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.
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....
TIL Reno became known as the “Divorce Capital of the World.” (99percentinvisible.org)
For much of modern history, it has been relatively easy to get married, and extremely difficult to get divorced...
TIL Bob Barker was an enrolled member of the Sioux Tribe and grew up on a reservation in South Dakota (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL the earliest recorded use of the @ symbol was from a religious text from 1345 (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL how Carroll O'Connor became Archie Bunker (en.wikipedia.org)
The character Archie Bunker in All In The Family was originally offered to Mickey Rooney, who declined. Carroll O'Connor lived in Europe, and accepted the role only because he thought the show would fail and he could go home, so much so that part of his contract with Norman Lear included a return plane ticket to Rome so that he...
TIL that the only part of the UK that officially speaks English is Northern Ireland. (populationdata.org.uk)
Surprisingly, there is no law declaring English the official language of the UK....
TIL that the album "Songs for the Deaf" by Queens of the Stone Age has a hidden track before Track #1 (en.m.wikipedia.org)
TIL that salt rock, the stuff used during winter, helped contribute to the Flint Water Crisis (www.theverge.com)
Road salt on the city’s bridges raised the river’s chlorine levels, making the water more corrosive. This has continued into the present and may have been one reason poorly-treated Flint River water was so damaging to metal pipes....
TIL: If I'm in a driver I need to stop for pedestrians at crossovers, even if the lights aren’t flashing. (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Link with no paywall:...
TIL Children as young as eight can and have been put on the sex offender registry, which lasts the rest of their lives. (jlc.org)
For cities of 1 millon up, Chicago is the most violent in USA (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Chicago vs. worst ranking, based on...
TIL Stonehenge has been 'restored' at least 3 times, and may not be in it's original position due to stone removal and replacement. (odysee.com)
Found as one of the top recommended videos on Odyssey.com
TIL of a strange coincidence between an episode of Seinfeld and the OJ Simpson muders. (www.imdb.com)
Senfeld S5E9: Because Elaine is dating a man with the same name as New York serial killer Joel Rifkin, she wants him to change his name to a less embarrassing one and suggests O.J.; about six months after this episode aired, O.J. Simpson was arrested and charged with the murder of his ex-wife and her friend.