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  1. #TodayILearned

    Zohran Mamdani's mother is Mira Nair, the film director. How did I not know this before?

  2. #TodayILearned

    Zohran Mamdani's mother is Mira Nair, the film director. How did I not know this before?

  3. #TodayILearned

    Zohran Mamdani's mother is Mira Nair, the film director. How did I not know this before?

  4. #HakunaMakarna

    en.wiktionary.org/wiki/makarna

    "Etymology
    Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مقارنه (makarna), from Sicilian maccarruna, the plural of maccarruni." #todayIlEarned #til 💡 Praise1d be #Cryptonai 🙏 💚

  5. #HakunaMakarna

    en.wiktionary.org/wiki/makarna

    "Etymology
    Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مقارنه (makarna), from Sicilian maccarruna, the plural of maccarruni." #todayIlEarned #til 💡 Praise1d be #Cryptonai 🙏 💚

  6. #HakunaMakarna

    en.wiktionary.org/wiki/makarna

    "Etymology
    Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مقارنه (makarna), from Sicilian maccarruna, the plural of maccarruni." #todayIlEarned #til 💡 Praise1d be #Cryptonai 🙏 💚

  7. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/makarna

    "Etymology
    Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مقارنه (makarna), from Sicilian maccarruna, the plural of maccarruni." 💡 Praise1d be 🙏 💚

  8. #HakunaMakarna

    en.wiktionary.org/wiki/makarna

    "Etymology
    Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مقارنه (makarna), from Sicilian maccarruna, the plural of maccarruni." #todayIlEarned #til 💡 Praise1d be #Cryptonai 🙏 💚

  9. @jimniels

    So... yes!

    > The term "smallpox" was first used in England in the 16th century to distinguish [it] from syphilis, which was then known as the "great pox".

    Other names used historically include "speckled monster", and "red plague".

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox

    #nowyouknow #wikipedia #didyouknow #todayilearned

  10. @jimniels

    So... yes!

    > The term "smallpox" was first used in England in the 16th century to distinguish [it] from syphilis, which was then known as the "great pox".

    Other names used historically include "speckled monster", and "red plague".

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox

  11. @jimniels

    So... yes!

    > The term "smallpox" was first used in England in the 16th century to distinguish [it] from syphilis, which was then known as the "great pox".

    Other names used historically include "speckled monster", and "red plague".

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox

    #nowyouknow #wikipedia #didyouknow #todayilearned

  12. @jimniels

    So... yes!

    > The term "smallpox" was first used in England in the 16th century to distinguish [it] from syphilis, which was then known as the "great pox".

    Other names used historically include "speckled monster", and "red plague".

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox

    #nowyouknow #wikipedia #didyouknow #todayilearned

  13. @jimniels

    So... yes!

    > The term "smallpox" was first used in England in the 16th century to distinguish [it] from syphilis, which was then known as the "great pox".

    Other names used historically include "speckled monster", and "red plague".

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox

    #nowyouknow #wikipedia #didyouknow #todayilearned

  14. #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.

    #Mooncakes #MooncakeBackedSecurity

  15. #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.

    #Mooncakes #MooncakeBackedSecurity

  16. #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.

    #Mooncakes #MooncakeBackedSecurity

  17. #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.

    #Mooncakes #MooncakeBackedSecurity

  18. #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.

    #Mooncakes #MooncakeBackedSecurity

  19. Answering the earlier question, the Maldives is apparently the only country on Earth which considers Friday the first day of the week. #TodayILearned #TIL

  20. Answering the earlier question, the Maldives is apparently the only country on Earth which considers Friday the first day of the week. #TodayILearned #TIL

  21. Answering the earlier question, the Maldives is apparently the only country on Earth which considers Friday the first day of the week. #TodayILearned #TIL

  22. Answering the earlier question, the Maldives is apparently the only country on Earth which considers Friday the first day of the week. #TodayILearned #TIL

  23. Answering the earlier question, the Maldives is apparently the only country on Earth which considers Friday the first day of the week. #TodayILearned #TIL

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. #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.

  29. #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.

  30. #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.

  31. #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.

  32. #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.

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. 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

  38. today i learned:

    - ancient mesopotamians (assyrians, sumerians, babylonians) left records of 30 different kinds of cheese and 300 different kinds of bread

    - the construction in the neighborhood which is impinging on us at school quite directly may in fact be completely unpermitted

    - students wish people still wrote letters

    #todayilearned

  39. today i learned:

    - ancient mesopotamians (assyrians, sumerians, babylonians) left records of 30 different kinds of cheese and 300 different kinds of bread

    - the construction in the neighborhood which is impinging on us at school quite directly may in fact be completely unpermitted

    - students wish people still wrote letters

    #todayilearned

  40. today i learned:

    - ancient mesopotamians (assyrians, sumerians, babylonians) left records of 30 different kinds of cheese and 300 different kinds of bread

    - the construction in the neighborhood which is impinging on us at school quite directly may in fact be completely unpermitted

    - students wish people still wrote letters

    #todayilearned

  41. #TodayILearned that the Alsatian Wolf Dog is exactly the same dog breed as the German Shepherd. The Brits called them Alsatians after WW1 to avoid saying the word “German.”

    Edit: WW1!

    #dogs #english #etymology

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_S

  42. #TodayILearned that the Alsatian Wolf Dog is exactly the same dog breed as the German Shepherd. The Brits called them Alsatians after WW1 to avoid saying the word “German.”

    Edit: WW1!

    #dogs #english #etymology

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_S

  43. #TodayILearned that the Alsatian Wolf Dog is exactly the same dog breed as the German Shepherd. The Brits called them Alsatians after WW1 to avoid saying the word “German.”

    Edit: WW1!

    #dogs #english #etymology

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_S

  44. #TodayILearned that the Alsatian Wolf Dog is exactly the same dog breed as the German Shepherd. The Brits called them Alsatians after WW1 to avoid saying the word “German.”

    Edit: WW1!

    #dogs #english #etymology

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_S

  45. #TodayILearned that the Alsatian Wolf Dog is exactly the same dog breed as the German Shepherd. The Brits called them Alsatians after WW1 to avoid saying the word “German.”

    Edit: WW1!

    #dogs #english #etymology

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_S