TIL George V Went Out Like John Belushi (www.youtube.com)
Have been on a QI binge lately, so I’ve been learning all sorts of random stuff. Here’s today’s:...
TIL ~62% of the atoms in a human body are Hydrogen, and are as old as the universe. (en.wikipedia.org)
About the successor of Virtual RMS (lemmy.ml)
Thanks to this comment : lemmy.ml/comment/10591882
TIL about blindsight, a phenomenon by which visually blind people can apparently see or detect objects without using their visual cortex (en.m.wikipedia.org)
It was a footnote in an article I read about a monkey using blindsight and that there had been several experiments with humans proving blindsight existed and that surprised me. As a footnote....
TIL the USA has "national emergencies" still ongoing that date back to 1979 (en.m.wikipedia.org)
TIL about raisin juice concentrate - some truly Goldbergian food science (www.delightedcooking.com)
Staples plan is to recycle nearly everything — and pay their customers for it (www.thecooldown.com)
Check out the full list of what staples accepts now part of their expanded recycling programs....
TIL the U.S. Civil War is called "The Slave War" in Icelandic (lemmy.world)
TIL that 'Rocky' (1976) was inspired by the true story of Chuck Wepner, a local boxer from New Jersey who was set up for a dream fight with Muhammad Ali. Wepner quit his job to train full time. (www.biography.com)
cross-posted from: lemmit.online/post/2699121...
TIL that quadruple A batteries exist (lemmy.world)
What device even uses this??
TIL that Telefonicá sells 'anonymous' location data of their clients. (www.heise.de)
TL;DR Some cellular cetwork providers triangulate your location and sell it to god knows who. And since real anonymous data is a lie, those who buy that data probably can tell who and where you are. Check if you can opt-out....
TIL the Flag Famously Raised at Iwo Jima Was Raised Because a Commander Thought the First One Wasn’t Big Enough (lemmy.world)
The first flag was 54-by-28-inch vs the second being 96-by-56–inch....
TIL that up to 3.7% of pregnancies have misattributed paternity where the child (and possibly the mother) thought the father was someone else (www.newyorker.com)
TIL: You can easily check eggs for being bad or fresh (slrpnk.net)
TIL: Eating pine nuts can occasionally cause some people to experience a bitter or metallic taste lasting from a few days up to 2 weeks (www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au)
The symptoms normally disappear after several days and there are no adverse health effects....
TIL the dev of Iron Lung, an acclaimed indie horror game, faced significant backlash over increasing the price from $6 to $8 (www.ign.com)
Then, responding to those who have said he’s “only doing this for the money", Szymanski tweeted: “Yes, no fucking shit. I make games for a living. If I didn't want to earn money from them I wouldn't charge money for them.”...
Australians are 10x more likely to develop skin cancer than the average person
www.wcrf.org/…/skin-cancer-statistics/
TIL that Wyoming is larger than the United Kingdom in area but less populous than Glasgow
Wyoming Area: 253,335 km2...
TIL there was an unreleased comic book in which Marvel superhero Captain Britain would resolve The Troubles by having everyone drink "magic civilizing tea" (www.eruditorumpress.com)
TIL about the Crackpot Index, a humorous post for people who claim to have disproved Einstein's theory (math.ucr.edu)
A scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory replied to my email with a curt, please don’t waste my time again. The head of the Physics Department at the University of Miami dropped Bob’s research paper like it was radioactive. He receives one of these papers each week, he said. It turns out, there is a whole community...
TIL in 1995 NASA tested psychoactive compounds on spiders. Each drug affected their web patterns differently. (lemmy.world)
Here’s a more detailed description for those that like to read up: rarehistoricalphotos.com/nasa-spiders-drugs-exper…...
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: You can enter into Immersive Reader mode in (Microsoft) Edge to reduce the number of things and CSS displayed on the screen. Great for when you need to study. (support.microsoft.com)
I found mine at the right end of the URL bar....
TIL DuoLingo offers language courses for Klingon and High Valyrian (lemmy.world)
tlhIngan Hol vIghojtaH!
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)
