That’s right: interesting. It need not be world shattering, just interesting. Something that made you open your eyes wider, and think “Wow, I never knew that.”
Today I learned where the name “Mark Twain” came from.
Nao
My back door is not secure against an attack with a jemmy.:o
My taste in music is so poor that they didn’t steal any of my CDs.:o
The local police are polite and fast.
That’s three facts discovered by 2:00 a.m today. And several hours to go yet. 
So, where did the name Mark Twain come from?
Other facts learned recently:
Earlier this week I learned that the humming bird eats its own weight in food every day. This enables it to hover gracefully for extended periods.
Last night I observed that the same dietary strategy does not have the same effect for Morris dancers.
Like humans are very closly related to chimps Hippopotamuses are very closly related to whales and dolphins sharing a similar amount of DNA to that of which we share with chimps.
From Old Man River. Mark twain was called when the person measuring the depth found two fathoms: mark twain. So Samuel Langhorne Clemens being at one time, a Mississippi Steamboat Pilot, adopted the name Mark Twain for his writings.
But he also at times used “Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass”, which doesn’t spring quite so clearly to the mind.
Nao
Today I learned that no building in Washington can be taller than the Washington Monument (555 feet and some inches) and that the Latin words"Laus Deo" are inscribed at the peak. That’s “Praise be to God.”
Were you hovering without grace?
Or hovering for short periods?
Or not hovering at all?
Oh how, at this moment, I wish hovering were not a unicycling term. But I have just derived considerable pleasure from the image formed by assuming it was not.
Nao
I wonder what they mean by “building” though??? 
At the time of its construction, it was the tallest building in the world. It is still the tallest building in Washington, D.C. A 1910 law restricts new building heights to no more than 20 feet (6 m) greater than the width of the adjacent street. (There is a popular misconception that the law specifies that no building may be taller than the Washington Monument, but in fact the law makes no mention of it).
That’s from Wikipedia, so it looks like the law takes a clear view of what a “building” is.
Today I learned that from the point the first guy gets killed in Rambo IV until the end of the movie (not including the credits) 3.04 people gets killed per minute. That was hard to formulate 
I hope you understood.
Two fathoms being 12 feet deep. Of course Mr. Twain is 6 feet deep and has been for many years.
You’re crazy, same with the person you quoted. =p
The building you posted is in New York. The person you quoted said no building in WASHINGTON could be taller than the Washington Monument.
That’s weird too, because Washington is a west coast state, while the Washington Monument is in D.C, which is about 2,400 miles east of Washington.
Now if the person you quoted meant to say no building in Washington, D.C could be taller than the Washington Monument, that would make a lot more sense.
My interesting fact for today. Spokane’s local metal scene sucks. If you don’t sound just like everyone else, no one wants to play shows with you. Seriously, its bad. If I don’t see the band that’s playing, like if im looking away, or I am in another room, there is no way to tell the difference from bands. The screaming is the same, the beats and rhythm are the same. Its all boring.
I kinda knew that already, but just know its kinda hit me hard at how over-the-top it actually is here. Stupid emocore/screamo/grindcore/metalcore crap bands! lol
I learned about the end of the world in 2012 because of the Planet X…
They thought the world would end in 2000 too also.
Here a quick question. How many planets do we have in our solar system?
8,9,12,26? Do you know?
Is this including Pluto???
Pluto is a dwarf planet, and the Planet X is the “twin” of our Sun, so still 8…I guess. I’m just watching these: It’s the end of the world as we know it
I learned that the old box of Honey Nut Cheerios I found in the pantry was not stale so I had them for breakfast.
Human thine bones have higher tensile strenth than concrete. Aparently…
how can you believe that!? it uses the bible as historic proof, and if you Google some of the things that are sold as 100% (the IRAS discovery of 1983, and the 1992 NASA findings of large objects turned out to be clusters of objects) you will see that they are only half-truths Take a look at the wiki page for Planet X. It is not real!