#todayilearned — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #todayilearned, aggregated by home.social.
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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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I was at a work thing last week in Nîmes.
#DidYouKnow that the word #denim comes from "sergé de Nîmes" where the material was first produced!
Go ahead and amaze your family and friends with that!
#TodayILearned #til
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%AEmesPhoto Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arena_de_Nimes.jpg
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I watched Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! when I was 4-5yrs old. I re-watched the first episode right now, and the main protagonist sounds like Beast Boy from Teen Titans... 👀
so i looked it up,
and I was right.
Both Chihiro and Beast Boy are played by Greg Cipes.
Love when i recognize voices and ppl. #nostalgia #JetX #JetXTVChannel #TV #SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo! #Cartoon #BeastBoy #TodayILearned #Recognized -
Combined Public Service Announcement and Today I Learned: if you have `CLICOLOR=1` on macOS, if you do an `ls` of a directory which is inside iCloud Drive, evicted files (i.e., those that cannot be immediately used, but need to be downloaded first from iCloud) show with a grey background… see below:
First, both files are in iCloud, but not locally available. They have a dotted cloud icons in the iCloud Status field of the Finder window, and a greyed background in the output of the `ls` command.
Second, the `cssday.pdf` file shows a filled circle with a down arrow as part of their iCloud Status, which represents the "Keep Downloaded" option (i.e., the file has been downloaded and is locally available), while the other file keeps the dotted cloud icon. In that case only the `Screenshot…` file is shown as grayed out in the output of `ls`.#PSA #PublicServiceAnnouncement #TIL #TodayILearned #iCloudDrive #Terminal #CLICOLOR
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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
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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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#TodayILearned #TIL #AlmaMater literally means #Nourishing #Mother.
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CW: Pratchett's Good Omens, Pandemic-setting
#TodayILearned that #NeilGaiman wrote a #GoodOmens #sketch between #Aziraphale and #Crowley set during the #pandemic.
#DavidTennant and #MichaelSheen reprised their roles in this short #audioStory accompanied by visuals of cakes and other stuff in Aziraphale's bookstore: https://youtu.be/quSXoj8Kob0I bet #TerryPratchett would've loved it.
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@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