TIL Thread

[coffee_rules]

Post your random  Today I Learnt facts.  It will be fun to realize what you didn’t know was known to others

 

Chinese Yuan is the oldest currency still in circulation, started from 4th century BC
 

 

[Mariyam]

The English word shampoo is a corruption of the Hindi word ‘champi’

 

 

[Tillu]

80% of what we consider taste is actually smell. You have only five taste receptors which perceive the taste of sweet, sour, bitter, salty and umami flavours.

 

On the other hand your smell receptors perceive thousands of flavours which primarily gives the food it's taste. That's whenever you get fever and you lose your sense of smell your food tastes dull.

[Tillu]

These are the default temperatures maintained by Indian Railways in Indian trains during summer and winter.

 

The temperatures here may look counter intuitive but it done to keep the difference of outside and inside temperatures to a minimum which result in energy savings for the railways and also it prevents heat shocks to the passengers.

 

[BacktoCricaddict]

Nepal's population has the highest percentage of women (54.5%) of any country in the world right now. 

[BacktoCricaddict]

Koala bears are the only non-primates known to have fingerprints almost identical to to the kind that exists on our fingers 

 

Fingerprints provide better moisture retention, friction and increased touch sensitivity. 

[Vickydev]

Damn you guys are learning a lot. All of this in one frigging day!!

[coffee_rules]

56 minutes ago, Vickydev said:

Damn you guys are learning a lot. All of this in one frigging day!!

Most of what newly I learn in a day is when I come across browsing Internet, SM, news or talk to somebody . Like yesterday , in the match thread, I mentioned that no team has lost after having  scored 587 and India will be first, somebody corrected me pointing that Kanglus have lost after scoring 595. That is a great TIL

[coffee_rules]

6 hours ago, Mariyam said:

The English word shampoo is a corruption of the Hindi word ‘champi’

 

 

It is not from one of your daily puns , is it?   is Soap from saloon?

[coffee_rules]

1 hour ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

Koala bears are the only non-primates known to have fingerprints almost identical to to the kind that exists on our fingers 

 

Fingerprints provide better moisture retention, friction and increased touch sensitivity. 

Yes, I saw this in a documentary recently. That is such a cool fact

[BacktoCricaddict]

1 hour ago, Vickydev said:

Damn you guys are learning a lot. All of this in one frigging day!!

Today I learned that icf is filled with geeks

[Vickydev]

2 hours ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

Koala bears are the only non-primates known to have fingerprints almost identical to to the kind that exists on our fingers 

 

Fingerprints provide better moisture retention, friction and increased touch sensitivity. 

I think there might be a sexual joke there somewhere but I can't quite figure it out @coffee_rules help out

[coffee_rules]

2 hours ago, Vickydev said:

I think there might be a sexual joke there somewhere but I can't quite figure it out @coffee_rules help out

No wonder why they say Koala bears are so lovable.  to you So perceptive about innuendos  , even I missed it. Unless @BacktoCricaddict has copied those lines, I’d say he was in a sassy and kinky mood!! 

Edited July 5, 2025 by coffee_rules

[Sandz]

TIL that Brunei is a rich county with very high PPP of $86,000 . The king is a rich bastard with 7000 super car collection and a golden toilet seat. I’m not sure how many wives he has, @velu can probably shed some light on that. 

[Tillu]

2 hours ago, Sandz said:

TIL that Brunei is a rich county with very high PPP of $86,000 . The king is a rich bastard with 7000 super car collection and a golden toilet seat. I’m not sure how many wives he has, @velu can probably shed some light on that. 

 

The Brunei king's brother is a big time womaniser. He used to maintain a Harem full of women from all over the world. For more details read the book "Some Girls: My life in a Harem".

Edited July 9, 2025 by Tillu

[Tillu]

How you believe the planets revolve around the sun.

 

 

How they actually revolve

 

 

Edited July 9, 2025 by Tillu

[Sandz]

39 minutes ago, Tillu said:

 

The Brunei king's brother is a big time womaniser. He used to maintain a Harem full of women from all over the world. For more details read the book "Some Girls: My life in Harem".

Looks like the brother is an even bigger screw up.

[velu]

For a very long time I simply assumed that hens need to have sex with rooster to lay eggs  

[coffee_rules]

TIL about flying Ants. Flying ants are not a separate species, but rather a stage in the life cycle of certain ants, specifically during their reproductive phase. They develop wings to fly in search of mates and establish new colonies. These winged ants, called alates, are the queens and males of the colony. 

 

I also learnt that they have a speial attraction twoards Indian Cricketer Bumrah.

 

 

Edited July 10, 2025 by coffee_rules

[Tillu]

Humans are the best endurance runners in the animal kingdom. We've evolved that way to hunt down prey.

 

Plenty of animals can run much faster in short bursts but can't run longer like humans.

 

In one such instance of an endurance race between humans and horses the event organisers had to shorten the distance because a number of horses were dying.