TIL there used to be a Crow Meat Lovers Association
Back in the day, the governor of Oklahoma just loved eating crow meat, and because he was the governor of a whole…
Today I Learned
Today I Learned is a feature where The Takeout writers share something they learned today.
TIL my dog’s bowl is a teeming cesspool
Making my usual rounds of food-safety news, germ news, ways-kitchens-can-kill-us news, I came across a tidbit that gave…
TIL wine is also available in shades of orange and blue
I’m quite the wine fan, but I thought I was breaking ground a few years back when I embraced rosé in the summertime…
You'll never unsee U-S-A inside the word "sausage"
Like many red-blooded Americans on the Fourth of July, I found myself curled up on the couch with a cold beer in one…
Yes, energy drinks can remove rust from metal
Yes, you can remove rust from metal by soaking it in energy drink. When I first came across this tip a few weeks ago, I…
TIL I could start my own whiskey blend right now
There’s a certain kind of whiskey lover who, every so often, pops into the store where I moonlight as a purveyor of…
TIL why wine gets stored sideways (and why that’s pointless)
I always assumed that wine was stored sideways for space-saving reasons (and that is a perfectly good reason to store…
TIL reverse vending machines exist
When I saw the phrase “reverse vending machine” in a headline, my cognitive wheels began to turn—but in a kind of weird…
TIL Germans have a delightful snack called “bread time”
I frequent my local German brewpub, Bayern Brewing’s Edelweiss Bistro, and I’m almost ashamed to say I always order the…
TIL you can speed-age whiskey with sound waves
It’s possible to make whiskey taste as though it’s been aged for years without actually aging it for years, and it does…
TIL you should eat dessert for breakfast
You should eat cake for breakfast, according to science. The level of insulin in the body fluctuates throughout the…
TIL all the ways I’m using the dishwasher incorrectly
You know those people who know how to load the dishwasher perfectly? I am not one of those people. Sometimes on group…
TIL eagles are just like that one friend who doesn't order fries, then eats all of yours
What didn’t I learn? Reading through a National Geographic piece about a bald eagle snatching up a fox who himself was…
The Supreme Court once ruled on whether a tomato is a fruit or vegetable
Picture it: I’m just sipping my morning coffee, browsing for weird internet facts (as one does), when I stumble onto a …
Fixes for wobbly tables are just an arm's length away
When I worked in a restaurant—one housed in a “charming” old building whose air-conditioning sucked and whose floors…
TIL why most fast food logos are red
It’s something I hadn’t even really thought about until this Business Insider video pointed it out: The vast majority…
TIL: whiskey vs. whisky (and why-skey?)
This morning, a delightful piece in Forbes reminded me of one of the more interesting wrinkles in the spirits lexicon: …
TIL the “club” in club sandwich could be an acronym
It’s not too often that I am actually surprised by things I come across in that bizarre social catch basin known as…
TIL what Jackie O. always ordered for lunch, besides gin
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had an impossibly, and predictably, chic go-to lunch order. Whenever she’d stroll into the…
TIL I should probably have 4 different cutting boards
Pretty sure I have about five million cutting boards: wooden, plastic, and this strange in-between-material Epicurean…
