#todayilearned — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #todayilearned, aggregated by home.social.
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#TodayILearned that Jell-O is a company, not a generic term for gelatin desserts as I previously thought. https://youtu.be/ZULCU7n1_Gs
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#TodayILearned that Jell-O is a company, not a generic term for gelatin desserts as I previously thought. https://youtu.be/ZULCU7n1_Gs
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#TodayILearned that Jell-O is a company, not a generic term for gelatin desserts as I previously thought. https://youtu.be/ZULCU7n1_Gs
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#TodayILearned that Jell-O is a company, not a generic term for gelatin desserts as I previously thought. https://youtu.be/ZULCU7n1_Gs
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#TodayILearned that Jell-O is a company, not a generic term for gelatin desserts as I previously thought. https://youtu.be/ZULCU7n1_Gs
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#TodayILearned that #EdSheeran did a photo-op role-playing as a Starbucks barista in Seattle, in a store that Starbucks was actively union-busting in 2023.
https://www.themarysue.com/ed-sheeran-spotted-scabbing-for-starbucks/
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#TodayILearned that #EdSheeran did a photo-op role-playing as a Starbucks barista in Seattle, in a store that Starbucks was actively union-busting in 2023.
https://www.themarysue.com/ed-sheeran-spotted-scabbing-for-starbucks/
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#TodayILearned that #EdSheeran did a photo-op role-playing as a Starbucks barista in Seattle, in a store that Starbucks was actively union-busting in 2023.
https://www.themarysue.com/ed-sheeran-spotted-scabbing-for-starbucks/
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#TodayILearned that #EdSheeran did a photo-op role-playing as a Starbucks barista in Seattle, in a store that Starbucks was actively union-busting in 2023.
https://www.themarysue.com/ed-sheeran-spotted-scabbing-for-starbucks/
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#TodayILearned that #EdSheeran did a photo-op role-playing as a Starbucks barista in Seattle, in a store that Starbucks was actively union-busting in 2023.
https://www.themarysue.com/ed-sheeran-spotted-scabbing-for-starbucks/
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#TodayILearned that China attempted to simplify Chinese characters *twice*.
As many of you know, the characters used in most of Mainland China is “simplified” (简体字), while the characters used in Hong Kong and Taiwan never got simplified, and remained “traditional” (正體字).
What I didn’t know was that China attempted to simplify the character set *again* (二简字), and it flopped mightily, falling out of use only seven months after its announcement.
Julesy describes the second round, and why it flopped.
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#TodayILearned that China attempted to simplify Chinese characters *twice*.
As many of you know, the characters used in most of Mainland China is “simplified” (简体字), while the characters used in Hong Kong and Taiwan never got simplified, and remained “traditional” (正體字).
What I didn’t know was that China attempted to simplify the character set *again* (二简字), and it flopped mightily, falling out of use only seven months after its announcement.
Julesy describes the second round, and why it flopped.
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#TodayILearned that China attempted to simplify Chinese characters *twice*.
As many of you know, the characters used in most of Mainland China is “simplified” (简体字), while the characters used in Hong Kong and Taiwan never got simplified, and remained “traditional” (正體字).
What I didn’t know was that China attempted to simplify the character set *again* (二简字), and it flopped mightily, falling out of use only seven months after its announcement.
Julesy describes the second round, and why it flopped.
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#TodayILearned that China attempted to simplify Chinese characters *twice*.
As many of you know, the characters used in most of Mainland China is “simplified” (简体字), while the characters used in Hong Kong and Taiwan never got simplified, and remained “traditional” (正體字).
What I didn’t know was that China attempted to simplify the character set *again* (二简字), and it flopped mightily, falling out of use only seven months after its announcement.
Julesy describes the second round, and why it flopped.
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#TodayILearned that China attempted to simplify Chinese characters *twice*.
As many of you know, the characters used in most of Mainland China is “simplified” (简体字), while the characters used in Hong Kong and Taiwan never got simplified, and remained “traditional” (正體字).
What I didn’t know was that China attempted to simplify the character set *again* (二简字), and it flopped mightily, falling out of use only seven months after its announcement.
