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TIL that the judge in the Carroll rape case clarified that Trump did rape Jean Carroll (www.washingtonpost.com)

All the news headlines and verdict said sexual abuse, which was kind of vague, but I just found out today that the judge clarified that this was a matter of legal definition and by the verdict of the trial and the case, trump has been found guilty of penetrative rape.

TIL some species of ants farm aphids like we do cows (www.mcgill.ca)

Link: www.westcoastseeds.com/…/do-ants-farm-aphids....

TIL ants that farm aphids influence the aphids’ genes in a similar way that we do with cows. Aphid-farming ants prefer and select for red/green polymorphism. (www.nature.com)

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TIL: There is a community on Lemmy where people share Weird and Oddly Specific (music) Playlists (lemmy.world)

TIL about Halal Ribfest (barbecue/food that's permitted by a Muslim diet) and they go on tour. (www.halalribfest.com)

TIL - J and J knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder and failed to disclose it to regulators or the public. (www.reuters.com)

TIL the only guy in ZZ Top without a giant beard is named Frank Beard. (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL fermilab had a ferret to find obstructions in their particle accelerator in the 1960s (news.fnal.gov)

TIL Boeing, NASA, and United Airlines test sustainable aviation fuel (innovationorigins.com)

TIL - Bulgaria , over the past 35 years, has seen the fastest decline in population of any country in the world — a 28 percent drop (e360.yale.edu)

TIL about Hector the Convector a thunderstorm and cloud system that forms nearly every afternoon from September to March in the Northern Territory of Australia (en.wikipedia.org)

Named by pilots during the Second World War, the recurring position of the thunderstorm made it a navigational beacon for pilots and mariners in the region. A mesoscale phenomenon, Hector is caused primarily by a collision of several sea breeze boundaries across the Tiwi Islands and is known for its consistency and intensity....

Great story about a small Danish town that helped rescue Jews during World War Two (www.bbc.com)

TIL - After World War II, thousands of Nazis fled to South America along so-called ratlines — often with the help of Catholic clergy (www.dw.com)

Study finds SARS-CoV-2-associated sepsis was more common, deadly than previously thought (medicalxpress.com)

TIL past psilocybin use is strongly associated with working less overtime hours (www.tandfonline.com)

TIL: In the song DARE it's "you've got to press it on you" rather than "you've got depression on you" (genius.com)

TIL that in the US, liberal adolescents are much more likely to experience depression than their conservative counterparts. This divergence in depression rates only started recently and is growing (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

TIL in Australia the name of the band "AC/DC" is pronounced "Acca Dacca" (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL: Wikipedia.org has over 6.7 million English articles, and close to 60 million total wiki pages (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL of the Mobile phone throwing competition that originated in Finland (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL Why giraffes have patches (pursuit.unimelb.edu.au)

TIL The first recorded human death by robot was in 1979 when 25-year-old Ford Motor assembly line worker Robert William was struck by an arm of a malfunctioning one-ton robot (www.wikiwand.com)

Williams was one of three operators of the parts retrieval system, a five-story robot built by the Unit Handling Systems division of Litton Industries. The robot was designed to retrieve castings from high density storage shelves at the Flat Rock plant. Part of the machine included one-ton transfer vehicles, which were carts on...

TIL researchers reviewed 40 episodes of the "Dr. Oz Show" and discovered that almost half of the medical advice had no supporting evidence (www.reliasmedia.com)

TIL: Most glass used today is float glass (en.m.wikipedia.org)

Liquid glass is poured over a bath of liquid tin where it floats on top, gradually cooling until it can be lifted off, annealed to prevent cracking, cut and packaged....

TIL the adjective 'daily' in the lord's prayer is actually written in the original Greek as epiousion, which occurs nowhere else in known history (en.wikipedia.org)

the full line being “Give us today our epiousion bread”...