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 you can make soda from pine needles (www.growforagecookferment.com) French
TIL the word 'lox' (smoked salmon) is the oldest word in the English language- unchanged in meaning and pronunciation for 8,000 years (nautil.us)
it’s also yummy
TIL about Swatch Internet Time, a decimal time system that has no time zones. (en.wikipedia.org)
I feel that this is what we should be using instead of the current illogical time system.
TIL About How 11 Lines of Code Supported Web Development and the Code Was Deleted It Broke the Internet (getpocket.com)
TIL why YouTube buffers when my network is fine. Set network to prefer IPv4 or disable IPv6 (learn.microsoft.com)
I have 2ms ping to YouTube and my network is wired 1gbit so it was odd to get so many buffering issues. So i did a search and this solution immediately solved the buffering issue! Prefer IPv4 or disable IPv6 and it’s buttery smooth
TIL that the top soccer league in Spain is officially known as "LaLiga EA Sports" (en.m.wikipedia.org)
TIL about SearXNG -- search like the old days where you get relevant results instead of a page half full of weird nonsense (searx.envs.net)
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....
TIL; in the US state of Georgia Immigrants are ok, as long as they can be exploited by business owners. (www.theatlantic.com)
Georgia prevents immigrants, causing millions of dollars of crops to rot. changes course to allow immigrants. still against immigration somehow.
TIL a guide dog named Roselle led a group of people including her blind owner down 78 flights of stairs before the North Tower collapsed on 9/11. (wikiless.tiekoetter.com)
She only stopped to give kisses to a woman who was having a panic attack.
TIL Cass Elliot died in Harry Nilsson's apartment, and four years later Keith Moon died in the same room (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL about Earl Silverman, a domestic abuse survivor who founded a shelter for men. It was denied funding from the government and he was ridiculed. The shelter went bankrupt and he died by suicide (en.m.wikipedia.org)
TIL the USA is the only country to not have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL Banksy snuck "cave art" into the British Museum as a hoax in 2005 and then they put it on display for real in 2018. (www.bbc.com)
Peckham Rock, essentially a lump of concrete showing a supposed prehistoric figure pushing a shopping trolley, was smuggled into the venue in 2005. It stayed for three days before staff realised it didn’t belong there....
TIL Keiko, the orca from Free Willy, is buried in a grave in Norway (www.atlasobscura.com)
TIL the CIA trains its spies not to slouch and lean, as that's an American tell (www.cpr.org)
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TIL a Canadian from Greece took an American version of an Italian dish and added tropical fruit to it and called it a Hawaiian pizza. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL about Muppet, Vulcan and Chicken Claws - different ways to hold chopsticks (marcosticks.org)
Direct Links:...
TIL Filmmaker Diablo Cody (she made Juno) had the most insane life. (www.imdb.com)
This is from the IMDB:...
TIL about "America Against America," a fascinating book on US culture and institutions by a Chinese investigator looking in from the outside in 1988. (www.astralcodexten.com)
The reason for such a statute to coordinate dogs and cats is also because of the different interests that exist. Americans, some love dogs and cats to death, and some hate them to death. So, in order to reconcile the two, there must be regulations. I witnessed a family whose dog ran onto a neighbor's lawn to play, and the owner...
TIL the middle finger was used offensively from 423 BC (www.dictionary.com)
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 that Gavrilo Princip, who assassinated Franz Ferdinand, died of Tuberculosis three years and ten months after the assassination. (en.wikipedia.org)
Princip was nineteen years old at the time and too young to be executed, as he was twenty-seven days shy of the twenty-year minimum age limit required by Habsburg law.[43] On Thursday 28 October 1914 the court found Princip guilty of murder and high treason, he received the maximum sentence of twenty years in prison...
