).

You see a lot of pigeons outside the National Gallery. I suspect they like pointillistic impressionist works based on the pavements there.

@relentless-red said
You see a lot of pigeons outside the National Gallery. I suspect they like pointillistic impressionist works based on the pavements there.

In a 1995 study published in the Journal of Experimental Analysis of Behavior, researchers reported being able to train pigeons to discriminate between paintings by Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso when shown slides of their works that they had previously never seen before.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
In a 1995 study published in the Journal of Experimental Analysis of Behavior, researchers reported being able to train pigeons to discriminate between paintings by Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso when shown slides of their works that they had previously never seen before.

But did they favour the Monet over the Picasso which would fit with my theory (vaguely)?

@relentless-red said
But did they favour the Monet over the Picasso which would fit with my theory (vaguely)?

Sir, they were pigeons, not John Ruskin.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Sir, they were pigeons, not John Ruskin.

Lol

https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/t-shirts

When T-shirts first came out, they were marketed as "Bachelor Undershirts". Can you guess why?

-VR

https://www.quizwise.com/

i got two out of seven correct
try and beat that

@ghost-of-a-duke said
The trick to flying is thrust.

Go now into the street and ask a stranger to thrust you.

In God we thrust.

https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/mathias-rust

In 1987, a plane unexpectedly landed in Moscow's Red Square. Onlookers couldn't believe who climbed out... nor could the authorities.

-VR