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TIL about the gameboy accessory that gasses kids to sleep for surgery (www.destructoid.com)

A new piece of medical equipment is being tested right now called the Pedisedate. Basically, it is a headset that is placed on a child before they are admitted to surgery. The device connects to a Game Boy or portable CD player (yup, not a Nintendo DS or iPod — apparently the Pedisedate also transports you to 1996) and a...

TIL Happy Holidays literally means Happy Holy Day (en.m.wikipedia.org)

Happy Holidays to you all! Get bent, FOX news. Let everyone celebrate the season. Now, I am off to prepare for Festivus at my house.

TIL "magic wand" translates to "baguette magique" in french (i.imgur.com)

TIL about Muppet, Vulcan and Chicken Claws - different ways to hold chopsticks (marcosticks.org)

Direct Links:...

TIL the WORLDS UGLIEST COLOUR has a name : PANTONE 448c (aussie.zone)

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TIL White Castle was the pioneer of fast food, not McDonalds (99percentinvisible.org)

Excellent listen throughout, but you can skip to 17:30 for competition with McDonalds.

TIL that Xbox Controllers can have firmware updates. (iusearchlinux.fyi)

Settings -> Devices & connections -> Controllers & headsets -> (Select your controller) -> (Three dot menu) -> Update now....

TIL the USA has fidget gun toys (sh.itjust.works)

No joke...

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 yawning is observed in almost all vertebrate animals and is "contagious" across species. There is no consensus on why yawning occurs. (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL about "Swill milk" where cows were fed distillery waste causing cow teeth rot and disease. It was also adulterated with raw eggs, burn sugar, etc. Swill milk lead to over 8,000 infant's deaths (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL about the existence of Wikipedia's Nearby page, a list of pages tagged with coordinates nearby where you are (en.m.wikipedia.org)

TIL Peter Molyneux failed his first game so badly he started a baked bean export company, which got confused with a software firm and kickstarted his development career (en.wikipedia.org)

After his first game venture failed, Peter Molyneux started a baked bean export business. Commodore International mistakenly offered him ten free Amiga systems because they confused the baked bean company’s name “Taurus” with a software company “Torus”, and he used the hardware to create a database system for the...

TIL: There is a sculpture with four cryptic passages in it that stands outside the CIA's George Bush Center for Intelligence in Virginia (en.wikipedia.org)

3 out of the 4 passages have solutions to date.

TIL that .sucks is a valid web domain. As I post this, reddit.sucks is available. spez.sucks is available. trump.sucks is registered (get.sucks)

Apparently, they’ve been available since 2014.

TIL the USA is the only country to not have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL in May 1864 the first record of electronic spam was sent by a dentist in London (lemmy.world)

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)

TIL about de la Chapelle syndrome where people with XX chromosomes are born with traditionally masculine organs & presentation. Usually those with the trait are unaware they have XX chromosomes at all (en.wikipedia.org)

The ancient Romans made many attempts to fix the calendar year before landing on 12 months and leap years (www.bbc.com)

I edited the title because my grammar is terrible

TIL of Max Headroom. A faux computer generated show host that went viral in the 80's. (youtu.be)

TIL the german chancellor takes screenshots of his tweets on X and publishes it on his website because X is now a closed system. (feddit.de)

www.bundeskanzler.de/…/twitter-bundeskanzler

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