The Leslie Show

What I Learned Today: Honey Badgers are Terrifying

Crikey!  They're like Rasputin!  You can't kill 'em!

Warning:  This video is a little bit gory (as you can probably tell from the screen capture).  It's kind of like the anti-cuteoverload.com

What I Learned Today: You Can Buy Bobcat Pee Online

Looking for some bobcat pee?  How 'bout coyote pee?  Fox pee?  I'm fresh out, but I know where you can get some:

 Predatorpee.com!

Found out about this through a Seattle P-I  (huh, huh...pee...eye) op-ed piece on a local coyote that's bothering people around Seattle's Discovery Park.  Cathy Sorbo writes about the critter, and about how nuisance animals can be convinced to move along when they smell the urine of the animal that preys on them. 

Now that's some powerful aromatherapy!

I wonder if that works with humans?  Let's say you've got an ex-spouse who won't stop coming around. If you sprinkle a little of your mom's pee around the house, would that odeur du belle-mère send him fleeing?

What I Learned Today: It's not a kimono

So, my little niece Lilly (whom my sister adopted from China) loves Disney Princesses.  She goes through phases.  Last year it was all about Cinderella.  Right now she's big on Mulan.  My mother took a great picture of her dressed in her Mulan outfit and posted it, and, geek that I am, after I thought "Aww!  So cute!" I thought "Wait, (the character) Mulan is Chinese.  Why is she dressed in a (Japanese) kimono?"

Well, after a bit of research, I learned that Mulan is not wearing a Japanese kimono.  She's wearing a Hanfu, which is traditional Han Chinese clothing that goes back 3,000 years, and influenced the kimono. 

And that is what I learned today.

A New Category: What I Learned Today

" You learn something new every day," goes the saying.  Well, true or not, there are those moments in life where you pick up a new something or other that you never knew before.  They seem to come fewer and farther between as we get older...is this because there's less to learn or because one's mind isn't as open?  Discuss:

OK, here's what I learned today:

What we have come to know as "cinnamon" is, in most cases, not cinnamon but a close relative called "cassia".  Scroll down about 1/4 of the way on this page:  http://www.globalprovince.com/bestspices.htm

WHO KNEW?