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Today I learnt what's the difference between sparkling water and soda.
Recently I was invited to a dinner by a friend. And my partner and I were asked to bring sparkling water. After we bought it, the friend corrected herself and asked for soda (she didn't know we already got it).
Neither of us knew what was the difference. We joked soda comes from Soda region and otherwise it's just sparkling water. Anyway, we got soda for the dinner party and ended up taking the bottle of sparkling water home. I don't like sparkling water (it tastes weird), so my partner ended up drinking it.
Today I learnt sparkling water is naturally fizzy while soda is artificially carbonated. That makes me wonder what's the point of soda in the first place, but I digress.
The more you know!
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Did you know that Peru has two vice presidents? #TodayILearnt #PoliticalScience
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Today I learnt that the human eye has a horrible chromatic dispersion (i.e. blue and red light focus at very different places), equivalent to approximately 2 dioptres.
It is amazing we can see anything at all!
(The lesson here is that vision is a LOT more complex than we usually think.)
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@fesshole "Menarche is the first menstrual cycle, or first menstrual bleeding in humans."
#TodayILearned #FessholeExplained #TIL #TodayILearnt -
Today I learnt, that a guy called
Kansan, has for the past nine years, been going through the decades and ranking films by the amount of gravy consumed, cooked or used in in the production of that film.Spoiler: Breaker Morant has the record for the most gravy used in production. The "Pour straight, ya bastards" scene. Lawrence of Arabia kept on laughing, causing the scene to continually be reset. A record 374.4 litres of gravy ended up being used.
He also has a gravy music list. Where he ranks musical instruments by how much gravy they can hold, while still being able to play a recognisable song. Currently the tuba is winning.
His story about trying to rate the gravy capacity of a electric guitar and amp is hilarious.
Every one knows gravy and electricity don't mix.
https://ifyouwantthegravy.wordpress.com/the-ides-of-gravy/“If you want the gravy, you’ve got to get the biscuits.” _
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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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@DToher I... read that as ECJ aka @Curia_fr whose Luxembourg site is definitely suitable for cycling and uh. Yeah. 🤦♀️ Classic #TodayILearnt
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#TodayILearned that there is another sort of prequel to Stephen King's #DarkTower series called "The Little Sisters of Eluria".
Guess I should set aside some time to dive back into the world of Gilead.#StephenKing #FiXatoReads #TIL #TodayILearnt #TheLittleSistersOfEluria
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TIL about an incredible bird called the Arctic Tern, every year it flies from one side of the planet to the other and back again:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_tern
"Recent studies have shown average annual round-trip lengths of about 70,900 km (44,100 mi)"
A bird species that migrates 70,000 kilometres every year! 🤯
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Today I learnt:
By typing the numbers 1 to 9
you can jump to 10% to 90% of a #YouTube video!#todayilearnt #til #video #shortcut #shortcuts #jump #skip #FastForward
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#TodayILearned that the voice actor of #DaddyPig, #RichardRidings, also provides the voice of Sarge in #Quake III Arena, as well as the voice of the Mentor, i.e. the narrator, of #DungeonKeeper.
That just tickles my funny bone. 😂#TIL #QuakeIIIArena #Sarge #voiceActing #voiceActors #TodayILearnt
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dass der #Bikerouter auch die Streckenplanung (per Profil:) "#Eisenbahn" ermöglicht, wie geil ist das denn...
cc @mjaschen
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Docker push with `--all-tags` argument
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#art #graffiti #jankalab #todayilearnt and like it....
https://www.jankalab.com/
>Jan Kaláb belongs to the oldest active generation of graffiti writers in the Czech Republic. Not only does he engage in classic graffiti, with a talent for dynamic, colorful and playful compositions with the nickname CAKES but he also creates many objects and sculptures of various formats in public spaces with the pseudonym POINT. -
#mastodon #todayilearnt
Now I know that a Mastodon was an animal and why mascot is, well a Mastodon I guess.😂Mastodon bones unearthed by Michigan work crew go on display in museum
Mastodon bones unearthed by Michigan work crew go on display in museum https://artifact.news/s/hS_JFjzWGW0=
>A selection of bones belonging to a juvenile mastodon who roamed the woods of Michigan 13,000 years ago is now on display at the Grand Rapids Public Museum, after workers unearthed it by chance last year. -
Word of the day: #Punnet
«A punnet is a small box or square basket for the gathering, transport and sale of fruit and vegetables, typically for small berries susceptible to bruising, spoiling and squashing that are therefore best kept in small rigid containers.»
