TIL the design of the guillotine was intended to make capital punishment more reliable and less painful in accordance with new Enlightenment ideas of human rights. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL: Wikipedia.org has over 6.7 million English articles, and close to 60 million total wiki pages (en.wikipedia.org)
NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁 (en.wikipedia.org)
Happy 30th Birthday “New Technology” File System! Thanks for 30 years of demonstrating Linux superiority with a gap that widens with every new kernel release 👍
The End of AppleTalk - August 28th, 2009 (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that the BBC had no archival policy until 1978, and many of its old broadcasts were only aired live. A number of BBC broadcasts are lost, including a show featuring a then-unknown Bob Dylan; 97... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL there was a briefly popular social movement in the early 1930s called the "Technocracy Movement." Technocrats proposed replacing politicians and businessmen with scientists and engineers who ha... (en.wikipedia.org)
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Wikipedia Admin Unmasks As Alt Account Of Admin Who Was Extremely Banned In 2015 To The Great Bewilderment Of Everyone (en.wikipedia.org)
What?????? What the hell??? — arbitrator Moneytrees, arbitration request for Lourdes...
TIl Rick James’ cameo in chappelle’s show was so successful it caused him to return to touring and performing. He died a few months into the tour. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that because of the amount of time it saves, the washing machine has been called "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.” Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberat... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that approximately 70% of the world’s vegetarians live in India. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that, unless it contains alcohol, kosher food is generally halal. However, halal food is not generally kosher; halal allows shellfish, camels, rabbits, and the mixing of meat and dairy, all of ... (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL of Taos Pueblo, a Native American 'Pueblo' built between 1000CE and 1450CE, containing some of the oldest continuously inhabited houses still occupied in the US (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL before CT and MRI’s were available, doctors used to replace the fluid in and around the brain with air to do imaging with X-rays. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Microsoft's Patch Tuesday is 20 years old (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL India still officially recognises 5 sub-national monarchies, known as the 'Kings of Dangs'. They receive payment from the government every year during Holi (en.wikipedia.org)
As per the treaty signed in 1842 the British were allowed to use the forests and their natural products against which they had to pay around 3,000 silver coins to the five kings. Currently the kings receive a monthly political pension by the Government of India, which is the main source of their income. This payment is continued...
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TIL that the words "lesbian" and "sapphic" both come from this legendary woman named Sappho who lived on the island of Lesbos (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that following the Roman departure from Britain (410 CE), systematic construction of paved highways in the UK did not resume until the early 18th century (en.wikipedia.org)
After the Romans departed, systematic construction of paved highways in the United Kingdom did not resume until the early 18th century. The Roman road network remained the only nationally managed highway system within Britain until the establishment of the Ministry of Transport in the early 20th century.
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TIL of anchorites, medieval Christian ascetics who were walled into a cell ("anchorhold") attached to a church for their entire adult lives. Through small windows, they received sustenance, dispose... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL about 'Growing the beard' (en.wikipedia.org)
“Growing the beard” refers to the opposite of jumping the shark; i.e. when a show dramatically improves in quality. In the series Star Trek: The Next Generation the second season is considered to be better in terms of storytelling over the first season. This shift coincided with character William Riker, who was clean-shaven...
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How would you expain the idea of social status to a child? (en.wikipedia.org)
Social status (in my own words) is the idea that a person has a relative social worth in a certain context. For example in a class room a teacher has a high social status and therefore must be listened to. On the other hand, if that same teacher was stopped by the police for speeding, they would not have a relatively low status...
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NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁 (en.wikipedia.org)
As a full time desktop Linux user since 1999 (the actual year of the Linux desktop) I wish all you Windows folks the best of luck on the next clean install 👍...
TIL of Mustatils; over 1000 walled courtyards spanning hundreds of meters were built at least 7000 years ago. Their function in unknown. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL about the 1988 Camelford water pollution incident, the worst mass poisoning in British history (en.wikipedia.org)
tl;dr, water treatment authorities accidentally dumped a bunch of aluminum in the water, but told all their customers it was safe to drink before they knew what it was, but scientists and doctors are apparently still arguing over what effects aluminum exposure can have (see: “Aluminum and Alzheimer’s disease: after a century...