#todayilearned — Public Fediverse posts
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So... yes!
> The term "smallpox" was first used in England in the 16th century to distinguish [it] from syphilis, which was then known as the "great pox".
Other names used historically include "speckled monster", and "red plague".
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#TodayILearned that the tradition of giving mooncakes in #China has given rise to a sort of economic cycle in which slips of paper stand in for mooncakes, and companies make profits without selling a single box of mooncakes.
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#TodayILearned that the tradition of giving mooncakes in #China has given rise to a sort of economic cycle in which slips of paper stand in for mooncakes, and companies make profits without selling a single box of mooncakes.
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#TodayILearned that the tradition of giving mooncakes in #China has given rise to a sort of economic cycle in which slips of paper stand in for mooncakes, and companies make profits without selling a single box of mooncakes.
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#TodayILearned that the tradition of giving mooncakes in #China has given rise to a sort of economic cycle in which slips of paper stand in for mooncakes, and companies make profits without selling a single box of mooncakes.
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#TodayILearned that the tradition of giving mooncakes in #China has given rise to a sort of economic cycle in which slips of paper stand in for mooncakes, and companies make profits without selling a single box of mooncakes.
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Burundi 🧵
Population: 13,590,102
What else should you know? 👇
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Spoiler Alert: The break-up of AT&T in the early 80's directly lead to the development of UTP. I did NOT know that when I woke up this morning!
#retrocomputing #til #todayilearned #retronetworking #theserialport #clabretro
TWISTED: The dramatic history of twisted-pair Ethernet https://youtube.com/watch?v=f8PP5IHsL8Y
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Today I learned about https://www.luvly.se/ an ideal city ev. So ideal, you can charge the battery in your flat, because it's removable !
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#TodayILearned that #KiaHuntzinger (credited in the video as #KiaMontgomery) who voiced the iconic #EVA in the #CommandAndConquer series, originally was the receptionist at #WestwoodStudios and her lines were originally recorded as placeholders: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025777/Classic-Game-Postmortem-Command-Conquer
Lovely #ClassicGamePostMortem so far with #MariaDelMarMcCreadyLegg, #LouisCastle, #FrankKlepacki, #SteveWetherill, #EricYeo, #EdDelCastillo, #JoeKucan (#KaneLives!), #BrettSperry, #EricGooch, #TedMoms and #WilliamRandolph.