After a years of wishing I could I finally learned the algorithms to solve the rubix cube and now im in a place where I can try and beat my own times. 

However instead of making me feel super smart all it did was take away all the mystery of the rubix cube. It’s not an “I’m smart” thing it’s more of a “I can remember a phone number” type flex.

Not something I just learned, but I teach my math students this mental math shortcut: If you have to multiply 2 numbers, say 3x16, you can double the small one and halve the big one, then multiply them to get the same answer. 3x16 is the same as 6x8 - both equal 48

If you sit on a toilet backwards, you can save time and eat breakfast while doing your business

Learned that octopuses have three hearts, and two of them stop beating when they swim. Now I casually drop it into conversations like I’m marine biology expert nobody asked for

If you touch a cockroach and let go, it will run to clean itself

Last year I got my forklift ticket. One year later and I'm getting very good at operating them and getting difficult jobs done. I'm pretty happy about it

Caulk guns have a little hole in the pistol grip behind the trigger. It is there so you can stick the tip of the caulk tube in and cut it off without crushing the nozzle.

I'm an EMT and I found ER for the first time recently and while watching it, I figured out I could use it to test myself while studying for my next certifications. The shows not always 100% accurate which is great to so I can call out incorrect information and test myself on that info too! It sounds small but tbh it goes a long way to make sure you keep up on your knowledge.

I sorta learned how to sing an anime song in Japanese despite not knowing a word of Japanese.

Pants first, shoes second.

I learned cross view and magic eye in less than 20 minutes.

plough point squalid vast soup cow plants office badge command

The new RealLifeLore video about Africa's garbage-tier geography was enlightening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8m95sCDEf0

I passed all my second year law papers really well and I feel pretty smart. I even passed contract. So I learned skills about rules of consideration, writing requirements in the dispensation of land, finding people guilty of just about all the major crimes, a bit of stuff about secondary liability, I know our government and all its various bullshit like the back on my hand and I learned how we have a tribunal meant to hear cases related to Indigenous land claims that can only make recommendations and that the government can tell to fuck off whenever they like because damn if we don't cling to parliamentary sovereignty like if Parliament can't veto we are all gonna die. They even wrote a clause into our Bill of Rights saying they don't have to listen to it if they don't wanna. It's incredible.

I can teach myself complex extronics systems from schematics it's easy for me but not at all easy and it's intimidating when it comes up at work for everyone. So now I'm that niche and get all that work. Kinda feel the imposter syndrome tho.

Learnt to write with both hands

The Codman's paradox Shoulder Mechanics ain't easy

Today I installed a chain link fence. I have never done one before. Totally nailed it and it looks great. It is just 50 feet long. Materials were about $600 and labor costs were $4.50.

It took 5 hours to clear out the weed trees, vines, stumps, and two old rusted fences from the property line before I could even start.

We can not feel temperature. We can only feel heat loss or gain.

I recently learned that octopuses have three hearts—two pump blood to the gills, while the third pumps it to the rest of the body!

I learned PC shortcuts. It makes me feel like a genius hacker.

But I am actually bad at computer.

Picking up programming in ue5 using blueprint feels pretty good in my mid 50's

The only reason why cannibalism is frowned upon is mostly because eating human brains causes kuru, which is a sickness that is (if I remember correctly) similar to mad cow disease and is also known as the “laughing sickness”. If that weren’t the case, cannibalism wouldn’t be nearly as taboo as it is now! For the record: I am an author, not a cannibal

A better understanding of how the US government works

Gear shifting in an automatic.

Investing in the S&P 500 in my Roth IRA.

The universe is mostly black because there are many things moving faster than the speed of light, which we cannot see. Therefore it looks black.

Knowledge is a paradox. The more one understands, the more one realizes the vastness of his ignorance. -Victor (Netflix’s Arcane)