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TIL James Brown and the opera singer Luciano Pavaratti did a duet singing 'It's a Man's World' (www.youtube.com)

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TIL Kudzu growth in the US has been way overestimated. Newer estimates stated that Asian privet had invaded some 3.2 million acres—14 times kudzu’s territory (www.smithsonianmag.com)

In news media and scientific accounts and on some government websites, kudzu is typically said to cover seven million to nine million acres across the United States. But scientists reassessing kudzu’s spread have found that it’s nothing like that. In the latest careful sampling, the U.S. Forest Service reports that kudzu...

TIL that "1 Week of Water Fasting" is very easy for me (tube.jeena.net)

In the video I do a summary of how it went.

TIL digital sweatshops are a thing, one of them is owned by Amazon (m.youtube.com)

Yanis brings speaks about the topic at hand within the first 5 min. of video...

TIL that I saved a 13 year old post from the old place that lists all the free web learning courses. He updated it for quite a while. Why don't we fix it?

General Sites:...

TIL that there is a Refugee Team in the Olympics (olympics.com)

TIL that science does still not fully understand how cycling works (www.cbc.ca)

TIL: There is a species of penguin that lives in the southern point of Africa. (African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), also known as Cape penguin or South African penguin.) (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL Gargoyles are named that because of the water they gargle out of their mouths. (www.merriam-webster.com)

Proper use of the term gargoyle being the statues that drain water from buildings....

TIL: There is a breed of goat that is half black and half white -- The Valais Blackneck goat (en.wikipedia.org)

(Full disclosure, I learned this yesterday.)...

TIL about Babylonian astronomy - Wikipedia (en.m.wikipedia.org)

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

TIL Legionnaires' disease (form of walking pneumonia) got its name from an outbreak at an American Legion convention (99percentinvisible.org)

The Japanese developers of Puck-Man changed the name to Pac-Man when porting it to North America to avoid a scenario where the "P" in Puck Man would be changed to an "F", forming an obscene name.

Eyeing the game’s success in Japan, Namco initialized plans to bring the game to the international market, particularly the United States.[26] Before showing the game to distributors, Namco America made a number of changes, such as altering the names of the ghosts.[26] The biggest of these was the game’s title; executives at...

TIL that Anthony Blinken, current US Secretary of State, has over 650 monthly listeners on Spotify.

open.spotify.com/artist/5ZWgy4Riyzr0QtvcIKiZmF

TIL "The moderate position on Ukraine is to hold both Russia and the US empire responsible for their respective roles in starting and continuing this war. That’s the middle ground." (caitlinjohnstone.com)

The mainstream position in the west is that Putin invaded Ukraine solely because he is evil and hates freedom, and that Moscow is 100% responsible for this conflict in every way while the US is just an innocent little flower who just wants to protect freedom and democracy. When you actually spell out what the mainstream position...

TIL that in Melbourne, a 1 : 1 000 000 000 scale model of the solar system includes a mini-Proxima-Centauri that is one-time-around-the-entire-world away at this scale. (stkildamelbourne.com.au)

From the pdf:...

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