Julesy describes the second round, and why it flopped.
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#TodayILearned that there is a subculture of restoring and driving classic US V8 cars in #Sweden.
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#TodayILearned that there is a subculture of restoring and driving classic US V8 cars in #Sweden.
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#TodayILearned that there is a subculture of restoring and driving classic US V8 cars in #Sweden.
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#TodayILearned that there is a subculture of restoring and driving classic US V8 cars in #Sweden.
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#TodayILearned that there is a subculture of restoring and driving classic US V8 cars in #Sweden.
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Zohran Mamdani's mother is Mira Nair, the film director. How did I not know this before?
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Zohran Mamdani's mother is Mira Nair, the film director. How did I not know this before?
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Zohran Mamdani's mother is Mira Nair, the film director. How did I not know this before?
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/makarna
"Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مقارنه (makarna), from Sicilian maccarruna, the plural of maccarruni." #todayIlEarned #til 💡 Praise1d be #Cryptonai 🙏 💚 -
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/makarna
"Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مقارنه (makarna), from Sicilian maccarruna, the plural of maccarruni." #todayIlEarned #til 💡 Praise1d be #Cryptonai 🙏 💚 -
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/makarna
"Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مقارنه (makarna), from Sicilian maccarruna, the plural of maccarruni." #todayIlEarned #til 💡 Praise1d be #Cryptonai 🙏 💚 -
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/makarna
"Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مقارنه (makarna), from Sicilian maccarruna, the plural of maccarruni." #todayIlEarned #til 💡 Praise1d be #Cryptonai 🙏 💚 -
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/makarna
"Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مقارنه (makarna), from Sicilian maccarruna, the plural of maccarruni." #todayIlEarned #til 💡 Praise1d be #Cryptonai 🙏 💚 -
Some minutes ago I learned about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono-_and_diglycerides_of_fatty_acids#:~:text=although%20animal%20fats%20are%20sometimes%20used%20and%20cannot%20be%20completely%20excluded%20as%20being%20present%20in%20the%20product . I didn't know, though I already avoided it because I avoid palm oil. It's usually found in packaged bread. Vegans be careful! #Veganism #Vegan #Vegans #New #Finding #NewFinding #TIl #TodayILearned #Antispeciesism #Antispeciesist #Discovery #NewDiscovery :vegan:❤️‼️
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Some minutes ago I learned about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono-_and_diglycerides_of_fatty_acids#:~:text=although%20animal%20fats%20are%20sometimes%20used%20and%20cannot%20be%20completely%20excluded%20as%20being%20present%20in%20the%20product . I didn't know, though I already avoided it because I avoid palm oil. It's usually found in packaged bread. Vegans be careful! #Veganism #Vegan #Vegans #New #Finding #NewFinding #TIl #TodayILearned #Antispeciesism #Antispeciesist #Discovery #NewDiscovery :vegan:❤️‼️
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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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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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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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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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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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Answering the earlier question, the Maldives is apparently the only country on Earth which considers Friday the first day of the week. #TodayILearned #TIL
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Answering the earlier question, the Maldives is apparently the only country on Earth which considers Friday the first day of the week. #TodayILearned #TIL
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Answering the earlier question, the Maldives is apparently the only country on Earth which considers Friday the first day of the week. #TodayILearned #TIL
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Answering the earlier question, the Maldives is apparently the only country on Earth which considers Friday the first day of the week. #TodayILearned #TIL
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Answering the earlier question, the Maldives is apparently the only country on Earth which considers Friday the first day of the week. #TodayILearned #TIL
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Today I learned:
Before marking up emphasised passages in a text using italic type or bold type became a thing, there was rubrication: the practice of writing important passages and other parts of a text that required emphasis in red ink.
This did not only include cases we would use italic type for today, but also things like headings or initial letters in a line.
And occasionally, rubrication was used to mark up instructions, e. g. for a priest; the black coloured text would be the text to be spoken aloud, and the red coloured text would contain the instructions for the speaker.
