#todayilearned — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #todayilearned, aggregated by home.social.
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#TodayILearned that Ford never owned the trademark to “GT40”, even though that was what they called their car that won Daytona and Le Mans in the late 1960s. The brand was later trademarked in 1985 by Safir Engineering, and is now owned by Safir GT40 Spares in Cincinnati, Ohio.
When Ford planned the production of the new GT for 2006, they briefly considered calling it “GT44” because that’s how tall the new car was, but they ended up calling it “Ford GT” instead.
#cars @carspotting https://gram.social/p/carspotting/997024227359394821
https://www.fordracing.com/articles/enthusiasts/newsroom/2025/08/ford-gt-20th
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#TodayILearned that there’s a (somewhat) annual week-long event in South Lake Tahoe #california for “stance cars” called Lake2o.
The next one starts next week, Aug 26–30.
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TIL
Hatte heute eine größere Rohdaten #Excel Tabelle, bei der in jeder Zeile zusätzlich zum Datum auch das Quartal angegeben war. Dieses wurde in der Datenquelle aber manuell eingegeben und war teils falsch🤷♂️Ich wollte nach Quartal auswerten, wollte es also besser aus dem Datum herleiten. Es gibt Formeln JAHR oder MONAT, aber keine fürs Quartal
Falls das mal noch jemand braucht, so habe ich es gemacht:
=AUFRUNDEN((MONAT([Zellref Datum])/3;0)
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#TodayILearned The longest consecutive stay at the summit of Mt Everest was 21 hours by Babu Chiri Sherpa in 1999. He brought a tent and remained awake, without supplemental oxygen, the entire time.
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#TodayILearned that an industrial version of a paternoster elevator, called a “manlift” is still used. The device consists of a wide belt with steps and handholds built into it which travel simultaneously up and down on opposite sides of a pair of pulleys.
Not surprisingly, this device is pretty dangerous, and is not in use as much as it used to be.
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TIL: Durch Zufall festgestellt, dass man im Gegensatz zu den meisten anderen Pflastern mit „Hansaplast Universal Wasserfest“ Touch-Bildschirme nutzen kann!
Auf dem Handy tippen, auf dem Tablet blättern und scrollen, PIN auf Kartenterminals eingeben, alles kein Problem!
😃👍Mit Hansaplast „Classic“ und „Sensitiv“ ging das bisher nicht, auch nicht mit diversen Drogerie-Eigenmarken oder dem sonst von mir sehr geschätzten „Aluderm“ Zeugs von Söhngen 🤷♂️
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#TodayILearned that the word “benzin”, used to mean “gasoline” or “petrol” in many languages around the world, came from the name of an aromatic gum from Java called “lubān jāwi” in Arabic (lit. “Javanese frankincense”). The word then traveled to medieval Catalan where it was rebracketed into “lo benjuí”. It then entered French as “benjoin”, and the rest is history. “Benzin” and other variants were used to name any number of things that produced a volatile or combustible vapor, including petroleum.
Interestingly, petroleum is called “bensin” in Java, and I never realized the term traveled around the world and returned full circle.
Video source: hxxps://www.facebook.com/reel/1709454410291684
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#TodayILearned what "findom" is.
To my immense disappointment, it has nothing to do with fins, nor finns, and instead is something a lot more disappointing.
EDIT: Just realized, in case people read that into it, I should clarify:
No, I do not take offense with people selling sexual acts of, or content of themselves and consenting partners.
It is legitimate work, and should be compensated fairly, etc.But the whole concept of sexually dominating someone via money rubs me the wrong way.
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#TodayILearned ... that there's a #HillFigure map of #Australia, and that the map is, like real Australia, the wrong way up.
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I always thought it was "gotcha" and not gacha.
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TIL about Kiwix thanks to the Fediverse. I’ll use solutions like these someday when, either due to external forces or my own choice, I live in an internet-free home. https://get.kiwix.org
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Ich habe Ratschen-Spanngurte, bei denen ist auf einer Seite ein schwarzer Streifen eingewebt, damit man besser sieht, welche Seite oben ist und ob der Gurt verdreht ist. Fand das immer ganz praktisch.
Weil ich das für die Klemmschloss-Gurte meines #Lastenrad auch wollte habe ich etwas gebastelt.
Einfach zwei passgenaue Schlitze in eine Pappe und davor ein mittiges Loch für einen Edding. Stift aufsetzen und langsam durchziehen. Wie lang's hält wird sich zeigen 🤷♂️
#LifeHack #TIL #TodayILearned -
Today I learned...
I don't know why I never knew this was a thing. But I just discovered you can (and probably should) store a bobbin directly in the underside of the thread spool.Edit: maybe this is just Guttermann thread? Either way, smart.
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TIL: For 30+ years, orange Garfield phones kept washing up on a beach in Brittany, France — no one knew why. In 2019 the mystery was finally solved: a local farmer remembered finding a shipping container full of them, wedged in a sea cave only reachable at low tide, after a 1980s storm. He’d just never told anyone. 🐱📞
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News to me:
Ducks sleep in, while deer are up and roaming about at 6:30. -
@ruemaleficent I already try hard to give every image an descriptive ALT text.
I found the following reason for CamelCase I wasn't aware of: 'suggestion: hashtags are important here. please use “Camel Case” so screen readers understand what the words are and can pronounce them properly.' -- https://gdevops.frama.io/web/fediverse/applis/mastodon/tips/camel_case/camel_case.htmlAlso kudos to @morst for pointing in the right direction. 🙏
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#TodayILearned that baby sea turtles often float about with their front flippers tucked behind their backs and it’s adorable as all heck
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@rahmstorf Thanks for posting this. “Its (Clausius–Clapeyron relation) relevance to meteorology and climatology is the increase of the water-holding capacity of the atmosphere by about 7% for every 1 °C (1.8 °F) rise in temperature” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clausius–Clapeyron_relation #TodayILearned #TIL
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Today I Learned: In the state of Texas, if you pay for medications and take them out of the pharmacy, and later learn you don't need them, you cannot return them to the pharmacy for a refund, even if they are unopened. Now you know too.
Anybody looking for a pharmaceutical-strength laxative? I know a guy.