Notices tagged with til, page 5
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!TIL dry counties (counties where the sale of alcohol is banned) have a drunk driving fatality rate ~3.6 times higher than wet counties. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_county#Traveling_to_purchase_alcohol
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!TIL that when washing clothes with modern detergent (!), cold water is just as effective as warm water, while using 75% less energy - https://io9.gizmodo.com/why-are-you-still-washing-your-clothes-in-warm-water-1706931003
But it's recommended to use warm water (>42°C) to kill bacteria from bed clothes and underwear!
#science #lifeprotip
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!TIL Early in life, each #dolphin creates its own unique vocal whistle that gives it an individual identity. Because each whistle is unique, dolphins are able to call to each other by mimicking the whistle of a dolphin they want to communicate with. It's the equivalent of calling each other by name. - https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-23410137 #ethology #biology
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!TIL Flying home via Germany (Berlin) was cheaper than a one-way train - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHM94Wg92T0
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Hmm "Data Transfer Project" https://datatransferproject.dev/ ???? !TIL
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Ha! I knew since long that it is possible, but never found out how. Now !TIL: Getting previously typed complete command lines back from .bash_history by typing the first few characters and then using cursor up/down. This is the solution I found (and already tested; it works): https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5366/command-line-completion-from-command-history/20830#20830
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!TIL that #Swedish blood banks texts donors to notify them whenever their blood helps save a life. - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/25/sweden-blood-donors-text-message_n_7657156.html #Sweden
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!TIL some of the biggest flying birds ever to exist may have lived alongside humans in the Americas, and may have even influenced Native myths. - https://quitter.es/url/1865497
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!TIL that a Spanish government worker was absent from work for six years but continued receiving a salary of $41,500 annually and his bosses only found out when he was eligible for a long service award. He retired in the end. - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/man-skipped-work-for-6-years_us_56c1d32ae4b0b40245c72512
Spanish government in a nutshell
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!TIL: Mit gphoto2 kann man ohne Mounterei die Dateien von einer Canon EOS auf ein Linux-System ziehen. (Using gphoto2 you can fetch the media files from a Canon EOS to a Linux system.)
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!TIL : When Queen Elizabeth visited the set of "Game of Thrones" she refused to sit on the Iron Throne because there is a law disallowing her from sitting on a foreign throne. - https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/news/a33918/queen-elizabeth-iron-throne-snub-explained/ #gameofthrones #got
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!TIL about "STARTTLS Everywhere" by the EFF
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!til pourquoi les islamophobes ont souvent un caractère arabe au bout de leur pseudo sur twitter: https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%86
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!TIL #bees can be blue. Xylocopa caerulea, the blue carpenter bee, is non-aggressive and semi-solitary. They do not build hives like honeybees but instead prefer to live inside dead wood. They live in Southeast Asia, India and Southern China. - http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2018/04/the-blue-carpenter-bee #biology
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!TIL The phrase "cool as a cucumber" is actually a scientific fact: The inside temperature of a cucumber can be up to 20 degrees cooler than the outside air. - https://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/food-nutrition/natural-foods/natural-food-cucumber.htm
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!TIL Walking through a doorway can cause memory lapses. That is why sometimes when we walk into another room, we often forget why we even came there - http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160307-why-does-walking-through-doorways-make-us-forget
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@quenti !TIL https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/tisaner :)
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!TIL: exFAT has been adopted by the SD Card Association as the default file system for SDXC cards larger than 32 GiB. exFAT has been made by Microsoft, and of course it is proprietary. There is even no documentation publicly available. Bad idea, Canon! In Debian, the package exfat-fuse might help. #freesoftware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT
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!TIL "Phan is a static analyzer for PHP": https://github.com/phan/phan
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!TIL about the "Expect-CT" HTTP Header: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Expect-CT
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