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I learned this and it's pretty sad.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-11/radioshacks-last-hope-for-survival-shrinking-fast-in-bankruptcy

I used to go to that store every week and spend a good bit of my pay check on electronics.
I always avoided the computer section because the prices were ridiculous back then.

In the middle 90's they started selling crap like cheap boom box and other brand products so I quit buying there and went to an electronic warehouse that sold pretty much everything Radio Shack used to have before.

Their Realistic brand was amazing. They later replaced it with the Optimus brand which was okay.
You could actually find everything to build your own electronic devices, like diodes, resistor, motors, circuit boards, transformers, etc.
Then they shrunk that section more and more every year.

They still had a great choice for batteries though. You know, those batteries you can't find anywhere else.

I guess the Internet pretty much put the last nail in the coffin.

Apparently the last chapter of Tokyo Ghoul is the next one, and there's so many things that weren't explained yet that I kind of want to scream. At the same time, nobody can leave that many holes and not have a sort of sequel, so I'm crossing my fingers.
This is why I shouldn't get invested in things, I get depressed when they end.

I learned the story of Chang'e, the Chinese woman on the moon. Actually there are many versions of her story and none of them make much sense. What's awesome is that Houston contacted the Apollo 11 crew to tell them to look for Chang'e and her rabbit companion on the moon and Buzz radioed back "okay, we'll keep an eye out for the bunny girl." Haha.

I learned that it's very hard to play any Xbox when it is sitting at my dad's computer desk. He's ALWAYS on it AND I just got a new game. This is frustrating.

I learned that my mom's car drives automatically when my foot isn't on the brake.

Would have been nice to know before I stepped on the gas.

I learned that working out every other day is better than working out everyday.

I learned that my mom's car drives automatically when my foot isn't on the brake.

I Learned that no matter what i do, i always end up back on this site :3

Avril Levigne and Chad Kroeger are getting divorced ((((

I learned that @Salvidian can return to this site.

i foudn the forum afther years of searching

You found the forums after years of searching.

rip learned he found the forums after years of searching

pang learned that rip learned that he found the forums after years of searching.

I learned that the Dutch shipbuilders from the 1500's to 1800's even though they were ahead of the other Europeans in their trade, were not so good at building warships. I was surprised to learn that because I always thought their were masters at everything related to ships.

They came up with the rear rudder though, which was an amazing technological advance. The Mediterranean shipbuilders still used two rudders on each side which caused their ships to be much less maneuverable.