I am attending Uni this week as part of my part time MSc.

I've learnt recently of the current courting going on between...

David Mitchell and Victoria Coren - Sarcasm Squared

and here in Ireland...

David O'Doherty and (The Lovely) Lisa Hannigan - Two of the nicest people on the planet it would appear. Never heard a bad word about either of them and both well worth catching live.

and an odder one...

Michael Smiley (Tyres from Spaced, quality stand-up and more recently actor in some heavy end movies Kill List and Outpost) is married to well-known journalist Miranda Sawyer.

Brook Benton's version of Rainy Night in Georgia is bloody marvellous.

that The actor who played Robin's brother in "Man about the House" was the same actor who played "Tristan" the neighbour in "George and Mildred".
Did Thames TV think they'd get away with this ? and how daft were the Ropers not to notice this.
And in more MATH trivia.
Sally Thomsett who played an 11 year old in "the Railway Children" was 2 years older than Jenny Agutter who played her older sister.
also Sally James was in "the Railway Children".

Hobo is a shortened version of Homeward Bound.
Apparently.

Her famous quote "The lady's not for turning".

Today I found out it's actually a pun on the title of a 1948 play by Christopher Fry The Lady's Not for BURNING (my caps).

I never knew that until I read about the Fry play in the Kenneth Williams Diaries yesterday.

And, as a footnote to the OP, one of the sax players on the Lord Rockingham's XI single Hoots Mon was Benny Green who later became known for his writing (Punch etc) and appearances on several BBC radio panel shows. He was quite a fascinating character.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Green_(saxophonist)

is apparently a bad thing.

Well, I was ******* gobsmacked.

...was on the train derailed in the Hither Green rail crash in which 49 people died. It was on the same day that Massachusetts went to number one, the Bee Gees' first.

I've learnt precisely nothing *today*, other than what I've read on this website.

Recently? I've learnt that it's a lot of fun to sing "Moon River" badly with friends after too much wine. That I love dancing to klezmer bands (*especially* when they do the "Hava Nagila"), and that REM's cover version of "King Of The Road" is one of the worst atrocities ever committed to record.

Slightly less recently, I've learned that Hannah (of this parish) is the proud possessor of an alomost ridiculous level of kindness. Publicly, thanks Hannah.

I learnt that carrying a floppy and silently delirious seven year old into a doctor's surgery is a sure-fire way to get a whole row of seats to yourself.
And that the NHS is completely and utterly amazing.
(He's on the mend now).

and it’s making my head hurt

...you can't really run a news service and take part in a chat forum at the same time. The Warsaw stock-market closing report is now 10 minutes late. For those interested, the WIG20 is down 1.9%.

I was listening this very excellent song by Taj Mahal (a version of which also featured in the Blue Brothers movie).

"She caught the Katy, left me a mule to ride"

It occurred to me I had no idea what the song was about.

I learnt that the K-T is/was the Kansas to Texas railroad.

If a pupil leaves a carton of milk in a locker for so long that it swells up and finally explodes, the smell can make you gag a corridor away.

Apparently there was some packaged ham that was swollen like a balloon in there too. Luckily the caretaker managed to defuse that one.

Bless 'em.

...that the former next-door neighbour of my dad and my late mum has died in his early 60's. He falsely accused my brother-in-law of assault leading to a court case that accelerated the death of my already ill mother, almost caused the end of my sister's marriage and was responsible for an enormous amount of upset, grief and recrimination within my family at an already difficult time.

I've never been one to wish death on anyone, I violently oppose capital punishment in any circumstances, but I am glad this man has died. I have similar feelings about Thatcher, I don't wish her dead, but I'll be glad when she does die.

Does this make me a bad person?

11+2=12+1, and 'eleven plus two' is an anagram of 'twelve plus one'

apparently. A lovely science bloke told me that.

like I do, staff enter through secure gates comprised of sealed glass pods. You step in, it seals it self, and then opens on the other side to let you in to the building.

I learnt that not very many civil servants have seen Spinal Tap and my ludicrous daily Derek Smalls trapped in-a-pod gag goes unrecognised.

Curt Kobain's great-grandfather invented the pink cleaning agent that is commonly used in Brillo Pads.

'Never give up on a good thing.'

I learned today that the after effects of eating these the night before are powerful, pungent and sustained.

all go back to the days of parchment (i.e. sheepskin).

A folio was generally the biggest paper size you could get out of a whole sheep; smaller paper sizes – tabloid, quarto and so on – are all subdivisions.

Lord Rockingham's XI really was 11 people - it's kind of obvious, but I've never searched for a picture of them so had always imagined it was a slight exaggeration.

The cost of the World Cup site in Qatar is more than the entire Apollo project or Shuttle programme. And much more here:

http://xkcd.com/980/huge/#x=-11570&y=-2966&z=5