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TIL How we plan nuclear waste warning to last 100,000 years (www.euronews.com)

TIL that the logo for CNN Arabic uses the CNN logo as part of the Arabic for "in Arabic" (بالعربية). (sopuli.xyz)

TIL about Salim Kara, who stole over $2m of coins by using a car antenna and a magnet (www.nofreelunch.co.uk)

TIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows why (www.bbc.com)

TIL about Babylonian astronomy - Wikipedia (en.m.wikipedia.org)

TIL: You can pin items in Androids share tray. (lemmy.world)

This I actually learned today from another user’s pain post about Android 14....

TIL that bats like these exist IRL (Painted Wooly Bat, projapoti badur) (static.nationalgeographic.co.uk)

It looks like a cheap, fuzzy Halloween decoration in the most cheesy way possible, as if someone took the model of a regular boring black bat and recolored it in the “classic” Halloween color scheme to make it look “spooky”. If I’d encounter such a creature in a videogame or movie, I’d laugh at the absurdity. It...

TIL "npm" officially stands for "npm is not an acronym" (twitter.com)

Why not "NINAA"? Because then it would be an acronym.

TIL Happy Holidays literally means Happy Holy Day (en.m.wikipedia.org)

Happy Holidays to you all! Get bent, FOX news. Let everyone celebrate the season. Now, I am off to prepare for Festivus at my house.

TIL that in a few areas of battle in WWI, the 1914 Christmas Truce lasted all the way until New Year's (www.bbc.com)

The following Christmas, machine gun barrages were deliberately timed to drown out any sound of carol singing to prevent spontaneous truces happening again.

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TIL Einstein compared Israel to Nazis in 1948 (NYT) (monyet.cc)

This letter was written to the Editors of the New York Times Dec. 2, 1948 – several months after the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel....

TIL John Lennon made a song "Working Class Hero" that was intended to jolt the system (www.youtube.com)

I was reading this article from 1970 and he’s obviously a complicated dude: archive.is/POtvB...

TIL that Maya Rudolph's mom is this lady and the song 'Lovin' You' is for Maya. She says Maya at the end over and over. (www.youtube.com)

I was listening to Emma Stone on Smartless trying to figure out how to explain who she is and don’t ask me how it lead down this insane path.

TIL: A South Korean software engineer commemorated a headstone for Internet Explorer which read "He was a good tool to download other browsers" (www.reuters.com)

The colour of the Sun is white (www.wtamu.edu)

The sun is not yellow or orange as we see in books and movies. It emits all the colours in the visible spectrum (also in other spectrums as well) making it white!

TIL about Global Anti-Scam Alliance (www.gasa.org)

TIL about Hallstatt mine; the oldest mine in the world (www.google.com)

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/42d72783-7b6f-4bc6-9562-f171634bfb93.webp

TIL Orange Juice is transported pasteurized in tanker ships (www.theshipyardblog.com)

Wonder what kind of environmental damage would happen if one crashed. Are they properly prepared for a captain having one too many screwdrivers?

TIL in 1893, the US Supreme Court held 9–0 that the tomato should be classified as a vegetable rather than a fruit in Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304, for purposes (en.wikipedia.org)

of tariffs, imports and customs. Justice Horace Gray delivered the opinion of the Court in holding that the Tariff Act of 1883 used the ordinary meaning of the words "fruit" and "vegetable", instead of the technical botanical meaning....

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