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Filing this firmly under "today I learned"!

#TodayILearned

#HakunaMakarna

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 🙏 💚

#HakunaMakarna

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 🙏 💚

#HakunaMakarna

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 🙏 💚

#HakunaMakarna

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 🙏 💚

#HakunaMakarna

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 🙏 💚

📊 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

Jimi Hendrix was a big fan of the long running soap opera Coronation Street, and specifically the character Ena Sharples.
#TodayiLearned
#TrueFacts

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

https://www.project2025.org

Thanks to my 5 year old #BeardGrabber wanting to watch a video from #ActionLab, #TodayILearned a bit about the theoretical concept of #WhiteHoles.

#TIL TodayILearnt #parenting #dadsOfMastodon

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

#TIL I should remember to clear the whiteboard between students.

Had my youngest student today question what the term 'pseudo-penis' was.

Told them it was above their pay grade and was able to distract them with the trumpets I had brought for today's double lesson.

#Biology #AfricanWildlife #Hyena #LaughingHyena #SpottedHyena #Pseudopenis #Trumpet #Tutoring #Whoops #TodayILearned

#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

@dadegroot @piggo oh, and #TodayILearned: #potassium, the common #English word for #Kalium, is derived from #pearlAsh's unpurified form: #potAsh:

<<potassium (n.)
metallic element, 1807, coined by English chemist Sir Humphry Davy from Modern Latin potassa, Latinized form of potash (q.v.). Davy first isolated it from potash. The chemical symbol K is from Latin kalium "potash," from Arabic al-qaliy "the ashes, burnt ashes" (see alkali).>>
https://www.etymonline.com/word/potassium