#factoid — Public Fediverse posts
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@tksst/116919750275172903
🤯 Here's a wild #factoid: a 400-year-old #Greenland #shark discovered in 2026 would be born in 1626, the same year that Mannahatta was officially named New Amsterdam, which of course we now know as #NYC. 🗽
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Random #factoid you won't get anywhere else:
The footprints of the IKEA drill version 2's battery and a large bottle of French's mustard are identical, to within a millimeter.
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CW: gardening
#nocommenttv
#gardening
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This little #factoid is told to you thanks to Mr goto my Asian cultures teacher in high school
he told it very funny he said why am I teaching you all of this?.. because when you go up to the Asian museum in San Francisco with your son and he points it a big statue with a belly and asks dad what is that? You can say that's a corruption of Ganesh
And then when another dude comes up with his son and his son asks what that is and the father says that's a Buddha son
You can turn around and as you are walking away you can say that's not a Buddha son if it were a Buddha it would have ushanika on its head
I am 55 years old, that was 40 years ago and I still remember it which is testimony to how important and how unappreciated qualified #teachers are especially in this country
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It looks like the best connected station in Britain is Clapham Junction, followed by Manchester Piccadilly. For a given value of "best connected".
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A Beaver's tail is flat, leathery, and sparsely haired. Beavers use it as a rudder for steering while swimming and as a prop to balance when standing or sitting on land. They will slap their tail on the water's surface to warn other Beavers of danger. Beavers store fat in their tails, especially before winter, to help them survive periods with limited food.
A Beavertail is also a famous Canadian pastry that was introduced in the winter of 1978 to skaters on the Rideau Canal. It's a great way to eat Beaver without harming any animals.
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Beaver teeth are unique due to their iron-rich orange enamel, which makes them exceptionally strong and resistant to wear. These teeth continuously grow throughout the beaver's life, requiring constant chewing to maintain a manageable size and sharpness. The iron content in the enamel is what gives them their distinctive orange color and provides added strength.
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A Beaver can cut down a 5” thick tree in about three minutes and, on average, will cut down more than 200 trees a year.
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To waterproof themselves, Beavers rub castor oil, produced from a gland near their tail, through their fur using their split toenail (their grooming claw).
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European beavers are, on average, slightly larger and heavier than North American beavers, although both species have significant size variation within their populations. While North American beavers (Castor canadensis) typically weigh between 16 and 32 kg (35 and 70 pounds), Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber) can weigh between 18 and 38 kg (40 and 84 pounds). Not judging...
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Beavers are monogamous, forming lifelong pair bonds. Their offspring will typically live with their parents for two or three years before going off to start their own colony. Remember, once you find a Beaver you like, you should hang onto it.
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Just a brief #factoid to perhaps save other #electronics #hobbyists some time.
#BigClive frequently uses a particular type of crimp-contact-and-housing as a universal socket for LEDs and other leaded components. Not just any such connector will do; various #JST, "#Dupont", and others won't work, because they only grasp pins of one particular size and/or shape. If the lead is too big, it won't go in, and if it's too small, it won't stay in.
If you want to use these connectors - and note you can get the housings with more than 2 contacts, so you can use them for transistors or weirder things too - the magic search term is "KF2510".
The reason these work as universal sockets for leaded components is because the contact is a spring that pushes from only one side of the housing, pressing the inserted contact or lead against the far side of the housing, and therefore provides a friction fit for any size lead (within reason). Most crimp connectors instead have particular shapes for their contacts and will only "grab" something the right size and shape.
#KF2510 #CrimpConnector #crimp #socket #component #leaded #connector #solderless #universal #contact #housing
