TIL: The Chicken soup for the soul publisher owns redbox (www.foxbusiness.com)
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TIL Catwoman canonically has a sidekick (batman.fandom.com)
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TIL: Eating pine nuts can occasionally cause some people to experience a bitter or metallic taste lasting from a few days up to 2 weeks (www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au)
The symptoms normally disappear after several days and there are no adverse health effects....
TIL: You can enter into Immersive Reader mode in (Microsoft) Edge to reduce the number of things and CSS displayed on the screen. Great for when you need to study. (support.microsoft.com)
I found mine at the right end of the URL bar....
TIL Ecuador has constitutional protections for the rights of nature, and those protections are actively determining environmental legal cases. (amp.theguardian.com)
A landmark case was won in 2021 ruling against the rights of a mining company to mine los cedros’ cloud forest, a high altitude rainforest, because it would harm the biodiversity of the area....
TIL Germany sometimes used VW Beetles as police cars (www.caranddriver.com)
TIL Joseph Stalin was struck by a sport carriage and severely injured at age 12, which a certain source cited by the Simple English Wikipedia took as his father dying in a drunken brawl (en.wikipedia.org)
The incorrect book. Note that his father only died in 1909 of liver issues. Jughashvili was upset when he learned that Keke had enrolled Ioseb in school, instead hoping his son would follow his path and become a cobbler. This led to a major incident in January 1890. Ioseb had been struck by a phaeton, severely injuring him....
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TIL the earliest recorded use of the @ symbol was from a religious text from 1345 (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL fermilab had a ferret to find obstructions in their particle accelerator in the 1960s (news.fnal.gov)
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TIL - Bulgaria , over the past 35 years, has seen the fastest decline in population of any country in the world — a 28 percent drop (e360.yale.edu)
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TIL - about Louis Wain and his portrayals of cats. Before Wain, cats in England were often thought of with contempt, but his work helped to show them as something to be liked, admired and even loved (illustrationchronicles.com)
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TIL The first air conditioner was created not for cooling a room but to prevent humidity causing swelling pages and blurry prints in a printing press (www.smithsonianmag.com)
At the turn of the 20th century, humidity threatened the reputation of Brooklyn’s Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographic and Publishing Company’s high-quality color printing. After two summers of extreme heat disrupted business and caused swelling pages and blurry prints, the printing company found that a nascent cooling industry...
TIL that 1604, King James I wrote ‘A Counterblaste to Tobacco’, in which he described smoking as a ‘custome lothesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs.
TIL You can see all of the Lemmy community comments and posts that have been removed at the bottom of the sidebar.
It’s called Modlog in the Monitoring Stats section....
TIL that shocking gum was used as a torture device in Iraqi prison. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders (www.theguardian.com)
Stop wasting your time and $ on mobile game. Get real game. Console, PC master race, …
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TIL about vitrification of nuclear waste, wherein nuclear waste is melted down and combined with molten glass. The mixture is cooled in stainless steel canisters where it becomes a solid and can be... (www.hanfordvitplant.com)
What is vitrification? Vitrification is accomplished by mixing waste from underground tanks with glass-forming materials in high-temperature melters.
TIL A man was awarded $7 million in damages after he developed a lung condition from eating two bags of popcorn every day and inhaling the steam from the bag (www.cbsnews.com)
Man had eaten two bags of microwave popcorn daily for 10 years
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TIL Haydn's "Surprise Symphony" was NOT written to wake up sleeping audience members; that was just a myth
Back in school I heard the story that Haydn wrote the “Surprise Symphony” because he was sick of people sleeping through his music, and wanted to startle them awake. It seems like this was a myth....
TIL The candlefish is so rich in oils that when supplied with a wick it can be burned like a candle"
www.uapress.com/product/
TIL A Car Sponsored by Durex Condoms Kept F1 off British TV for much of 1976 (www.bbc.com)
It was arguably the most famous season in Formula 1 history, featuring thrilling racing, off-track controversies and the near-death of the sport’s most famous driver, Niki Lauda, as he battled James Hunt for the world championship....
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TIL May Day, not on the same day as US Labor Day, started "in commemoration of the Haymarket Riot in Chicago (1886)." (www.britannica.com)
In 1889 an international federation of socialist groups and trade unions designated May 1 as a day in support of workers, in commemoration of the Haymarket Riot in Chicago (1886). Five years later, U.S. Pres. Grover Cleveland, uneasy with the socialist origins of Workers’ Day, signed legislation to make Labor Day—already...
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TIL JSFuck, an esoteric subset of JS that only uses operators, could be used to hack eBay customers by injecting it into item listings. As JSFuck obfuscated the actual code, attackers were able to get browsers that see the listing to run external scripts. (arstechnica.com)
This news is from almost exactly 8 years ago. Softpedia reported 13 days later that eBay partially patched it, but the patch was insufficient. I could not find further updates, but I do know that eBay has since removed more advanced JavaScript (incl. JSFuck) from all listings in 2017....
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