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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

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

#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.

#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.

#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.

#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.

#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.

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...

#TIL
#TodayILearned

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...

#TIL
#TodayILearned

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...

#TIL
#TodayILearned

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...

#TIL
#TodayILearned

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...

#TIL
#TodayILearned

Winding a longer skein of yarn with just your body. In case the niddy-noddy is not at hand.

Extremely cool.

#fiberarts @fiberarts #knitting @knitting #todayilearned #SpinningYarn

Easy, gadget free, skein winding trick!
https://youtu.be/vqBV1WxmFEo

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