#todayilearned — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #todayilearned, aggregated by home.social.
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TIL: Here’s a look at the EEWWW! Surprising, shocking, and oddly practical substances secretly shaping what we eat and drink. Crushed insects, fish bladders, and even wood pulp? Some of the food ingredients hiding in everyday eats are stranger than fiction. #foodhistory #Foodculture #FoodCultureBites #FoodIngredients #food
https://foodculturebites.com/whats-really-hiding-in-your-food-ingredients/
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TIL: Here’s a look at the EEWWW! Surprising, shocking, and oddly practical substances secretly shaping what we eat and drink. Crushed insects, fish bladders, and even wood pulp? Some of the food ingredients hiding in everyday eats are stranger than fiction. #foodhistory #Foodculture #FoodCultureBites #FoodIngredients #food
https://foodculturebites.com/whats-really-hiding-in-your-food-ingredients/
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TIL: Here’s a look at the EEWWW! Surprising, shocking, and oddly practical substances secretly shaping what we eat and drink. Crushed insects, fish bladders, and even wood pulp? Some of the food ingredients hiding in everyday eats are stranger than fiction. #foodhistory #Foodculture #FoodCultureBites #FoodIngredients #food
https://foodculturebites.com/whats-really-hiding-in-your-food-ingredients/
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TIL: Here’s a look at the EEWWW! Surprising, shocking, and oddly practical substances secretly shaping what we eat and drink. Crushed insects, fish bladders, and even wood pulp? Some of the food ingredients hiding in everyday eats are stranger than fiction. #foodhistory #Foodculture #FoodCultureBites #FoodIngredients #food
https://foodculturebites.com/whats-really-hiding-in-your-food-ingredients/
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TIL: Here’s a look at the EEWWW! Surprising, shocking, and oddly practical substances secretly shaping what we eat and drink. Crushed insects, fish bladders, and even wood pulp? Some of the food ingredients hiding in everyday eats are stranger than fiction. #foodhistory #Foodculture #FoodCultureBites #FoodIngredients #food
https://foodculturebites.com/whats-really-hiding-in-your-food-ingredients/
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Design- und Farbfreaks stillgestanden!
❓ Was bedeutet eigtl. RAL?
(Ihr wisst schon, Farbfächer und so)Today I learned:
RAL = »Reichs-Ausschuss für Lieferbedingungen« 😮🫡 Rührt Euch!
#TIL #Abkürzung #RAL #Farbe #Design #Color #Farbsystem #Sprache #todayilearned
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@fesshole "Menarche is the first menstrual cycle, or first menstrual bleeding in humans."
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Tajikistan 🧵
GDP: $14.205 billion
What else should you know? 👇
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Tajikistan 🧵
GDP: $14.205 billion
What else should you know? 👇
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Tajikistan 🧵
GDP: $14.205 billion
What else should you know? 👇
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Tajikistan 🧵
GDP: $14.205 billion
What else should you know? 👇
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Tajikistan 🧵
GDP: $14.205 billion
What else should you know? 👇
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OMFG!
I just realized that the fact that sometimes you need to wave 25 times and that the towel kind of crawls out is BECAUSE THE BATTERIES ARE ALMOST EMPTY!
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📊 SOUTH AFRICA
Capital: Pretoria
Population: 61,089,926
GDP per capita: $13,600
Area: 1,219,090 sq km
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Edited to update: AskFedi came up trumps already, thanks @lalah and @tinbromide - apparently they are indeed doll shapes meant for painting! A whole genre was revealed via searching on "Figurenkegel" or "wooden peg dolls". I'd only seen the ones before which are actually made of old-style clothes pegs. #TodayILearned :-)
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What are these little things, does anyone know? Could they be meant as doll makings or game pieces maybe, or do they have some other practical purpose?
(Pen for scale)
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Edited to update: AskFedi came up trumps already, thanks @lalah and @tinbromide - apparently they are indeed doll shapes meant for painting! A whole genre was revealed via searching on "Figurenkegel" or "wooden peg dolls". I'd only seen the ones before which are actually made of old-style clothes pegs. #TodayILearned :-)
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What are these little things, does anyone know? Could they be meant as doll makings or game pieces maybe, or do they have some other practical purpose?
(Pen for scale)
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Edited to update: AskFedi came up trumps already, thanks @lalah and @tinbromide - apparently they are indeed doll shapes meant for painting! A whole genre was revealed via searching on "Figurenkegel" or "wooden peg dolls". I'd only seen the ones before which are actually made of old-style clothes pegs. #TodayILearned :-)
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What are these little things, does anyone know? Could they be meant as doll makings or game pieces maybe, or do they have some other practical purpose?
