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TIL Saint Nicholas (aka Santa Claus) is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, unmarried people and students

I think he would love Vegas source...

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 Hunter S. Thomson got an early honorable discharge from the air force in part because, "Sometimes his rebel and superior attitude seems to rub off on other airmen staff members." (en.wikipedia.org)

From Wikipedia: In 1958, while he was an airman first class, his commanding officer recommended him for an early honorable discharge. “In summary, this airman, although talented, will not be guided by policy,” chief of information services Colonel William S. Evans wrote to the Eglin personnel office. “Sometimes his rebel...

TIL The term "joystick" does not originate from video games, and was first coined in 1909 (en.m.wikipedia.org)

The origin of the term is contested, but may be derived from “George Stick”, named for a possible inventor....

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: Amazing Process of Cutting Gigantic Volcanic Glass to Make Crystal Balls (youtu.be)

Video of people making crazy crystal balls

TIL That reddits "most addicted city" is eglin air force base FL (lemmy.world)

www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/s/vMRsaTdMn0

TIL why YouTube buffers when my network is fine. Set network to prefer IPv4 or disable IPv6 (learn.microsoft.com)

I have 2ms ping to YouTube and my network is wired 1gbit so it was odd to get so many buffering issues. So i did a search and this solution immediately solved the buffering issue! Prefer IPv4 or disable IPv6 and it’s buttery smooth

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

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

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 that the album "Songs for the Deaf" by Queens of the Stone Age has a hidden track before Track #1 (en.m.wikipedia.org)

A WWII Propaganda Campaign Popularized the Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark (www.smithsonianmag.com)

TIL about SearXNG -- search like the old days where you get relevant results instead of a page half full of weird nonsense (searx.envs.net)

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 Kowloon Walled City existed and is the real world origin for many visual representations of oppressive urbanization in cyberpunk media (en.wikipedia.org)

I came across a video on Youtube discussing it (there are several), and Kowloon Walled City is just endlessly fascinating. A few notable videos I found on the subject were:...

TIL China now has a 3 child policy. (en.m.wikipedia.org)

Maximum, that is....

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)

From the article:...

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 the first Star Wars movie (A New Hope) was actually made after a book adaptation, which means Star Wars hype is technically literary-based in nature (starwars.fandom.com)

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