# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![BG5150](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/bg5150/32/38521_2.png) [@BG5150](https://community.goactuary.com/u/BG5150)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/62 "2021-12-07T19:45:41Z")
What do the Truth In Lending laws have to do with PowerPoint? ---
**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 13, 2021, 2:15am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/63 "2021-12-13T02:15:36Z")
A catalfaque is the framework to support a coffin while on display, as in while lying in state. The catalfaque used in the US capitol for those lying in state was originally built for Lincoln. > **[Lincoln Catafalque | Architect of the Capitol](https://www.aoc.gov/what-we-do/programs-ceremonies/lying-in-state-honor/lincoln-catafalque)** > > The Lincoln catafalque is a platform constructed in 1865 to support the casket of Abraham Lincoln while the president's body lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. It is a simple base of rough pine boards nailed together and covered with black... ---
**Author:** ![1695814](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/1695814/32/38506_2.png) [@1695814](https://community.goactuary.com/u/1695814)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/64 "2021-12-17T14:51:23Z")
One of the suggestions for the name of Minnesota was Washington. [https://www.startribune.com/mnisota-mni-sota-dakota-language-minnesota-river-state-name/600114154/](https://www.startribune.com/mnisota-mni-sota-dakota-language-minnesota-river-state-name/600114154/) > [@](#): > > Mní Sota would take on new significance in 1846, when the first bill to [create the “Minasota” Territory](https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_History_of_Minnesota/2SYUAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22minasota%22+1847&pg=PA235&printsec=frontcover) was introduced to Congress by Wisconsin Territorial Delegate Morgan Martin. > > Not everyone was sold on the idea. The chairman of the Committee on Territories, a representative from Illinois, [amended the bill to instead call](https://www.congress.gov/29/llhb/H.R.568v1.pdf) the new territory “Itaska.” Itasca is [derived from the Latin words](http://startribune.com/does-the-mississippi-river-really-start-in-minnesota-s-tiny-lake-itasca/508757631/?refresh=true) for “truth” and “head,” referring to the Mississippi River headwaters. Other representatives suggested “Jackson,” “ **Washington** ” and “Chippewa,” according to the 1908 book “Minnesota in Three Centuries.” > > The House of Representatives ultimately passed the bill with the name “Minnesota,” spelled as it is today, but it died in the Senate, according to [Folwell’s history](https://books.google.com/books?id=2SYUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA235&lpg=PA235#v=onepage&q&f=false). A later attempt [succeeded in 1849](https://www.sos.state.mn.us/media/2297/organicact.pdf), however, and the Minnesota Territory was born. The state, established in 1858, took the same name. ---
**Author:** ![twig93](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/twig93/32/527_2.png) [@twig93](https://community.goactuary.com/u/twig93)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/65 "2021-12-17T14:57:16Z")
Interesting. I’ve been on a Chippewa reservation in Wisconsin near the UP. Didn’t realize Chippewa extended into Minnesota. I wonder what Washington state would have selected if “Washington” was already taken. ---
**Author:** ![1695814](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/1695814/32/38506_2.png) [@1695814](https://community.goactuary.com/u/1695814)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/66 "2021-12-17T15:04:00Z")
> [@twig93](#): > > I wonder what Washington state would have selected if “Washington” was already taken. My thought, too. Perhaps, they would’ve gone with “Columbia, DW” ---
**Author:** ![Ranger](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/ranger/32/185_2.png) [@Ranger](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Ranger)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/67 "2021-12-17T15:15:13Z")
I’m laughing at the PC storm we’d be witnessing if the state had been called “Jackson”. Has any state/commonwealth ever changed it’s named after becoming a state? ---
**Author:** ![twig93](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/twig93/32/527_2.png) [@twig93](https://community.goactuary.com/u/twig93)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/68 "2021-12-17T15:33:55Z")
> [@Ranger](#): > > Has any state/commonwealth ever changed it’s named after becoming a state? Other than to become a new state (such as Maine breaking off from Massachusetts or Kentucky and later West Virginia breaking off from Virginia) I think Rhode Island is the only one. And that was pretty trivial. 1790 - 2020: State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 2020 - present: State of Rhode Island ---