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#Space #Earth #todayilearnt
As we are about to send the biggest 🚀 ever into Space, I found this a very interesting article. I had no idea we we were sending rockets up in 1946!The first images of Earth are chilling
https://artifact.news/s/zRZ_Sh6Z3F4= -
Wow, the production of traditional artisanal #Sumi ink for Japanese #calligraphy is way more involved than I'd thought: https://youtu.be/GSuFSYY-X9w (or https://youtube.com/shorts/K7cm-8FR_6k if you prefer it in Shorts form...)
From making the fine wicks, to lighting the candles, to collecting the soot, to preparing the animal glue, to kneading all ingredients together, to pressing them into blocks, to pre-drying them with oak ashes, to air-drying them for at least four years, all done by hand.
No wonder these #ink sticks are expensive!#TodayILearned #TodayILearnt #TIL #Japanese #JapaneseCalligraphy #SumiInk #artisanal #art #artSupplies #InsiderBusiness
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Today I learnt that pods in Kubernetes with a volume mount from a secret or configmap retain the value after the resource is deleted.
What's even more interesting... the mounted value will update if the secret / configmap is recreated later with new values. 🤯
Not what I was expecting.
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#TIL l'existence du "Cœur de Voh", en Nouvelle-Calédonie.
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CW: references to alcohol, slang for genitalia, (1300+ chars)
So, lately I've been watching a bunch of #HowToDrink, a show on #YouTube where the host mixes (mostly) alcoholic beverages, as well as describes interesting historical things about the drinks.
As per usual, I watch the show with closed captions on. I think it's mostly auto-generated captions unfortunately.
I've started to notice that it kept censoring 'jigger' or 'jiggers' in it though, which in the show is meant to be a measuring tool, which is pretty clear from the context.
At first I thought it was just the auto-generated captions mishearing the word (though apart from 'frigger', I couldn't really think of what possible 'vulgar' word it could've thought it heard), but it happened so frequently that I decided to look up the word 'jigger' on Wiktionary, and sure enough, under the third #etymology I found a reference to it being a euphemistic slang.
Apparently it can be a reference to either form of genitalia, with it referencing the masculine genital at least being in use since 1931, and the feminine one was quoted in a book from 2002 (though set in 1842).
So, #TheMoreYouKnow. Another example of how #censoring something for possibly being #lewd has resulted in the lewd meaning being looked up where otherwise it had remained hidden. -
Recently I realised that 'bikkje', a #Norwegian word for a dog, is probably related to 'bitch'.
And yes, sure enough, #Wiktionary notes that while the word is currently used for any kind of dog, it used to be used just for female dogs, and is a cognate of #bitch.#TheMoreYouKnow #TodayILearned #TodayILearnt #TIL #bikkje #norsk #etymology #linguistics #language
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#TodayILearnt The framers of the #BrazilianConstitution not only remembered that #SpaceLaw exists but also made legislating it a sole power of the Union (i.e. National Congress).
Source: https://youtu.be/9gmBJWoZ5cA
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#TodayILearnt that you can easily deploy serverless functions in languages other than JavaScript/Typescript on vercel 🤯
#python #vercel #nextjs #go #ruby #nodejs #serverless #functions
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#TodayILearned that apparently #BilliePiper was not told that actual showers would go off in the lift of of the hospital facility of the #DoctorWho episode #NewEearth (#DrWho168S02E01), so her shocked expression when she is getting absolutely soaked as she is getting 'disinfected' is genuine!
Sources:
- Relevant #WhoCulture episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXKmY-NgFzM
- Relevant #Fandom article snippet: > "Billie Piper didn't know she was going to be hit with water in the lift, Russell T Davies kept it in the final cut as he thought it was too funny to cut it."> https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/New_Earth_(TV_story)
#DrWho #BehindTheScenes #SeriesFiXatoWatches #TIL #TodayILearnt