Happy Birthday James Clerk Maxwell! (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL: There is a species of penguin that lives in the southern point of Africa. (African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), also known as Cape penguin or South African penguin.) (en.wikipedia.org)
What's your take on Cassavetes? (en.wikipedia.org)
Alcoholic? Messiah?
TIL that in 2014, a photographer tried to copyright a monkey's selfie and sue Wikipedia for it. (en.wikipedia.org)
The EFF soon created a crossword, overlaid it on top of the monkey, and featured it on their website....
TIL: Gamergate's have interesting hierarchy and can replace the queen (en.wikipedia.org)
I just realised that this is not a painting by René Magritte (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL one of the oldest TV shows was simply called "Sea Stories" on the BBC, featuring Royal Navy Commander A.B. Campbell describing the personalities and places he had seen. No known footage exists. (en.wikipedia.org)
aired from 1936-1937. if anyone has a copy pls lemme know
Paul austere died yesterday at the age of 77 (en.wikipedia.org)
His notable works include The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), The Brooklyn Follies (2005), Invisible (2009), Sunset Park (2010), Winter Journal (2012), and 4 3 2 1 (2017). His books have been translated into more than forty languages.[1]
TIL ~62% of the atoms in a human body are Hydrogen, and are as old as the universe. (en.wikipedia.org)
The Bony-Eared Assfish Has No Goals (en.wikipedia.org)
“The bony-eared assfish may have the smallest brain-to-body weight ratio of any vertebrate”...
Can I detect my SO's presence just by smell / pheromone ? (en.wikipedia.org)
Scenario : I am in a crowd. My eyes are closed and not allowed to touch anything....
Does the fediverse have defense against watering hole attacks? (en.wikipedia.org)
With so many variations of Lemmy and fediverse instances, are there any defenses against a malicious server running altered code? Is there a way to prove what code is supposed to be running on each instance?
The Wiki's plot summary for "A Void", a book that (usually) omits a symbol vital to our vocabulary, also avoids that symbol (en.wikipedia.org)
I do not support just calling that wiki "wiki" without including a crucial part of it.
TIL about exploding head syndrome, which causes patients to hear a loud, frightening noise when falling asleep or waking up. Up to 10% of people may have it, but cases often go undiagnosed (en.wikipedia.org)
cross-posted from: lemmit.online/post/2659121
XZ Utils backdoor - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL there is no original TI-84 as the TI-84 Plus was an upgrade (like iPhone 14 to 13) to the TI-83 Plus (en.wikipedia.org)
And yes, TI calculators have indeed been improving, apparently....
TIL about "Swill milk" where cows were fed distillery waste causing cow teeth rot and disease. It was also adulterated with raw eggs, burn sugar, etc. Swill milk lead to over 8,000 infant's deaths (en.wikipedia.org)
Launched on 25 March 1995, The WikiWikiWeb is the first wiki, or user-editable website. (en.wikipedia.org)
Lloyds Bank coprolite is the largest palaeofaeces yet discovered (en.wikipedia.org)
via mander.xyz/post/11031039
TIL Nokia has owned Bell Labs since 2016, and still does a lot of Telecom stuff (en.wikipedia.org)
The Nokia logo was also redesigned last year to represent a pivot away from making smartphones. Nokia acquired Bell Labs in 2016 as part of its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent.
TIL North Koreans cannot go to Japan (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL abou the Amalgam Comics, a joint publication by DC & Marvel featuring characters that were a mix of those from both universes (en.wikipedia.org)
About the comics: antifandom.com/marvel/wiki/Amalgam_Comics...
TIL about the concept of Weaponized Incompetence, which probably explains every issue you ever faced in a bureaucracy (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that the white stuff that sometimes appears on chocolate is called "chocolate bloom". (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL: There is a sculpture with four cryptic passages in it that stands outside the CIA's George Bush Center for Intelligence in Virginia (en.wikipedia.org)
3 out of the 4 passages have solutions to date.
