Things you learn from Watching TV (light hearted)

I love interesting documentaries on a variety of topics. Architecture, history. art and nature mostly.

Who knew Bower birds were so brilliant!

There are two things I call a whirligig; a wooden wind thing that spins and changes directions with the wind the other is a colourful plastic windmill like you would find for a child at a carnival.

This is a whirligig my DH recently made, fascinating to watch.

I've learnt a lot from watching Springwatch the last couple of weeks. I just wish that I could retain the information! The presenters are so knowledgeable and I thought the feature on whirligig beetles was brilliant! 🪲 I also manage to learn quite a few facts from quiz shows like the Chase, which comes in useful fir pub quizzes!

I have never enjoyed history but learnt so much from watching the series Versailles many years ago. I really enjoy war films based on real life.

62Granny

Just watching Spring Watch (Tues), I never realised a whirligig was actually a real thing, I always thought it was an old fashioned word for a fairground ride.
Anybody else learnt something from the TV.

We call rotary dryers, whirligigs here. I have never heard it called anything else, well apart from the shortened version, whirlie, which is the usual term.

History programs are amazing. We’ve been watching one about evolution, from millions of years ago. So many different creatures besides the dinosaurs in the years up to the arrival of the most dangerous predator in history.
I like history programs about the American Civil War too.
The most useful thing I learnt from watching TV was how to remove my gloves properly. But I learnt that on The Sullivans, a different sort of history.

Try Engineering Catastrophes - think it is Nat Geo - watched an episode about Space exploration, didn't realise so many astronauts had died.