(Pen for scale)
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Scaphism Explained: Inside the Most Horrifying Ancient Persian Torture Ever Recorded #LearnSomethingNew #TodayILearned #WeirdHistory #CreepyFacts #PersianHistory
#HistoryBuff #FactTok #historytok #DarkTok #educationalcontent https://www.gsnsp.com/scaphism-ancient-persian-torture-milk-honey/ -
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 (₲) -
#TodayILearned Family Video was started in #Springfield #Illinois
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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
Capital: San Juan -
#TodayILearned #TIL ... that you can use combining accents on the # of a #hashtag! For example #̧Cedilla. Why? Because someone, in a heroic feat of #DefensiveProgramming, thought "I bet some #weirdos will do that, I'd better deal with it sensibly". Why would weirdos like me do that? Because we're weirdos!
Also, you can pile them on top of each other! Therefore the official hashtag of #Zalgo is not #Zalgo, it is #̶̧̼͖̖̦͍͉̝̗͐̈́̏͜Zalgo.
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#TodayILearned about table-valued scalar functions in Microsoft #TSql and why I should care.
These can be used in a view. If you need to run a procedure to calculate parts of the output, but use a middleware that is incapable of calling functions directly, scalar functions are your next best bet.If they return their value as a table, you can "join" them to the main rowset in the view using the operations "cross apply" (which behaves like inner join) and "outer apply" (like outer join).
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#TodayILearned that Microsoft #TSql does NOT automatically shave off the trailing spaces of a char-typed value when reading it from a data table and inserting it into a varchar-typed column of a different table. You have to trim it or convert it explicitly. Char data types aim to preserve their padding.
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Sequoyah, inventeur du syllabaire cherokee
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#Juxtaposition refers to the act of placing two or more ideas, characters, themes, or objects side by side to highlight their differences, contrasts, or similarities. This technique is often used in literature, art, and everyday language to create an impactful comparison or to emphasize a particular point or theme.
For example, you might juxtapose light and dark imagery to explore themes of good versus evil. #TodayILearned
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A friend, an actual medical doctor, has just taken up #Warhammer, and posted about it on Facebook. #TodayILearned #TIL that commenting that she might prefer a less expensive and less addictive hobby such as #heroin gets your account banned :-) 💉 Bet that won't happen here because our moderators have the crucial skills of literacy and understanding nuance and context.
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One Weird Choice That Makes Font Sizes Easy
I am not a graphic designer or a musician. My wife, though, graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Music. She also has a bookcase full of graphic design, interaction design, and user experience design books I have largely ignored. She may not be surprised by what I learned today, but I was. Perhaps you will be pleasantly surprised, too. […]https://kerrick.blog/posts/2025/one-weird-choice-that-makes-font-sizes-easy/
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#TodayILearned something I wouldn't have if I watched shows with closed captioning off. In the final episode of the the first season of #GhostsAU, Kate, the woman who can see ghosts, has pre-European ancestry.
Her boyfriend, Sean, has been dithering about proposing since Kate found the ring he'd hidden.¹ So Kate tells the ghosts “Well, just so you know, I'm going to propose.”
The ghosts don't want her to do that, so, babbling, they say “You can't do that! Yeah, you can't because of the patriarchy…”
To which Kate replies, “Well, I'm Blak and we're a matriarchy, so who's coming?”
Some research shows that #Blak is an accepted spelling for the original inhabitants of Australia. #TIL #Ghosts
[1] Actually, Sean did propose when Kate found the ring, but it was rushed and unromantic, so she told him to do it again, but to “make it super soppy, super cringe” and it's the do-over proposal that's been taking time. Sean had arranged a whole song and dance with the ghosts, which Kate proposing would make impossible.
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#TodayILearned something I wouldn't have if I watched shows with closed captioning off. In the final episode of the the first season of #GhostsAU, Kate, the woman who can see ghosts, has pre-European ancestry.
Her boyfriend, Sean, has been dithering about proposing since Kate found the ring he'd hidden.¹ So Kate tells the ghosts “Well, just so you know, I'm going to propose.”
The ghosts don't want her to do that, so, babbling, they say “You can't do that! Yeah, you can't because of the patriarchy…”
To which Kate replies, “Well, I'm Blak and we're a matriarchy, so who's coming?”
Some research shows that #Blak is an accepted spelling for the original inhabitants of Australia. #TIL #Ghosts
[1] Actually, Sean did propose when Kate found the ring, but it was rushed and unromantic, so she told him to do it again, but to “make it super soppy, super cringe” and it's the do-over proposal that's been taking time. Sean had arranged a whole song and dance with the ghosts, which Kate proposing would make impossible.
