TIL the USA has "national emergencies" still ongoing that date back to 1979 (en.m.wikipedia.org)
TIL ~62% of the atoms in a human body are Hydrogen, and are as old as the universe. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL about raisin juice concentrate - some truly Goldbergian food science (www.delightedcooking.com)
The real reason men grow beards (www.bbc.com)
Staples plan is to recycle nearly everything — and pay their customers for it (www.thecooldown.com)
Check out the full list of what staples accepts now part of their expanded recycling programs....
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 about exploding head syndrome, which causes patients to hear a loud, frightening noise when falling asleep or waking up. Up to 10% of people may have it, but cases often go undiagnosed (en.wikipedia.org)
cross-posted from: lemmit.online/post/2659121
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: 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 that up to 3.7% of pregnancies have misattributed paternity where the child (and possibly the mother) thought the father was someone else (www.newyorker.com)
TIL the dev of Iron Lung, an acclaimed indie horror game, faced significant backlash over increasing the price from $6 to $8 (www.ign.com)
Then, responding to those who have said he’s “only doing this for the money", Szymanski tweeted: “Yes, no fucking shit. I make games for a living. If I didn't want to earn money from them I wouldn't charge money for them.”...
TIL: You can easily check eggs for being bad or fresh (slrpnk.net)
TIL there was an unreleased comic book in which Marvel superhero Captain Britain would resolve The Troubles by having everyone drink "magic civilizing tea" (www.eruditorumpress.com)
TIL about the Crackpot Index, a humorous post for people who claim to have disproved Einstein's theory (math.ucr.edu)
A scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory replied to my email with a curt, please don’t waste my time again. The head of the Physics Department at the University of Miami dropped Bob’s research paper like it was radioactive. He receives one of these papers each week, he said. It turns out, there is a whole community...
TIL there is no original TI-84 as the TI-84 Plus was an upgrade (like iPhone 14 to 13) to the TI-83 Plus (en.wikipedia.org)
And yes, TI calculators have indeed been improving, apparently....
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 Mitsubishi made a Jeep CJ until 1998. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
While picking up my daughter from school today, I noticed an old jeep in the parking lot, but did not think much of it until I saw the tri-spoked Mitsubishi logo above the grill and did quite the double-take. Apparently a number of foreign companies were licensed to produce them after WW2.
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 Nokia has owned Bell Labs since 2016, and still does a lot of Telecom stuff (en.wikipedia.org)
The Nokia logo was also redesigned last year to represent a pivot away from making smartphones. Nokia acquired Bell Labs in 2016 as part of its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent.
TIL Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" is not a love song (www.bbc.com)
Parton wrote this song when she was about to leave her music mentor Porter Wagoner.
TIL Tarot cards were originally used as playing cards, and only came to be used for fortune telling a few hundred years later. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
TIL The fish pepper was thought to be extinct for much of the 20th century until the rediscovery of fifty year-old seeds in a family's freezer (www.bbc.com)
The fish pepper (named for its common use in seafood dishes) is popular today, but it nearly disappeared altogether: that it still exists is thanks to William Woys Weaver, a Maryland author and ethnographer. In 1995, Weaver discovered a jar of seeds in the bottom of a freezer that belonged to his grandfather, H Ralph Weaver....
TIL: A man rejected for police job due to scoring too high on intelligence test. (abcnews.go.com)
Sept. 8, 2000 – A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city....
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