TIL that dragonflies live 80% of their life underwater as larvae. (byjus.com)
The Larva: It is interesting to note that even though we’ve seen dragonflies mostly flying around us during hot summer months, they spend most of their life underwater as a larva. They can live underwater for as long as two years, and this is considered to be the longest stage in the life cycle of a dragonfly....
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: How The IMF and World Bank Debt Trap Countries and Force them into Austerity (medium.com)
TIL: Gamergate's have interesting hierarchy and can replace the queen (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL: After the 1963 March on Washington, the FBI singled out Martin Luther King Jr. as a major COINTELPRO target (medium.com)
TIL Pat Morita (Mr. Miyagi) started out doing stand-up and was mentored by Redd Foxx. Here he is doing stand-up on The Redd Foxx show in 1977. (www.youtube.com)
He also does a great Redd Foxx impersionation- www.youtube.com/watch?v=490TsUYe5f4
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 high speed electron beams are used for sterilization (www.youtube.com)
…and someone shielded the recording electronics of a 360° camera and shoved it through there....
TIL There's a 1.7 Billion Year Old Naturally Occuring Fission Reactor in Africa (en.m.wikipedia.org)
TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism (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 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...
Today I learned about the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (en.m.wikipedia.org)
This is a “”“school”“” that makes “pray away the gay” camps look like lovely vacation experiences. They primarily cater to families with neurodivergent kids under the guise of helping them learn how to function in a neurotypical society. They use methods like GEDs to administer electric shocks when students...
TIL - during her reign Queen Victoria survived eight assassination attempts (www.historic-uk.com)
TIL the Monkees had an FBI File (faroutmagazine.co.uk)
Can’t get more subversive than The Monkees.
TIL about a flower which is called “naked man orchid”. (feddit.de)
TIL: Key differences between Borderline PD and Complex-PTSD (www.psychologytoday.com)
Borderline Personality Disorder...
TIL that there is a global, time traveling radio (sort of) (radiooooo.com)
You can choose anywhere on earth, pick a decade, and hear music from that time and place. Pretty neat.
TIL: Benjamin Netanyahu’s Family Originally had the Surname Mileikowsky When They Came to Palestine from Poland in the 1920s (medium.com)
Dementia and cancer could be prevented by taking 2p pill as Dr Michael Mosley says he's taking it
Dementia and cancer could be prevented by taking 2p pill as Dr Michael Mosley says he’s taking it
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 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 that a billionaire bought Lonely Planet and put an inexperienced 24 year old wedding photographer in charge (www.nbcnews.com)
TIL on 29 April 2013, scientists reported that during spaceflight microbes seem to adapt to the space environment in ways "not observed on Earth" (en.wikipedia.org)
and in ways that “can lead to increases in growth and virulence”....
