#todayilearned — Public Fediverse posts
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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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Lithuania 🧵
Population: 2,815,687
What else should you know? 👇
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📊 BANGLADESH
Capital: Dhaka
Population: 174,370,536
GDP per capita: $8,500
Area: 148,460 sq km
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Burundi 🧵
Population: 13,590,102
What else should you know? 👇
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Tajikistan 🧵
GDP: $14.205 billion
What else should you know? 👇
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📊 SOUTH AFRICA
Capital: Pretoria
Population: 61,089,926
GDP per capita: $13,600
Area: 1,219,090 sq km
Currency: South African rand (R) -
Mauritius
Population: 1,311,375
GDP per capita: $27,300
Capital: Port Louis -
📊 PARAGUAY
Capital: Asunció
Population: 7,604,044
GDP per capita: $16,300
Area: 406,752 sq km
Currency: Paraguayan guaraní (₲) -
Malaysia
Population: 34,905,275
GDP per capita: $34,100
Capital: Kuala Lumpur -
📊 CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE)
Capital: Brazzaville
Population: 6,097,665
GDP per capita: $6,200
Area: 342,000 sq km
Currency: Central African CFA franc (Fr)https://openfactbook.org/countries/congo-brazzaville/
#CongoBrazzaville #WorldNews #GlobalData #Facts #TodayILearned
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Puerto Rico
Population: 2,984,841
GDP per capita: $44,100
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Today I learned that Errol Flynn was a Tasmanian.
#Hollywood #ErrolFlynn #Film #MovieStars #Tasmania #Australia #TIL #TodayILearned
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TIL that "went" is the past tense of "wend".
#Linguistics #Grammar #TodayILearned #EnglishGrammar #HistoryOfLanguage
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Just when I was feeling happy about the White House Correspondents Dinner, #TIL #TodayILearned that there is 900 page document Trump is working from to completely #dismantle the #government.
I think I had heard about the document before, but I didn’t realize the detail, nor that #Trump uses it for much of his policy.
#Project2025 - Wikipedia
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Today I learned:
"Long time no see" originated in the United States as "a jocular imitation of broken English."
"Long time no see" is similar to the Chinese phrase 好久不 見 (Mandarin traditional), 好 耐 冇 見 (Cantonese), 好久不见 (Mandarin simplified), meaning "haven't seen [you] in a long time", further meaning "we have not seen each other in a long time".
Similarly, "Look-see" is also attributed to Chinese pidgin English by the Oxford English dictionary.
How did I come across this, you may ask?
Because I found myself saying the phrase "No tickee, no shirtee!" to my children, because I grew up hearing it, and never thought anything of it, and thought - maybe I should look that up, because it's probably racist. And it was:
"No ____, no ____" predates the origin of Chinese Pidgin English, but is also a notable example of fabricated pidgin English: (沒 票 沒 襯衣) meaning "If you don't have a laundry receipt, I won't give you your shirts", said to be a fabricated pidgin English inaccurately attributed to the Chinese laundry proprietors.
In 1886, a New York City bill cited this phrase in reference to Chinese-owned dry cleaning establishments.
In 1921 a movie titled "No Tickee No Shirtee" further popularized the saying.
Another famous use of this phrase is "No money, no talk" (冇錢冇得傾 (Cantonese)), which simply means "If you don't have the money, don't try to bargain with me".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Pidgin_English
#todayilearned #racism #chinese #asian #anti-asian #laundry #etymology #casualracism #smartereveryday #notickeenoshirtee #longtimenosee #looksee
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#TodayILearned that #GhoulPatrol technically is not a sequel to #ZombiesAteMyNeighbors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC-97bsYBZc
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#TodayILearned that you can actually still order #DawnOfMana for the #PS2 from the #SquareEnix store o_O
https://store.na.square-enix-games.com/en_US/product/282609/dawn-of-mana-ps2#TIL #RetroGaming #Gaming #PS2Gaming #SecretOfMana #ManaSeries
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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.