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  1. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/makarna

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

  2. #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 🙏 💚

  3. #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 🙏 💚

  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. 📊 BANGLADESH

    Capital: Dhaka
    Population: 174,370,536
    GDP per capita: $8,500
    Area: 148,460 sq km
    Currency: Bangladeshi taka (৳)

    openfactbook.org/countries/ban

    #Bangladesh #WorldNews #GlobalData #Facts #TodayILearned

  7. 📊 SOUTH AFRICA

    Capital: Pretoria
    Population: 61,089,926
    GDP per capita: $13,600
    Area: 1,219,090 sq km
    Currency: South African rand (R)

    openfactbook.org/countries/sou

    #SouthAfrica #WorldNews #GlobalData #Facts #TodayILearned

  8. 📊 PARAGUAY

    Capital: Asunci&oacute
    Population: 7,604,044
    GDP per capita: $16,300
    Area: 406,752 sq km
    Currency: Paraguayan guaraní (₲)

    openfactbook.org/countries/par

    #Paraguay #WorldNews #GlobalData #Facts #TodayILearned

  9. 📊 CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE)

    Capital: Brazzaville
    Population: 6,097,665
    GDP per capita: $6,200
    Area: 342,000 sq km
    Currency: Central African CFA franc (Fr)

    openfactbook.org/countries/con

    #CongoBrazzaville #WorldNews #GlobalData #Facts #TodayILearned

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

  11. Today I Learned something, and I want to make a Public Service Announcement: you can create a link that pre-populates fields in Jira before you submit them!

    If your server is jira.example.com, then you can use `CreateIssueDetails!init.jspa` with a URL that has the different fields in it.

    For instance:

    jira.alma.cl/secure/CreateIssu

    Would create an issue with summary "Please enter your ticket summary" in the project whose `pid` is 1234, of the type encoded by `issuetype=2`, and values for the custom fields encoded by 11011 and 11013 with the options set by values 1011 and 12013, respectively, with the priority encoded by value 5.

    You need to find the values for those options custom fields by looking, for instance, at the XML export of a ticket you want to use as template.

    For instance, if there is a ticket jira.example.com/browse/EXAMPL, you can export it to XML, and look for `project id`, and the number after it is what you have to put after `pid`. Then look for the name of other custom fields, and use the content of the `customfield id` that provides it, and equal it to the value of `customfieldvalue key`.

    And for priority, use the value after `priority id` that matches the priority that you want.

    Hope that's useful!

    #TIL #PSA #TodayILearned #PublicServiceAnnouncement #Jira #Atlassian #AtlassianJira #Template

  12. 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".

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_

    #todayilearned #racism #chinese #asian #anti-asian #laundry #etymology #casualracism #smartereveryday #notickeenoshirtee #longtimenosee #looksee

  13. Stumbled across a fascinating YouTube channel about national parks (worldwide), and #TodayILearned that the US National Park Service brochure employs a design system called the #Unigrid, designed by none other than #MassimoVignelli, who said it was one of the most important projects he ever worked on -

    nps.gov/subjects/hfc/a-brief-h

    For some great throwback design, scroll down to 1965 on this list of old NPS brochure designs.

    nps.gov/parkhistory/online_boo

  14. Stumbled across a fascinating YouTube channel about national parks (worldwide), and #TodayILearned that the US National Park Service brochure employs a design system called the #Unigrid, designed by none other than #MassimoVignelli, who said it was one of the most important projects he ever worked on -

    nps.gov/subjects/hfc/a-brief-h

    For some great throwback design, scroll down to 1965 on this list of old NPS brochure designs.

    nps.gov/parkhistory/online_boo

  15. Stumbled across a fascinating YouTube channel about national parks (worldwide), and #TodayILearned that the US National Park Service brochure employs a design system called the #Unigrid, designed by none other than #MassimoVignelli, who said it was one of the most important projects he ever worked on -

    nps.gov/subjects/hfc/a-brief-h

    For some great throwback design, scroll down to 1965 on this list of old NPS brochure designs.

    nps.gov/parkhistory/online_boo

  16. Stumbled across a fascinating YouTube channel about national parks (worldwide), and #TodayILearned that the US National Park Service brochure employs a design system called the #Unigrid, designed by none other than #MassimoVignelli, who said it was one of the most important projects he ever worked on -

    nps.gov/subjects/hfc/a-brief-h

    For some great throwback design, scroll down to 1965 on this list of old NPS brochure designs.

    nps.gov/parkhistory/online_boo

  17. Stumbled across a fascinating YouTube channel about national parks (worldwide), and #TodayILearned that the US National Park Service brochure employs a design system called the #Unigrid, designed by none other than #MassimoVignelli, who said it was one of the most important projects he ever worked on -

    nps.gov/subjects/hfc/a-brief-h

    For some great throwback design, scroll down to 1965 on this list of old NPS brochure designs.

    nps.gov/parkhistory/online_boo

  18. @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).>>
    etymonline.com/word/potassium