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

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

-VR

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).

@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

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

(True story).

@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.

@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.

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

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

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.

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