The music usage "album" refers to the original practice of creating an album book of several 78s bound as separate pages, like a stamp or photo album. (lemmy.world)
www.reddit.com/r/vinyl/comments/…/d3579rg/
TIL That reddits "most addicted city" is eglin air force base FL (lemmy.world)
www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/s/vMRsaTdMn0
TIL - Pandanus tectorius, also known as Hala fruit, has segmented, large fruits with a diameter of 4–20 cm and a length of 8–30 cm. The fruits are made up of 38–200 wedge-like keys (phalanges) (midi.moe)
TIL of GUERRILLA MARKETING and the GREAT MOONINITE PANIC of 2007 : or How a tiny LED sign turned a city upside down. (aussie.zone)
👉 Boston.com article...
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: The CDC estimates that 5 percent of all hospital admissions result in a healthcare-associated infection, culminating in approximately 722,000 infections and 75,000 deaths each year (epi.dph.ncdhhs.gov)
TIL Bologna in Italy had dozens of towers built in the middle ages (ars.els-cdn.com)
These mini castles were built all over the city....
TIL of the CLOACA PROFESSIONAL : a large art installation that turns food into feces. (aussie.zone)
👉Wim Delvoye wiki...
TIL of PISS CHRIST: a controversial depiction of a crucifix immersed in urine created by artist and photographer Andres Serrano (aussie.zone)
Immersion (Piss Christ) WikiA 1987 photograph by the American artist and photographer Andres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a small glass tank of the artist’s urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art’s “Awards in the Visual Arts” competition,[1] which was...
TIL about Moonbow: Nature's Rare and Beautiful Phenomenon Similar to Rainbow (upload.wikimedia.org)
A moonbow is a rare and stunning natural phenomenon that occurs when moonlight is refracted and reflected off water droplets in the air, creating a colorful arc of light in the night sky. Similar to a rainbow, moonbows are formed when light is dispersed into its various colors, but they are much rarer and more elusive, as they...
TIL: A simple rubber glove will get pet hair out of fabrics (lemmy.world)
This works way better than you might expect.
TIL about "Patch Hop" dances, when young women in the '40s and '50s would claim a boy for a school dance by sewing their patch onto their clothes (lemmy.world)
TIL America had its First Native American Vice President in 1929, Charles Curtis (lemmy.world)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Curtis
TIL of the UNDER THE INFLUENCE series in which artist Bryan Saunders took a different drug everyday and drew a self portrait. (aussie.zone)
👉BoredPanda article with portraits...
TIL of ROGUE TAXIDERMY: an art movement using traditional elements of taxidermy in an unconventional manner. (aussie.zone)
An introduction to the rogue revolution...
TIL: You can save old-growth forests by switching toilet paper (lemmy.nowsci.com)
Most Toilet Paper, especially brands like Charmin from P&G, are cut from old-growth forest, which is way worse for our planet than losing new growth....
TIL that Joe Biden is from Scranton, PA (sh.itjust.works)
Learned something new today while listening to a podcast about US politics.
TIL that the descendants of the Wittelsbach family, that reigned the Bavaria until 1918, still receive 14 million euros annually (castleholic.com)
Descendants of the Wittelsbach family, that reigned the Bavaria until 1918, still receive 14 million euros annually from a compensation fund that was established 100 years ago. The head of the family also has the right to live in Schloss Nymphenburg in Munich.
TIL of BILLBOARD LIBERATION FRONT : An artist guerrilla group that alters billboards by changing key words to radically alter the message, often to an anti-corporate message. (aussie.zone)
👉A beginners guide to brandalism...
TIL that the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. (lemmy.world)
When Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, he did paint her eyebrows, but over time, they wore away due to cleaning and maintenance to the point where it’s no longer visible today.
TIL of axanthism, a condition that makes animals that are normally green appear blue due to a lack of yellow pigment (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Photo credit: Matt Minnich...
TIL Survival Research Laboratories is a performance art group that pioneered large scale machine performances. They put on noisy, violent, and destructive shows that can be very dangerous to audiences (aussie.zone)
Mark Pauline is an undisputed mastermind when it comes to sticking it to the man. For the past thirty years, he’s been mesmerizing audiences and machinophiles around the world with his terrifying and satirical machine-based performances. Offering an alternative outlet for would-be war machines and their engineers, Pauline’s...
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 some sharks lay eggs and they look like this (lemmy.world)
TIL About the Loudest plane Developed in USA (Thunderscreech) (lemmy.world)
Basically, the “Thunderscreech” was one of the most weird planes developed during the Cold War. The idea was combine the high climbing rates of motors with propellers and the supersonic speeds of jets… The problem? In the tip of propellers, the air move much faster, thus, creating shock waves, producing noise capable of...
