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 of Mustatils; over 1000 walled courtyards spanning hundreds of meters were built at least 7000 years ago. Their function in unknown. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL of the Mobile phone throwing competition that originated in Finland (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL digital sweatshops are a thing, one of them is owned by Amazon (m.youtube.com)
Yanis brings speaks about the topic at hand within the first 5 min. of video...
TIL that Anthony Blinken, current US Secretary of State, has over 650 monthly listeners on Spotify.
open.spotify.com/artist/5ZWgy4Riyzr0QtvcIKiZmF
TIL about Halal Ribfest (barbecue/food that's permitted by a Muslim diet) and they go on tour. (www.halalribfest.com)
TIL rabies is an STD (www.ebervet.com)
TIL "jerk" had the meaning of "stupid" (www.theringer.com)
Great article by the host of my favorite Podcast....
TIL that retired chemist, Khonghao Shou, predicted the 2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran by observing cloud formations.
He not only predicted the approximate date, but also the magnitude and epicenter....
TIL many of the social media sites top brass come directly from the alphabet orgs (twitter.com)
CIA, NSA, FBI,…...
Great story about a small Danish town that helped rescue Jews during World War Two (www.bbc.com)
TIL Abou thief ants that infest any nests to steal food (www.canr.msu.edu)
Thief ants are absolutely tiny ants that are named for building their nests connected to the colonies of bigger ant species. They do this to steal food.
TIL of Naba Baongo II, a sub-national monarch in Burkina Faso. In 2015, he played a key role in ending a military coup in the country peacefully, without any bloodshed. His kingdom is 528+ years old (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL the history behind the "space melody".
You may know it as Space Melody by Luna Park or as ResuRection by ППК (English: PPK), but the original melody was composed by Eduard Artemyev for the 1979 Soviet film Siberiade. The original name of the song, as titled in the movie’s soundtrack release, is la mort du héroes (the death of heroes, if my French is correct)....
TIL CJK compatibilty ideographs (often used to put a lot of symbols in fonts such as 着 which displays as the Wii logo on my machine) were originally allocated to support older standards for storing Chinese characters and derivatives in code points (en.wikipedia.org)
Sorry for the confusing title. Basically before Unicode, a bunch of different standards for storing Chinese characters (also used in Korean and Japanese which also have some of their own derivatives) emerged. When Unicode sought to unify every standard they of course had to add compatibility for older standards so for all the...
TIL "The moderate position on Ukraine is to hold both Russia and the US empire responsible for their respective roles in starting and continuing this war. That’s the middle ground." (caitlinjohnstone.com)
The mainstream position in the west is that Putin invaded Ukraine solely because he is evil and hates freedom, and that Moscow is 100% responsible for this conflict in every way while the US is just an innocent little flower who just wants to protect freedom and democracy. When you actually spell out what the mainstream position...
TIL not to microwave pancakes for 2 minutes
I learned this morning that if you microwave frozen pancakes for 2 minutes you’ll have to throw the plastic plate out
TIL Wikipedia is an arm of the propaganda machine for politicians and gov't agencies (web.archive.org)
You can read more about Larry’s encyclosphere here: larrysanger.org/…/the-encyclosphere-is-greater-th…
TIL that "1 Week of Water Fasting" is very easy for me (tube.jeena.net)
In the video I do a summary of how it went.
TIL kobolds in Japan are dog-people because of a mistranslation in a copy of AD&D in the 80s
I was reading about Dungeon Meshi and Kuro, the “kobold”....
TIL the USA has fidget gun toys (sh.itjust.works)
No joke...
TIL psychedelics supposedly work by desynchronizing the brain (www.nature.com)
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 That the entirety of Wikipedia is only ~100Gb and you can download it for offline use
In light of the recent Crowdstrike crash revealing how weak points in IT infrastructure can have wide ranging effects, I figured this might be an interesting one....