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Today I Learned (TIL) !til@lemmy.ca
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TIL one of the most famous musical instrument companies primarily runs on open source software out of pure spite (www.cnet.com) 31 quill7513 267 »
TIL Kondiaronk was maybe the most brilliant political operator in (pre-)Canadian history (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca) 0 m0darn 7 »
TIL the fediverse isn't safe from the EU after all (boingboing.net) 1 PatrickStar 15 »
TIL critical review in Amnesty International is more optional than in other rights groups (www.standard.co.uk) 0 PatrickStar 3 »
TIL that Ali G did the commencement speech at Harvard in 2004 NSFW (www.youtube.com) 0 pelespirit 17 »
TIL - B&W was switched to color TV by a button in a lot of countries. Australia, I don't know what you were up to. (www.memedroid.com) 8 pelespirit 71 »
[TIL] Meta (Facebook) wasn't happy with the Brazilian govt holding back Whatsapp Pay in favor of PIX 1 I Cast Fist 26 »
[TIL] Embyopteras, tiny insects, create super fine silk strands and are responsible for webbings I used to think was made by spiders (en.wikipedia.org) 2 I Cast Fist 64 »
TIL Fred Trump, who was Donald Trump's father, wore a Hitler moustache. (lemmy.world)
[ Goto page: 1, 2 ] 		55 Taalnazi 167 »
til Nikolaus Riehl, a Nazi scientist recruited by the USSR, released from Soviet custody, and awarded the Stalin Prize among others (en.wikipedia.org) 2 lumpenproletariat 11 »
TIL one of the Marlboro Men was named Dick Hammer (lemmy.world) 2 cm0002 32 »
TIL that Phosphenes (the visual effect that you get when you rub your eyes) can also be triggered by magnetic brain stimulation, which has been experimentally used for brain-to-brain information transfer 2 Wildmimic 27 »
TIL about Trans Australia Airlines Flight 408 where in 1960 an Australian pilot punched an armed hijacker and disarmed his bomb (en.wikipedia.org) 4 π™ˆπ™žπ™– 71 »
TIL about CAPTCHA farms: AI pays humans pennies to prove they’re human (www.youtube.com) 0 cm0002 18 »
The third highest-ranking person (highest-ranking woman) in the Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy is a high-ranking Chinese cadre and has, as a result, been accused of "collaborating" with China (en.wikipedia.org) 0 cm0002 16 »
Today I learned that the motto of the Habsburg Monarchy was A.E.I.O.U. (Austriae est imperare orbi universo (All the world is subject to Austria)) (en.wikipedia.org) 4 cm0002 23 »
TIL that most phone calendars lets them change your input and contact people without your permission-even most fdroid apps (f-droid.org) 2 pelespirit 35 »
The gratitude story "A Glass of Milk" that impacting me from childhood till now is half-real 4 Anonymous_Chinese 7 »
Keith Richards wrote 'I Can't Get No Satisfaction' in his sleep (en.wikipedia.org) 1 cm0002 24 »
TIL that flint stone is a biogenic rock, which means it was created from organisms (geomusings.org) 2 tomiant 30 »
TIL that Fibonacci used his famous sequence to try to calculate the population growth of rabbits (bun alert?) (en.wikipedia.org) 1 cm0002 40 »
TIL that the population of Israel is less than 10 million (en.wikipedia.org) 20 tomiant 50 »
walker texas ranger is in the same universe as martial law. 0 HubertManne 2 »
TIL github doesnt support IPv6 (github.com) 2 cm0002 16 »
TIL there's a remote Amazonian language that's so hardwired for empiricism that it disproves the logic of people who complain about sealioners (www.youtube.com) 9 PatrickStar -5 »
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About this forum

You learn something new every day; what did you learn today?

/c/til is a community for any true knowledge that you would like to share, regardless of topic or of source.

Share your knowledge and experience!

Rules

  • Information must be true
  • Follow site rules
  • No, you don't have to have literally learned the fact today
  • Posts must be about something you learned
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