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  1. CW: low quality fact

    A cyber-terrorist hacker group has DDoS'd Canonical, causing a 24h+ major outage in the midst of critical kernel patch roll-outs.

    Their demands: Remove systemd and Wayland, bring back compiz.

    #lowqualityfact

  2. @ckape Did you know? When Mario is fully facing the player, his mustache is also the same as the cloud/bush. You just don't notice because he's always facing sideways.

    #LowQualityFact

  3. CW: semi nsfw

    @josh0

    Low Quality Fact, "Snuggling your moose" is the Canadian term for "Choking your chicken"

    #Canada #LowQualityFact

  4. Lester Pivot started out in go-kart racing but achieved greater success when he turned to horse racing

    #lowQualityFact

  5. @rtfm because they were invented by the Earl of Wrap, and it's not named after how they're made. #LowQualityFact

  6. @kingtor Well at least you didn't buy up all the dried safflower petals hoping for a huge arbitrage opportunity in the saffron market. You did inspire me to do a few searches and find out the main use for safflower petals is to take photos for visually attractive illustrations in articles about safflower oil (that's a borderline #LowQualityFact although perhaps a bit too true for that genre).

  7. El Lipsis was a Spanish medieval knight…
    Not as well known as El Cid because he went a bit dotty

    #lowQualityFact

  8. Le sachiez tu ? Utiliser des smileys à l'ancienne comme ;) ou :) fait économiser jusqu'à 20% de CO2 par rapport aux emojis 😉 ou 🙂. #LowQualityFact

  9. #lowQualityFact

    thesauri were invented so that frontend coders could name their things

  10. #LowQualityFact Noise-cancelling headphones were invented by CSIRO to help people work with the sound of cicadas in summer in Australia.

  11. #lowQualityFact

    In 2008, Tribe Called Quest re-released their 1990 ‘Can I Kick It?’ as ‘Can I Vote for Obama on the Basis of Rhetoric?’

  12. @lowqualityfacts

    > Meta's arbitrary followers requirement

    Wut? Is that another #LowQualityFact?

  13. @codinghorror @anildash it’s on the web that means it’s in the web of trust

  14. In Chinese characters, 辶 stands for electric scooter :neofox_googly:
    #lowQualityFact

  15. @prettyhuman It'll happen approximately three weeks after the US adopts the metric system.

    (Note: This might be a #lowqualityfact.)

  16. Pikelets became popular in Australia because of the historical shortage of plates large enough to serve pikes. #lowqualityfact

  17. Low-quality fact: from now on, all eclipses will be annular eclipses because the Moon has gotten smaller 🌞 🌕

    #LowQualityFact #eclipse #astronomy

  18. Japanese cicadas emits sound at a frequency of about 300 to 500 Hz, which is called the cicadadence. Cicada songs align perfectly with the smallest intervals of classical western music, meaning they consist of semitones (in Japanese, セミtones).

    #LowQualityFact #cicadas #japan #セミ