Really, it’s okay to wash your cast-iron skillet with soap
There’s a tweet making the rounds today that is probably a joke, but hilariously horrifying nonetheless:
Today I Learned
Today I Learned is a feature where The Takeout writers share something they learned today.
TIL: Sympathy vomiting is a real-life phenomenon
I’ve seen bouts of “sympathy vomiting” in cartoons like Family Guy and movies like Stand By Me and yeah, I don’t really…
TIL: Why leftover rice could give you food poisoning
For someone who writes frequently about grocery recalls and food poisonings, I am pretty lax when it comes to…
TIL Frédéric Chopin’s heart was preserved in Cognac
This is exactly what it says on the tin: Frédéric Chopin, extraordinary Polish composer of the Romantic era, upon the…
TIL the guy who founded Tito’s is a billionaire named Bert Beveridge
This week, Forbes ran a list of the world’s billionaires. There are a lot of them. (Flint needs clean water, just…
TIL how the church saved wineries during Prohibition
I was talking to a sommelier when he just casually dropped the knowledge that the Catholic church saved many wineries…
TIL you can make a banana piano, and pointlessly smoke the peels
In the span of 24 hours, I learned two very different things about bananas. I thought I had a pretty clear…
TIL there’s a sausage hotel in Germany
Do you have a favorite food? Whatever it is, do you possibly love it so much that you would craft an entire tourist…
Behold, a tiny house that runs, like America, on Dunkin’s coffee grounds
As far as weird PR gimmicks go, this is a pretty cool one. Dunkin’, née Donuts, collaborated with a sustainable…
Girl Scout Cookie And Beer Festival: We want to go to there
When I saw the following headline from Liz Biro of the Indianapolis Star, I thought, “My god, that’s genius, that’s…
TIL: You can buy from Costco without a membership
Costco memberships start at $60 per year, plus tax. That standard Gold Star level affords the basic privileges, namely…
A large pizza contains more total pizza than 2 small ones, says math
The greatest mathematical minds of past generations were likely developing computers or expanding our understanding of…
Preheating your coffee mug is divine
I’m all about small life upgrades, the kind that take only an extra moment or two but measurably improve your daily…
USDA: A serving of French fries is 12 fries
Last week, The New York Times discovered that French fries are not exactly a health food. (I’ll pause as you let this…
Oh god, there may actually be reason to give your houseplants fizzy water
I actually learned three things today, all courtesy of the same source: Refinery 29’s Ask A Plant Queen column. Here…
TIL I need to clean out my filthy knife block
We know that the kitchen is a swarming cesspool full of germs and bacteria. But a startling article from the Atlanta…
Why you probably can’t recycle that pizza box
Pizza boxes are mostly made of corrugated cardboard, a material that gets the recycling go-ahead in most places. But if…
This Chick-Fil-A box hack will moderately improve your driving-while-nuggeting
No, this Chick-fil-A trick won’t change your life, but as far as fast-food hacks go, it’s pretty solid. (It actually…
TIL why people put out teal pumpkins on Halloween
Sometimes these Today I Learned entries are fun factoids. Eagles steal food from other animals! The Supreme Court ruled…
TIL Ben & Jerry’s has a spoooooooky flavor graveyard
Just a few forlorn steps from Ben & Jerry’s plant in Waterbury plant, visitors will find hallowed, haunted ground.…