Notices tagged with til
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!TIL that zucchini is an immature `marrow': https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrow_(vegetable)
Had to look that up to make sense out of a track on Andrew Liles' album, `Ouarda': https://www.andrewliles.com/discography/andrew-liles-ouarda-the-subtle-art-of-phyllorhodomancy/
https://status.hackerposse.com/url/22914
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedbag
Not much of an alternative to a https://www.etsy.com/market/nose_mitten
Looking at the nose mitten photos on DuckDuckGo, they resemble smaller, nose-only COVID-19 face masks. Marking “nose mitten” as #TIL.
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#TIL: MOS Burger is the 2nd largest franchised chain in Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Burger
Previously, I wasn't even aware they existed.
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#TIL: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/22406 (Australian Copperhead Snake) "Austrelaps is a genus of venomous elapid snakes native to the relatively fertile, temperate, southern and eastern part of the Australian continent. Three species are currently recognized, with no subspecies. They are commonly called copperheads or Australian copperheads. They are not closely related to…
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#TIL: The 27th Amendment to the US Constitution took over 200 years to pass. The push to get it done came about because of a bad grade on a college paper. https://www.npr.org/2017/05/05/526900818/the-bad-grade-that-changed-the-u-s-constitution [www npr org]
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#TIL: #W3CDTF date format: https://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime ( a subset, or profile, of #ISO-8601 )
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#TIL: Hill Sphere ( Roche Sphere ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_sphere ... part of the late night explorations.
This is something I had thought about before, but not in sufficient detail to have the concept crystallize.
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#TIL: Gravity keyhole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_keyhole and Roche limit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit
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#TIL: “Ukraine” is the English transliteration of “Україна”, pronounced oo-CRAY-yee-nah
I just assumed that we pronounced it the same as they did.
Also, there used to be some Ukrainian families (refugees) living nearby in the 1990s. I really enjoyed the sound of their language when they spoke to one another. I have not heard it since then.
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#TIL: “Moolean” https://nu.federati.net/url/273952
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Those commercials were years before I ever even heard of Garth Brooks. Wow. I'm surprised. #TIL also.
(For me, if I'm ever looking back trying to figure out what I learned today, http://moodpoint.com/lyrics/garth_brooks/dr_pepper_commercial.html ... see thread )
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#TIL about #jq ... like #awk, #sed, #grep, except specialized for #JSON data. https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
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#TIL: Window tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax
(Not Windows tax; I have known of that for years.)
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#TIL: A certain sect of Jews was sometimes exempted from Russia's anti-Jewish laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaite_Judaism
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#TIL: Brushing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushing_(e-commerce)
Thanks, @guizzy
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#TIL: dik-dik, a small antelope from East Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dik-dik
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#TIL: Boogaloo Boys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_movement
Uh oh. Another group of potentially violent extremists.
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@mangeurdenuage I did not know chicken eat mice. #TIL.
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#TIL: Angular's web-server doesn't deal with networking like #nginx or #apachehttpd (both of which work fine on test server).
I learned that working on https://github.com/Faldrian/bandcamp-scraper
I also learned that #CouchDB is a PITA. I probably could have figured it out, but it isn't high on the "must learn" list.