# Today I learned **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [January 19, 2021, 10:46pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835 "2021-01-19T22:46:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 106
**Author:** ![JFG](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/jfg/32/8801_2.png) [@JFG](https://community.goactuary.com/u/JFG)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 3:57am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/2112 "2024-11-30T03:57:57Z")
There’s bubble bath for men. ---
**Author:** ![NerdAlert](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/nerdalert/32/683_2.png) [@NerdAlert](https://community.goactuary.com/u/NerdAlert)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 4:00am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/2113 "2024-11-30T04:00:45Z")
Let me know when there’s a bubble bath for actuaries, that would be awesome. ---
**Author:** ![JFG](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/jfg/32/8801_2.png) [@JFG](https://community.goactuary.com/u/JFG)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 4:02am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/2114 "2024-11-30T04:02:45Z")
You mean excel-ent? ---
**Author:** ![NerdAlert](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/nerdalert/32/683_2.png) [@NerdAlert](https://community.goactuary.com/u/NerdAlert)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 4:03am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/2115 "2024-11-30T04:03:21Z")
Awful. ---
**Author:** ![Breadmaker](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/breadmaker/32/83065_2.png) [@Breadmaker](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Breadmaker)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 4:03am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/2116 "2024-11-30T04:03:50Z")
Go study. ---
**Author:** ![JFG](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/jfg/32/8801_2.png) [@JFG](https://community.goactuary.com/u/JFG)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 4:10am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/2117 "2024-11-30T04:10:42Z")
Excel-scent? The scent of spreadsheets? Cozy calculations? Actu-waters? ---
**Author:** ![JFG](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/jfg/32/8801_2.png) [@JFG](https://community.goactuary.com/u/JFG)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 4:13am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/2118 "2024-11-30T04:13:10Z")
I am navel gazing. ---
**Author:** ![ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/arthuritas/32/63_2.png) [@ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/u/ArthurItas)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 4:16pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/2119 "2024-11-30T16:16:31Z")
There is an entirely different meaning to the word thing beyond the common usage > **[Thing (assembly)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(assembly))** > > A thing,\[a\] also known as a folkmoot,\[citation needed\] assembly, tribal council, and by other names, was a governing assembly in early Germanic societies, made up of the free people of the community, and presided over by a lawspeaker. Things took place regularly, usually at prominent places accessible by travel. They provided legislative functions, as well as social events and trade opportunities. In modern usage, the meaning of this word in English and other languages has shifted to mean not ju... ---
**Author:** ![The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_polymath/32/83081_2.png) [@The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_Polymath)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/2120 "2024-11-30T16:31:32Z")
Thats the part that I really like. Definitely an improvement. ---
**Author:** ![Snikelfritz](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/snikelfritz/32/5728_2.png) [@Snikelfritz](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Snikelfritz)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2024, 7:24am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/2121 "2024-12-01T07:24:33Z")
Crab bucket mentality. ![](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/3X/8/d/8dfb74f49a4fc1231e61c9af181d4dc8cb63eada.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![knoath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/knoath/32/65607_2.png) [@knoath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/knoath)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 6:42pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/2122 "2024-12-04T18:42:58Z")
Disgruntled is not the opposite of gruntled, so I should stop referring to myself as a gruntled employee. Disgruntled mid 17th century: from [dis-]) (as an intensifier) + dialect _gruntle_ ‘utter little grunts’, from [grunt] ---
**Author:** ![dr\_t\_non-fan](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@dr\_t\_non-fan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/dr_t_non-fan)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/2123 "2024-12-04T19:00:53Z")
“I’m not disgruntled, but I am a little gruntled…” reddit seems to think otherwise, as does the OED, [gruntled, adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary](https://www.oed.com/dictionary/gruntled_adj?tl=true#:~:text=The%20earliest%20known%20use%20of,English%2C%20by%20back%2Dformation). ---
**Author:** ![Breadmaker](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/breadmaker/32/83065_2.png) [@Breadmaker](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Breadmaker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 8:02pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/2124 "2024-12-04T20:02:22Z")
Ungruntled?? Degruntled??? Agruntled?? 🤷‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![NormalDan](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/normaldan/32/1013_2.png) [@NormalDan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/NormalDan)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 8:08pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/2125 "2024-12-04T20:08:01Z")
Been listening to Yuval Harari’s new book Nexus wherein he talks about Kulaks and what almost sounds like a mini holocaust under Stalin pre WW2. I’d never even heard of Kulaks. ---
**Author:** ![Actuary321](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Actuary321](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Actuary321)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/2126 "2024-12-04T20:22:30Z")
Fun with Flags. ---
**Author:** ![Actuary321](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Actuary321](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Actuary321)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 8:30pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/2127 "2024-12-04T20:30:04Z")
> [@1695814](#): > > It is thought to be a variation of the expression “toi, toi, toi,” which imitates the sound of spitting. In German folklore, spitting (or mimicking it) was believed to ward off evil spirits and bad luck. I thought the whole German language was an imitation of the sound of spitting. ---
**Author:** ![knoath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/knoath/32/65607_2.png) [@knoath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/knoath)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/2128 "2024-12-04T21:32:08Z")
In English it’s hawk tuah. ---
**Author:** ![ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/arthuritas/32/63_2.png) [@ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/u/ArthurItas)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2024, 5:08pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/2129 "2024-12-07T17:08:55Z")
Allianz has 7 stadiums with their brand now: Munich, Turin, Minneapolis, Sydney, Nice, Vienna, Sao Paulo ---
**Author:** ![dothemath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/dothemath/32/651_2.png) [@dothemath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/dothemath)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/2130 "2024-12-10T20:44:06Z")
Red Bull has some catching up to do. ---
**Author:** ![ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/arthuritas/32/63_2.png) [@ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/u/ArthurItas)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/2131 "2024-12-11T15:56:12Z")
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