Scribes would sit in their scriptorium (if they had one) and just mark up emphasised passages in red ink. Such scribes were called rubricators.
Some bible editions, called Red Letter Editions, used red ink to mark up words spoken by Jesus Christ specifically.
#til #todayILearned #bookbinding #books #writing #linguistics #history #typesetting #printing
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Today I learned:
Before marking up emphasised passages in a text using italic type or bold type became a thing, there was rubrication: the practice of writing important passages and other parts of a text that required emphasis in red ink.
This did not only include cases we would use italic type for today, but also things like headings or initial letters in a line.
And occasionally, rubrication was used to mark up instructions, e. g. for a priest; the black coloured text would be the text to be spoken aloud, and the red coloured text would contain the instructions for the speaker.
Scribes would sit in their scriptorium (if they had one) and just mark up emphasised passages in red ink. Such scribes were called rubricators.
Some bible editions, called Red Letter Editions, used red ink to mark up words spoken by Jesus Christ specifically.
#til #todayILearned #bookbinding #books #writing #linguistics #history #typesetting #printing
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Today I learned:
Before marking up emphasised passages in a text using italic type or bold type became a thing, there was rubrication: the practice of writing important passages and other parts of a text that required emphasis in red ink.
This did not only include cases we would use italic type for today, but also things like headings or initial letters in a line.
And occasionally, rubrication was used to mark up instructions, e. g. for a priest; the black coloured text would be the text to be spoken aloud, and the red coloured text would contain the instructions for the speaker.
Scribes would sit in their scriptorium (if they had one) and just mark up emphasised passages in red ink. Such scribes were called rubricators.
Some bible editions, called Red Letter Editions, used red ink to mark up words spoken by Jesus Christ specifically.
#til #todayILearned #bookbinding #books #writing #linguistics #history #typesetting #printing
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Today I learned:
Before marking up emphasised passages in a text using italic type or bold type became a thing, there was rubrication: the practice of writing important passages and other parts of a text that required emphasis in red ink.
This did not only include cases we would use italic type for today, but also things like headings or initial letters in a line.
And occasionally, rubrication was used to mark up instructions, e. g. for a priest; the black coloured text would be the text to be spoken aloud, and the red coloured text would contain the instructions for the speaker.
Scribes would sit in their scriptorium (if they had one) and just mark up emphasised passages in red ink. Such scribes were called rubricators.
Some bible editions, called Red Letter Editions, used red ink to mark up words spoken by Jesus Christ specifically.
#til #todayILearned #bookbinding #books #writing #linguistics #history #typesetting #printing
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#todayILearned that #AWSCloudFront does not automatically expose the Cache-Control HTTP header when creating a custom cache control policy. It will apply the policy to CloudFront... but unless you specifically configure it to share the Cache-Control header with the client it just won't. Thanks, Amazon.
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#todayILearned that #AWSCloudFront does not automatically expose the Cache-Control HTTP header when creating a custom cache control policy. It will apply the policy to CloudFront... but unless you specifically configure it to share the Cache-Control header with the client it just won't. Thanks, Amazon.
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#todayILearned that #AWSCloudFront does not automatically expose the Cache-Control HTTP header when creating a custom cache control policy. It will apply the policy to CloudFront... but unless you specifically configure it to share the Cache-Control header with the client it just won't. Thanks, Amazon.
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#todayILearned that #AWSCloudFront does not automatically expose the Cache-Control HTTP header when creating a custom cache control policy. It will apply the policy to CloudFront... but unless you specifically configure it to share the Cache-Control header with the client it just won't. Thanks, Amazon.
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#todayILearned that #AWSCloudFront does not automatically expose the Cache-Control HTTP header when creating a custom cache control policy. It will apply the policy to CloudFront... but unless you specifically configure it to share the Cache-Control header with the client it just won't. Thanks, Amazon.
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TIL that modern toilet paper was invented around 1857.
But... a 'splinter free' version of it wasn't introduced until the early 1930's...
Yeah... you read that right... early toilet paper would have splinters in it.
Imagine wiping your arse and getting a splinter in ya chocolate starfish.
Try explaining that to the nurse...