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This is stupid, but I could never really picture celery growing out of the ground, and I had never seen it. I have seen tons of different vegetables growing in people's gardens, but not celery. So I looked up a picture of it, and yeah...it looks pretty much how you would expect. I hate celery so much.

Coincidentally, at the same time, I learned that Brussels sprouts grown on these crazy tree things that are like 3 or 4 feet tall. What?! I did not know that. I thought they just popped out of the ground like tiny, tiny cabbages. You can go here to see pictures of a bunch of different vegetables, including celery and Brussels sprouts, growing in this dude's garden.

I learned some of the features of the geotagged photos on Flickr, just by playing with them. It's fun to see what pictures other people have taken of stuff right around where you live that you see every day. I spend way too much time on Flickr.

Finally, I learned that the big thrift store down at Cleveland and 161 sells suits and even tuxedo jackets. I don't know why that is surprising to me; I know that most thrift stores sell women's stuff like prom dresses, but I guess I had never seen full suits or thought that anyone would buy a tuxedo and then just donate it to the thrift store.

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Today I learned about a store called Muji. It's everywhere in Japan, and has stores in Europe, but is just now planning to open 2 stores in the US (in NY). It sounds sort of like Ikea in that it's supposed to be nice, well-designed stuff at a low price, but their big thing is that everything is as simple and neutral as possible. This article gives an example of a typical cutting board with a handle and a groove around it vs a Muji cutting board which would just be a block of wood. It seems like they sell everything from clothes to furniture to housewares. It sounds interesting.

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Today I learned that the IKEA down near Cincinnati will be opening in spring of '08. Eeeeee! Look out, bank account; this is not going to be pretty. (But the furniture will be pretty. So, sooo pretty.)

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Today I learned about Eskimo kisses. Apparently Inuit people actually do/did this. It was just a greeting that was used because most skin was covered except for the nose and eyes. There are...a lot of people out there who I wouldn't want to rub noses with.

I also learned that basically all the stores at Easton close at 6 on Memorial Day (not Macy's!), which is dumb. I thought that Memorial Day was like a big shopping type holiday. There are always Memorial Day sales and everything. But everything was closed, and I didn't even see anything about it on their holiday hours section of the web site, even though I looked yesterday. Yet again I am foiled in my attempts to eat my weight in Cheryl's frosted triple chocolate cookies.