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#TodayILearned something I wouldn't have if I watched shows with closed captioning off. In the final episode of the the first season of #GhostsAU, Kate, the woman who can see ghosts, has pre-European ancestry.
Her boyfriend, Sean, has been dithering about proposing since Kate found the ring he'd hidden.¹ So Kate tells the ghosts “Well, just so you know, I'm going to propose.”
The ghosts don't want her to do that, so, babbling, they say “You can't do that! Yeah, you can't because of the patriarchy…”
To which Kate replies, “Well, I'm Blak and we're a matriarchy, so who's coming?”
Some research shows that #Blak is an accepted spelling for the original inhabitants of Australia. #TIL #Ghosts
[1] Actually, Sean did propose when Kate found the ring, but it was rushed and unromantic, so she told him to do it again, but to “make it super soppy, super cringe” and it's the do-over proposal that's been taking time. Sean had arranged a whole song and dance with the ghosts, which Kate proposing would make impossible.
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#TodayILearned something I wouldn't have if I watched shows with closed captioning off. In the final episode of the the first season of #GhostsAU, Kate, the woman who can see ghosts, has pre-European ancestry.
Her boyfriend, Sean, has been dithering about proposing since Kate found the ring he'd hidden.¹ So Kate tells the ghosts “Well, just so you know, I'm going to propose.”
The ghosts don't want her to do that, so, babbling, they say “You can't do that! Yeah, you can't because of the patriarchy…”
To which Kate replies, “Well, I'm Blak and we're a matriarchy, so who's coming?”
Some research shows that #Blak is an accepted spelling for the original inhabitants of Australia. #TIL #Ghosts
[1] Actually, Sean did propose when Kate found the ring, but it was rushed and unromantic, so she told him to do it again, but to “make it super soppy, super cringe” and it's the do-over proposal that's been taking time. Sean had arranged a whole song and dance with the ghosts, which Kate proposing would make impossible.
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#TodayILearned something I wouldn't have if I watched shows with closed captioning off. In the final episode of the the first season of #GhostsAU, Kate, the woman who can see ghosts, has pre-European ancestry.
Her boyfriend, Sean, has been dithering about proposing since Kate found the ring he'd hidden.¹ So Kate tells the ghosts “Well, just so you know, I'm going to propose.”
The ghosts don't want her to do that, so, babbling, they say “You can't do that! Yeah, you can't because of the patriarchy…”
To which Kate replies, “Well, I'm Blak and we're a matriarchy, so who's coming?”
Some research shows that #Blak is an accepted spelling for the original inhabitants of Australia. #TIL #Ghosts
[1] Actually, Sean did propose when Kate found the ring, but it was rushed and unromantic, so she told him to do it again, but to “make it super soppy, super cringe” and it's the do-over proposal that's been taking time. Sean had arranged a whole song and dance with the ghosts, which Kate proposing would make impossible.
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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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Today I learned that #Cherenkov radiation is a real life phenomenon, and not a sci-fi gimmick
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Ooooh, #TodayILearned ... that there's a #Chagall #museum in #Nice. I'm sure it's very nice, I need to pay it a visit!
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#MildlyAmusing #TodayILearned "servus" in #Hungarian is spelled "szervusz"
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Today I learned: "China has good regulations but only for products that are sold within China. So it is way safer to order in China towards a freight forwarder insight China than to order directly to your country."
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Jimi Hendrix was a big fan of the long running soap opera Coronation Street, and specifically the character Ena Sharples.
#TodayiLearned
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#TodayILearned about #Chornobyl / #Chernobyl:
The city's name is the same as one of the Ukrainian names for Artemisia vulgaris, mugwort or common wormwood: чорнобиль, chornóbyl' (or more commonly полин звичайний polýn zvycháynyy, 'common artemisia'). The name is inherited from Proto-Slavic *čьrnobylъ or Proto-Slavic *čьrnobyl, a compound of Proto-Slavic *čьrnъ 'black' + Proto-Slavic *bylь 'grass', the parts related to Ukrainian: чорний, romanized: chórnyy, lit. 'black' and било byló, 'stalk', so named in distinction to the lighter-stemmed wormwood A. absinthium.
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl#EtymologyAlso:
In English, the Russian-derived spelling Chernobyl has been commonly used, but some style guides recommend the spelling Chornobyl, or the use of romanized Ukrainian names for Ukrainian places generally.
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#TodayILearned that #Intel actually has the official PCI vendor ID 0x8086 😎
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#TodayILearned the #RollingStones have played #JumpinJackFlash over 1100 times in concert