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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 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 North Koreans cannot go to Japan (en.wikipedia.org)

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.

TIL almost all vanilla plants are pollinated by hand. (en.wikipedia.org)

I was reading about Edmond Albius, the former slave who learned how to pollinate the vanilla plant (at age 12!), which is why we have commercial vanilla today....

TIL that a short film named "100 Years" starring John Malkovich was shot in 2015, destined to be released in the year 2115 (en.wikipedia.org)

100 Years is apparently a short film. Rodriguez stated in a 2019 interview:...

TIL about Swatch Internet Time, a decimal time system that has no time zones. (en.wikipedia.org)

I feel that this is what we should be using instead of the current illogical time system.

TIL Joseph Stalin was struck by a sport carriage and severely injured at age 12, which a certain source cited by the Simple English Wikipedia took as his father dying in a drunken brawl (en.wikipedia.org)

The incorrect book. Note that his father only died in 1909 of liver issues. Jughashvili was upset when he learned that Keke had enrolled Ioseb in school, instead hoping his son would follow his path and become a cobbler. This led to a major incident in January 1890. Ioseb had been struck by a phaeton, severely injuring him....

TIL Cass Elliot died in Harry Nilsson's apartment, and four years later Keith Moon died in the same room (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL the USA is the only country to not have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (en.wikipedia.org)

100 years ago, Vladimir Lenin died (en.wikipedia.org)

100 years ago, Vladimir Lenin died (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL a Canadian from Greece took an American version of an Italian dish and added tropical fruit to it and called it a Hawaiian pizza. (en.wikipedia.org)

The history of the term Generation X is complicated and confusing. Boomers were the original Generation X. (en.wikipedia.org)

The term Generation X has been used at various times to describe alienated youth. In the early 1950s, Hungarian photographer Robert Capa first used Generation X as the title for a photo-essay about young men and women growing up immediately following World War II. The term first appeared in print in a December 1952 issue of...

TIL that Gavrilo Princip, who assassinated Franz Ferdinand, died of Tuberculosis three years and ten months after the assassination. (en.wikipedia.org)

Princip was nineteen years old at the time and too young to be executed, as he was twenty-seven days shy of the twenty-year minimum age limit required by Habsburg law.[43] On Thursday 28 October 1914 the court found Princip guilty of murder and high treason, he received the maximum sentence of twenty years in prison...