**Author:** ![DeepPurple](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/deeppurple/32/1551_2.png) [@DeepPurple](https://community.goactuary.com/u/DeepPurple)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2021, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/69 "2021-12-30T16:31:53Z")
Many people know that the theme song to the tv show **The Big Bang Theory** was performed by Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies. But do you know who performs the theme song to the spinoff show **Young Sheldon**? {it goes…“I Am a Mighty Little Man”} ![image](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/2X/d/db0f7c232daa2f8d8ee666f919663811323bd64c.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/u/tommie.frazier)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/70 "2021-12-30T20:58:02Z")
steve was the coolest! ---
**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 30, 2021, 9:57pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/71 "2021-12-30T21:57:33Z")
In Germany, one New Year’s tradition is to make fried yeast donuts filled with … with… 🙄 🤢 rai-SINS!!! 🤮 Do you know what they are called in German??? Rheinische Krapfen. Yup, KRAP-fen. Sounds about right. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/ranger/32/185_2.png) [@Ranger](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Ranger)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 2:41am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/72 "2021-12-31T02:41:25Z")
Sind Sie verrückt? Rheinische Krapfen schmeckt gut! ---
**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 31, 2021, 3:17am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/73 "2021-12-31T03:17:18Z")
Nein!!! 👎 ---
**Author:** ![1695814](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/1695814/32/38506_2.png) [@1695814](https://community.goactuary.com/u/1695814)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 3:23am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/74 "2021-12-31T03:23:46Z")
In my house it is NYE tradition to make [Fleischküchlein](https://archive.is/dvRWK#selection-1383.0-1385.0)…which is dough filled with hamburger, onion, and raSINS!!! …j/k no raisins…just a meat mixture in dough and deep fried. This year, for a variety of reasons, I won’t be making it. 😢 ---
**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 31, 2021, 3:24am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/75 "2021-12-31T03:24:48Z")
Now this is how you deep fry dough!!! 👍 I’m sorry to hear you won’t this year. 😢 ---
**Author:** ![Mathman](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/mathman/32/14042_2.png) [@Mathman](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Mathman)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/76 "2022-01-06T15:11:43Z")
I’m way out of the loop on TV shows, I don’t watch a ton. I recently learned where @soyleche got his forking sig line because I started watching that one. ---
**Author:** ![Marcie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/marcie/32/8789_2.png) [@Marcie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Marcie)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/77 "2022-01-06T16:26:45Z")
Today I was reminded this place has sig lines. I’ve had them hidden for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Lucy](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/lucy/32/8802_2.png) [@Lucy](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Lucy)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 4:42pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/78 "2022-01-06T16:42:02Z")
Me, too. I feel like sig lines take up too much real estate in this format, and are really annoying. So I turned them off pretty much as soon as I realized I could. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/79 "2022-01-06T16:53:54Z")
Is there a way to see someone’s sig without turning them on? ---
**Author:** ![Mathman](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/mathman/32/14042_2.png) [@Mathman](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Mathman)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 5:33pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/80 "2022-01-06T17:33:13Z")
I don’t know. But here is the sig line in question in case you’re still wondering. _“We do nothing. We hope that our early successes make up for the embarrassing mess we’ve become. Like Facebook. Or America.” – Eleanor Shellstrop_ ---
**Author:** ![tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/u/tommie.frazier)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 7:45pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835/81 "2022-01-06T19:45:37Z")
my favorite arizona trash can. also a straight up snack! loved that show. [Previous page](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835.md?page=3) [Next page](https://community.goactuary.com/t/today-i-learned/1835.md?page=5)