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Ah, finally I can share mine that i learned a while ago.

Using hand soap , you know these soap bars when washing hands.

Put water on one hand, grab the soap bar with the DRY HAND and rub the var against the wet hand. Then put down the soap bar hand rub hands and wash like ordinary.

The bar will not be soggy, crack or look nasty or leave a puddle of half dilluted soap,instead it will stay in really good shape and almost no soap will be wasted on the puddle below it. And the soap will jist last for ages this way and still be effective.

Maybe we just forgot this way and that is why the liquid soap has taken over, in my house we have one toilet where guests usually uses and there the hand soap bar gets ruined really quickly so we replaced it with a liquid soap dispenser...but it always surpises me how often it needs to be refilled.

I learned that soap is a salt and that acids like vinegar break it down and kind of rerelease the fatty acid that made it up.

It was very gross.

Not too long ago I learned that you're not supposed to rinse your mouth out after brushing your teeth, but instead just spit out the toothpaste. Apparently you're supposed to leave a coating of it on your teeth for it to work properly.

I don't know about "wrong", but I recently found out people think it's weird that I attempt all the across clues in a crossword in order, and then all the down clues? Evidently most people jump around and make use of the extra letters they've been getting?

It never even occurred to me to not just do all the clues in order. 😬

For years I kept dating and being in relationships and putting a lot of effort into it. Also socializing and making friends too.

I gave up about 5 years ago and I'm much much happier with my life. It's amazing how much better I feel on a daily basis when my energy and efforts aren't going into a black hole from which no joy comes out. I also rapidly achieved a lot of life goals after 10+ years of achieving almost none of them.

Being mostly totally alone is completely awesome and I'm annoyed that other people convinced me it was terrible and awful.

Not actually recent, but a while back I learned that what we call the "bottom" of the banana is actually the top, flowering end. Turns out it's way easier to open a banana at the flowering/non-stem end. So many years I'd been opening them at the other end, trying to snap off the stem part, mushing up that end of the banana most of the time.

Granny knot. Making the knot the right way helps top never having to re-tie my shoes during the whole day.

Swallowing pills. A friend pointed out that tilting your head down helps with swallowing and I had never thought about it before. It really does make it easier!

Walking in general. Physical therapy both sucks super hard and is vastly improving my life. I've had a decades long back injury caused by a dog attack, but I've apparently been walking in a way that guards a wound not entirely there.

Thank you PT.

FUCK you PT.

Tying my shoes wrong my entire life.

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm

Cleaning cast iron. I used to add water cold and bring to a boil. Now I heat first until grease is almost smoking, then add a bit of water and let it steam and sputter itself clean.