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TIL Someone made a 10 hour long movie that's just paint drying to protest censorship by the British Board of Film Classification. The film was rated suitable for all ages. (m.imdb.com)

Edit: Note: it says Not Rated, that’s for the US. The UK rating is U.

TIL of ROGUE TAXIDERMY: an art movement using traditional elements of taxidermy in an unconventional manner. (aussie.zone)

An introduction to the rogue revolution...

TIL that The Smallest Computer in the World Fits On a Grain of Rice (ece.engin.umich.edu)

TIL an ant mega-colony exists across 3 continents and is thought to contain billions of ants, all of which recognise each other to be from the same colony. The largest part of the colony is in Europe (news.bbc.co.uk)

til: Benford's law: real life number are not evenly disribued, 1 occur 30% of the time (lemmy.world)

TIL That Britain Is Poorer Than Any US State, Even Mississippi (www.forbes.com)

TIL that the BBC had no archival policy until 1978, and many of its old broadcasts were only aired live. A number of BBC broadcasts are lost, including a show featuring a then-unknown Bob Dylan; 97... (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL your skin health can actually impact your overall health including heart and neurological conditions (www.bbc.com)

As the largest organ in the body, the skin can have a profound impact. The chemicals released by diseased and dysfunctional skin soon enter the bloodstream, where they wash around, damaging other tissues. Amid the ensuing systemic inflammation, chemicals from the skin can reach and harm organs that seem entirely unrelated,...

TIL about the scientist who stuck his head in an active particle accelerator and the scientist who accidentally gave himself the wrong STD (youtu.be)

Worst Science Experiments Gone Wrong...

TIL of PISS CHRIST: a controversial depiction of a crucifix immersed in urine created by artist and photographer Andres Serrano (aussie.zone)

Immersion (Piss Christ) WikiA 1987 photograph by the American artist and photographer Andres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a small glass tank of the artist’s urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art’s “Awards in the Visual Arts” competition,[1] which was...

TIL about a collection of math problems, known as “The Millennium Problems” that will earn the solver a $1 million prize (www.claymath.org)

A collection of mysterious and unsolved math problems, also known as “The Millennium Problems” are 7 extremely challenging and complex mathematical problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. Solving any of these problems would not only advance our understanding of mathematics but also earn the solver a...

TIL there was a briefly popular social movement in the early 1930s called the "Technocracy Movement." Technocrats proposed replacing politicians and businessmen with scientists and engineers who ha... (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL that In World War II, British spies plotted to spike Hitler's food with estrogen to make him less aggressive.

TIL: There is a community on Lemmy where people share Weird and Oddly Specific (music) Playlists (lemmy.world)

TIL that there are approximately 299 people cryogenically frozen in Scottsdale, Arizona (www.smithsonianmag.com)

The human cryopreservation project faces skepticism from medical and legal authorities

TIL Shirley Temple hated the mocktail of lemon-lime soda/ginger ale and grenadine named after her, declaring it "too sweet". In 1988, she won a lawsuit to stop a bottled version from using her name. (www.wikipedia.org)

TIL that even though ticks can't fly or jump, they can use static electricity to launch themselves onto passing mammals (www.science.org)

TIl Rick James’ cameo in chappelle’s show was so successful it caused him to return to touring and performing. He died a few months into the tour. (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL that dragonflies live 80% of their life underwater as larvae. (byjus.com)

The Larva: It is interesting to note that even though we’ve seen dragonflies mostly flying around us during hot summer months, they spend most of their life underwater as a larva. They can live underwater for as long as two years, and this is considered to be the longest stage in the life cycle of a dragonfly....

TIL that because of the amount of time it saves, the washing machine has been called "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.” Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberat... (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL: Cheech Marin released a children's music album in 1992 called, "My Name Is Cheech The School Bus Driver" (open.spotify.com)

TIL fake "555" phone numbers you see in movies and TV shows were once legitimate numbers that anyone could register, but Verizon would charge you $2,500 to use them (lookify.io)

Looked this up after watching Better Call Saul and noticing a phone number in one of the episodes!

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