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What was the last random thing you googled?

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Mileymileymoomoo · 28/01/2020 19:42

After watching an episode of Boss Baby with DD on Netflix, I’ve just googled what is the difference between a xylophone and a glockenspiel.

A xylophone has wooden bars and a glockenspiel has metal bars.

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labyrinth · 28/01/2020 20:33

Why cornflakes were originally invented Blush

Fantababy · 28/01/2020 20:45

The drop in numbers being diagnosed with cervical cancer since the HPV vaccine was introduced. I was sure I'd read that there had been a significant drop.

justthecat · 28/01/2020 20:48

Mott the hoople songs

NigesFakeWalkingStick · 28/01/2020 20:51

Silent Witness (tv show) to find out a cast member. Nothing exciting Grin

Flupibass · 28/01/2020 20:58

Princess Margaret- just been watching the crown series 1 and wanted to know who she married

letsgomaths · 28/01/2020 21:14

Human fruit machines, and how people have done them for school fairs.

coffeeagogo · 28/01/2020 21:17

Moles - did you know they live for 6 years and come in quite scary varieties see star nosed mole www.google.co.uk/amp/s/api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/news/2017/04/star-nosed-mole-touch-pain-senses

followingonfromthat · 28/01/2020 21:19

@Mileymileymoomoo good suggestion about the playlist, but dh said he's heard it on the radio several times over a few weeks and wondered what it was.
Not really enough to go on there to pin down a day and time.
Obviously, since he mentioned it to me last week, he hasn't heard it again.

ThomasShelbysBunnet · 28/01/2020 21:21

The Betty Botter rhyme, I was doing tongue twisters with ds2 earlier and could only remember the first few lines.

Also, the Colonel Fazackerly poem Grin

BuzzShitbagBobbly · 28/01/2020 21:21

I googled "alternating plane lights" because I spotted a plane with them - never seen before and I live v close to a flight path!

I have now learned about Alternating Landing Lights: www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=67409

Video of it in action

FenellaVelour · 28/01/2020 21:22

How best to kill a horse with a dagger.

I’m a writer and it was research, honest.

SassenachWitch · 28/01/2020 21:27

Black palm cockatoo.

I’m like a child, every week I tell DP which animal I want. It’s usually a Llama, pig, Maine coon cat, a lynx, or a donkey.

It’ll never happen, I’m quite happy with my cat and rabbits, but I’m fixated for about half an hour.

The flavour of this week is the palm cockatoo.

RainbowCake · 28/01/2020 21:33

Simon Charles Dorante-Day
I was inspired by another thread about his claim.

Before that was "does the queen have to die before Charles can be king"
I'm watching the crown and now fascinated with this stuff whereas I couldn't have cared less 3 weeks ago...

Daisywho · 28/01/2020 21:34

Are the twin uncles in Katie Morag really twins. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thebookswereherfriends · 28/01/2020 21:37

The youngest alcoholic - horrifyingly, the answer was a 3yr old treated by the NHS.

PerfPower · 28/01/2020 21:45

When did L S Lowry die? (1976 if anyone else cares). About 5 mins ago. 10 mins ago it was to ask if Laurence Olivier was gay (he wasn't). The long winter evenings just fly by in this house.

PerfPower · 28/01/2020 21:48

That's really sad thebookswereherfriends. I wonder if they'll have a normal relationship with alcohol as an adult, or if they can never drink again.

jaimebravo · 28/01/2020 21:48

Settling up a honeypot server... I seriously need to get out moreBlush

TwoZeroTwoZero · 28/01/2020 21:54

Princess Elizabeth as a mechanic in the 2nd World War

LadyWithLapdog · 28/01/2020 21:57

Go karting in Glasgow. (Where I’ve never been.)

EggysMom · 28/01/2020 22:00

Ideas for the internal layout of the upstairs in a rear extension of a semi-detached house.

laaalaala · 28/01/2020 22:01

@Shockers I googled pastina too after seeing it on that thread 🤣 also googled milk jelly and fairy bread haha

Binglebong · 28/01/2020 22:06

The formula for calculating length in right angled triangle. Sorry teachers- I forgot!

CrowleysBentley · 28/01/2020 22:56

Do I need to wait until I finish the course of antibiotics before I can take fluconazole for thrush?

I am currently on co-amoxiclav for diverticulitis infection. This means I also can't take my usual painkillers for my back and hip pain as they aggravate the diverticulitis symptoms, so I am basically stuck in bed with the pain from all of that, plus I feel constantly nauseous and now my entire undercarriage is on fire because of the stupid antibiotics. I decided to take the pill and I covered myself in about half a tub of clotrimazole too. I hate everything at the moment.

Flowers18 · 28/01/2020 22:57

Are my feet size normal for 18 haha size 2

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