I Later Learned...

On November 28, 2023, Day 9 of Season 99 of LearnedLeague, we learned of “a musical instrument that is the lowest-pitched of the woodwinds, and produces the lowest sounds in a standard symphony orchestra.” 

I Later Learned that though the contrabassoon or double bassoon is as low as a woodwind can go, other instruments out there can go even lower.

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On November 27, 2023, Day 8 of Season 99 of LearnedLeague, we learned of a cereal that was "kid tested, mother approved." 

I Later Learned of the decades-long path Kix took toward discovering a winning sales pitch, finding atomic bombs, beavers, and pugilistic cows along the way on its surprisingly gendered journey.

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On November 21, 2023, Day 7 of Season 99 of LearnedLeague, we learned  that “Horsepower, as a term used to measure the power of engines, was coined by” an 18th-century Scottish inventor.”

I Later Learned that even though James Watt became the namesake of a much more commonly used metric for powerful machines and engines, horses still have the power in certain parts of modern industry.

On November 20, 2023, Day 6 of Season 99 of LearnedLeague, we learned of “a yet-to-be-completed bridge known during its early development as the Detroit River International Crossing, which should become the longest cable-stayed bridge in North America upon its completion.”

I Later Learned how the Gordie Howe Bridge is set to overcome the trolls to complete a hat trick of its own.

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On November 17, 2023, Day 5 of Season 99 of LearnedLeague, we were tasked, like millions before us, with finding a “distinctive bespectacled literary character and world traveler” who first appeared in print 1987.

I Later Learned why the American and British names were accepted for this question, and why they're different at all. This guy is already so famously difficult to locate, so why the added trouble of adding two different names to the challenge of figuring out Where’s Waldo and Where’s Wally?

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On November 16, 2023, Day 4 of Season 99 of LearnedLeague, we learned what you get when you load sixteen tons.

I Later Learned of the vast trove of music in them thar hills, because folks have sung about mining a whole lot, even if all that you get is another day older and deeper in debt.

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On November 15, 2023, Day 3 of Season 99 of LearnedLeague, we learned of “a territory in the South Pacific Ocean named after most of the land area that is now the country of Scotland.”

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On November 14, 2023, Day 2 of Season 99 of LearnedLeague, we learned of a German Shepherd with a “name that might suggest he is a member of a local sports team” close to the White House.

I later learned about the name Commander, shared between a dog with a lot of bite and a football team without much of any, and how they came to share this misapplied mock-military moniker.

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On Day 1 of Season 99 of LearnedLeague, we learned of an “ultramarine performance art ensemble which has been resident off-Broadway in New York since 1991.”

I Later Learned more about ultramarine, the very blue blue in the clue, and how it gets on the very blue faces of the Blue Man Group.

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Welcome to I Later Learned, a short daily show diving into something I Later Learned after playing LearnedLeague each day.

Before LL Season 99 begins, and ILL Season 1 along with it, here's a pilot episode I recorded as a test a while back about Season 81, Day 1. This should hopefully give you a dash of the flavor I'm hoping to cook up on this show going forward.