TIL the USA has fidget gun toys (sh.itjust.works)
No joke...
TIL that Joe Biden is from Scranton, PA (sh.itjust.works)
Learned something new today while listening to a podcast about US politics.
TIL computers can sometimes grow crystals (upload.wikimedia.org)
Tin in solder or some other meals can form spiky crystals when under stress. These whiskers can form short circuits if not properly insulated or not alloyed with other metals....
TIL Sea Urchins Like to Wear Hats (i.ibb.co)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/538582
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 That reddits "most addicted city" is eglin air force base FL (lemmy.world)
www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/s/vMRsaTdMn0
TIL norway has a homocide map with exact locations of murders. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Link to the site...
TIL: Some cephalopods can fly… (midwest.social)
Some cephalopods are able to fly through the air for distances of up to 50 metres (160 ft). While cephalopods are not particularly aerodynamic, they achieve these impressive ranges by jet-propulsion; water continues to be expelled from the funnel while the organism is in the air. The animals spread their fins and tentacles to...
About the successor of Virtual RMS (lemmy.ml)
Thanks to this comment : lemmy.ml/comment/10591882
TIL the U.S. Civil War is called "The Slave War" in Icelandic (lemmy.world)
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 quadruple A batteries exist (lemmy.world)
What device even uses this??
TIL in 1995 NASA tested psychoactive compounds on spiders. Each drug affected their web patterns differently. (lemmy.world)
Here’s a more detailed description for those that like to read up: rarehistoricalphotos.com/nasa-spiders-drugs-exper…...
TIL that black panthers aren’t a distinct species - they are jaguars or leopards with “melanism”, the opposite of albinism (sh.itjust.works)
The trait is caused by a recessive allele in the leopard, and a dominant allele in the jaguar....
TIL Ecuador doesn't have its own currency and uses US dollars, but maybe not the same US dollars you are used to seeing. (lemmy.world)
TIL America had its First Native American Vice President in 1929, Charles Curtis (lemmy.world)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Curtis
TIL Lisztomania or Liszt fever was the intense fan frenzy directed toward Hungarian composer Franz Liszt during his performances in the 1800s. (aussie.zone)
From Wikipedia:...
TIL the Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through immigration in Hawaii when they splashed down because they had left U.S. borders. (lemmy.world)
I love that ‘moon’ is written under ‘place.’
TIL about "Patch Hop" dances, when young women in the '40s and '50s would claim a boy for a school dance by sewing their patch onto their clothes (lemmy.world)
TIL about Muppet, Vulcan and Chicken Claws - different ways to hold chopsticks (marcosticks.org)
Direct Links:...
TIL: You can save old-growth forests by switching toilet paper (lemmy.nowsci.com)
Most Toilet Paper, especially brands like Charmin from P&G, are cut from old-growth forest, which is way worse for our planet than losing new growth....
TIL that Xbox Controllers can have firmware updates. (iusearchlinux.fyi)
Settings -> Devices & connections -> Controllers & headsets -> (Select your controller) -> (Three dot menu) -> Update now....
TIL that the logo for CNN Arabic uses the CNN logo as part of the Arabic for "in Arabic" (بالعربية). (sopuli.xyz)
TIL DuoLingo offers language courses for Klingon and High Valyrian (lemmy.world)
tlhIngan Hol vIghojtaH!
TIL Einstein compared Israel to Nazis in 1948 (NYT) (monyet.cc)
This letter was written to the Editors of the New York Times Dec. 2, 1948 – several months after the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel....
