You Learn Something New Every Day (cont.)

[Anthony Bonner]

Nobody's perfect.

[StephanieL]

I recently bought a bag of dried fruit "for compote", imported from Kyrgyzstan.  I thought it had an odd smoky taste.  Turns out, smoked dried fruit is a thing in Eastern Europe, and it is used for compote.  Never knew about it.

Edited April 20 by StephanieL

[Wilfrid]

I have long been aware that Heidegger's Vom Wesen des Grundes was translated into English by someone called Malick. I just found out it was Terrence, the movie director, as a very young man (reading review of new book about him).

[Orik]

I learned how illicit border crossing works. I can't say it was all fun but as someone who enjoys this sort of thing I have to say the smugglers subverted the border control very elegantly using a keen understanding of security flaws (and some palm grease of course)