TIL Catherine Dior, youngest sister of Christian Dior, was in the French resistance in WW2. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, she was tortured and sent to both Ravensbruck and Buchenwald concentrati... (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL: Harley Davidson licensed its motorcycles to Rikuo Internal Combustion Company in Japan (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL: Harley Davidson licensed its motorcycles to Rikuo Internal Combustion Company in Japan, starting in the 1920s and continuing until Rikuo stopped production in 1959, including during World War 2
TIL: Tommy Thompson was an American treasure hunter who successfully found millions of dollars worth of gold coins from the SS Central America. However, he went on the run due to refusing to pay of... (en.wikipedia.org)
Interstate 60 - 2002 (en.wikipedia.org)
A great romp with a bunch of fun cameos, a feel good movie with hope about the future. I enjoyed some of the dry comedy scenarios. I recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys a bit of thoughtful comedy.
**TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM** Discussion Megapost 2023-08-02 🐢🥷 (en.wikipedia.org)
TitleTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant MayhemMPAA Rating:PGRuntime01:39:00Release Date (USA):August 2, 2023Director:Jeff Rowe, Kyler SpearsMain Cast:Natasia Demetriou, Ayo Edebiri, Rose Byrne, Jackie Chan, John Cena, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Giancarlo Esposito**Summary:**After years of being sheltered from the human world, the...
TIL of Naba Baongo II, a sub-national monarch in Burkina Faso. In 2015, he played a key role in ending a military coup in the country peacefully, without any bloodshed. His kingdom is 528+ years old (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL Upon the death of the Dalai Lama, a search for his reincarnation is conducted where a child is identified through a series of 'tests' before being recognized as the succeeding Dalai Lama. The c... (en.wikipedia.org)
On the Beach 1959 (en.wikipedia.org)
A really interesting film about people coping with the end of the world. Slow paced compared to modern films, it delivers its message slowly, easing up to major changes. A fairly good narrative, and I enjoyed watching it. It had impact, at least with me)
Duty After School 2023 Discussion (en.wikipedia.org)
A feel good(?maybe) end of the world story where we are saved by high school seniors....
TIL the number of continents varies and do not follow a strict criteria (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL of Cáin Adomnáin, "Europes first human rights treaty". Created in 697 CE, were a set of laws - which kings across Ireland & Scotland agreed to follow - guaranteeing safety of non-combatants in war (en.wikipedia.org)
The Cáin Adomnáin, also known as the Lex Innocentium (Law of Innocents), was promulgated amongst a gathering of Irish, Dál Riatan and Pictish notables at the Synod of Birr in 697. It is called the “Geneva Accords” of the ancient Irish and Europe’s first human rights treaty, for its protection of women and...
TIL Ludwig van Beethoven didn't get along with his brother Johann and was heavily opposed to his marriage to a housekeeper. After the purchase of an estate, Johann signed a letter to Ludwig "From y... (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL During the shooting event of the 1965 World Pentathlon Championships, Herbert Polzhuber drank 10 glasses of beer and a bottle of cognac, stepped onto the shooting platform, shot all his bullets... (en.wikipedia.org)
Following Red Hat's lead, Linus Torvalds will only publish Linux Kernel code to paid contributors (en.wikipedia.org)
At Linux, thousands of people spend their time writing code to enable new features, fixing bugs, integrating different packages and then supporting that work for a long time - something that our customers and partners need....
TIL the co-founder of Encyclopædia Britannica was a 4'6" tall Scot with crooked legs and an enormous nose that he would sometimes augment with a papier-mache version. He deliberately rode the talle... (en.wikipedia.org)
John David McAfee, author of the first commercial anti-virus software, was born on Sept 18th 1945 (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL CJK compatibilty ideographs (often used to put a lot of symbols in fonts such as 着 which displays as the Wii logo on my machine) were originally allocated to support older standards for storing Chinese characters and derivatives in code points (en.wikipedia.org)
Sorry for the confusing title. Basically before Unicode, a bunch of different standards for storing Chinese characters (also used in Korean and Japanese which also have some of their own derivatives) emerged. When Unicode sought to unify every standard they of course had to add compatibility for older standards so for all the...
**HAUNTED MANSION Discussion Megapost** 2023-07-28 🏰👻 (en.wikipedia.org)
TitleHaunted MansionMPAA Rating:PG-13Runtime02:02:00Release Date (USA):July 28, 2023Director:Justin SimienMain Cast:LaKeith Stanfield, Rosario Dawson, Owen Wilson, Tiffany Haddish, Danny DeVito, Jamie Lee Curtis, Chase Dillon, Jared Leto**Summary:**A single mother and her son move into a mansion, only to find that it is haunted....
TIL in 1969, concert promoter Bill Graham was asked to help organize the Woodstock Festival. He agreed under one condition: that Santana would be included in the lineup. After Bill persisted, Santa... (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL of the Kingdom of Bailundo, a non-sovereign monarchy located in Angola. Its king was notably deposed in 2021 after being charged of involvement in a murder (en.wikipedia.org)
Ekuikui V sometimes dubbed himself as the “king of (all) Ovimbundu”. In early 2021, Ekuikui V was sentenced to six years in prison by the Provincial Court of Huambo (TPH) for his implication in a murder in 2017. Ekuikui V had issued a judgment in a traditional court case, finding Jacinto Kamutali Epalangana guilty of killing...
Hook an old FPS gamer up. Anyone else fondly miss "assassin mode" from Soldier of Fortune (2000)? (en.wikipedia.org)
I have never played another FPS that had a mode like this, and it was so damn fun and self-balancing....