Today I learned
TIL Henry Ford was sued for libel by a Jewish farming co-op after publishing in the Dearborn Independent that the co-op was a front for a Jewish conspiracy to monopolize American agriculture. The libel suit led Ford to issue a retraction and public apology, and the Dearborn Independent folded.
https://www.michbar.org/journal/pdf/pdf4article2163.pdf
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1heuit1/til_henry_ford_was_sued_for_libel_by_a_jewish/
Today I learned
TIL Game of Thrones became the most pirated TV show in history, with the season 7 finale streamed or downloaded over 1 billion times. By season 8, illegal viewership doubled legal numbers with 55M downloads for the premiere. HBO eventually embraced the piracy buzz, calling it a “free-to-play” model.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1heir8m/til_game_of_thrones_became_the_most_pirated_tv/
Today I learned
TIL of the Casuarina (she-oak/Australian pine), a tree that looks like a pine tree with its needle-like leaves but is actually a flowering plant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casuarina
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1heagqt/til_of_the_casuarina_sheoakaustralian_pine_a_tree/
Today I learned
TIL that we humans are closer related to fungi than to plants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opisthokont
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1hdwivq/til_that_we_humans_are_closer_related_to_fungi/
Today I learned
TIL in 1933 there was an alleged conspiracy by wealthy businessmen to stage a coup against FDR and install a Marine Corps general as dictator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1hdhmx3/til_in_1933_there_was_an_alleged_conspiracy_by/
Tim Schilling
#TIL how to use browser developer tools across all tabs in FF.
CMD/CTRL + SHIFT + J
Then enable the network monitoring. Now you can see all those pesky requests that use target=_blank
Today I learned
Today I Learned that there is a myth in Iceland about the Yule Cat. He eats people that don't get new clothes for Christmas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_cat
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1h6624c/today_i_learned_that_there_is_a_myth_in_iceland/
Today I learned
TIL A Blue Whale Eats 1 million calories on average daily
https://wellwisp.com/how-many-calories-does-a-blue-whale-eat/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1hcm2v2/til_a_blue_whale_eats_1_million_calories_on/
Today I learned
TIL instruments found in King Tutankhamun's tomb were played on a BBC radio broadcast in 1939 after a silence of over 3000 years
https://youtu.be/Qt9AyV3hnlc
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1h9rwbd/til_instruments_found_in_king_tutankhamuns_tomb/
Strypey
#TIL that you can subscribe to a Mastodon feed using an RSS reader, or even a podcast listening app like AntennaPod. Although that only shows OPs to the feed, not replies or comments. I'm not up on RSS readers and whether they can display fediverse threads.
Anyway, this is just another demonstration of a) the value of open standards, and b) the way different standards can be combined, forming a unified social media space with many ways in
(1/?)
Today I learned
TIL the HJ Heinz Company was heavily into pickle production in the early 1900’s. So much so that they patented and used a specialized Pickle Tank rail car for shipping pickles.
https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/163894/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1h7evuq/til_the_hj_heinz_company_was_heavily_into_pickle/
Today I learned
TIL There exists a fungus that thrives in the most radioactive parts of Chernobyl and on the highly radioactive interior of the ISS. Scientists are exploring using this fungus for long distance space travel missions.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.16.205534v7.full.pdf
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1h6u03m/til_there_exists_a_fungus_that_thrives_in_the/
Today I learned
TIL a bank clerk dozed off with his finger on the keyboard and accidentally transferred 222,222,222.22 euros instead of 64.20 euros. His supervisor did not notice the error, approved the transaction, and was fired. The next year, a German labour court ruled the supervisor was unfairly dismissed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-22850791
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1h6thy2/til_a_bank_clerk_dozed_off_with_his_finger_on_the/
Today I learned
TIL in 2015, Delta Airlines released an in-flight safety video featuring twenty-five characters from early 2010s internet memes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vttuonfu2BM
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1h5ysl9/til_in_2015_delta_airlines_released_an_inflight/
Ed Summers
#TIL at #loco2024 that the #bbc has a Sustainable Engineering Team. Of course they do. 🙌
Evan Prodromou
#TIL that macOS comes with Apache pre-installed.
100 Tax Challenger
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/11/01/fosdem-2025-social-web-devroom-call-for-participation/
The thing that implements "More from" <user>, is from the blog post "Highlighting journalism on Mastodon" but the technology itself, can I read more about it elsewhere?
<meta name="fediverse:creator" content="@Gargron" />
Is this tech called #FediverseCreator "Fediverse Creator"? Emphasis on the name so I know how people promote the tech. I love "More from"!
You are the author of ActivityPub, #TIL, that's amazing.
Today I learned
TIL in 2016, a man deleted his open-source Javascript package, which consisted of only 11 lines of code. Because this packaged turned out to be a dependency on major software projects, the deletion caused service disruptions across the internet.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/03/how-11-lines-of-code-broke-tons-sites.html
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1h2uj2i/til_in_2016_a_man_deleted_his_opensource/
Today I learned
TIL about Westward Ho! in England and Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! in Quebec, the only towns in the world with exclamation marks in their names.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Louis-du-Ha!_Ha!
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1h2ozr5/til_about_westward_ho_in_england_and/
Today I learned
TIL about Gullah language - a English Creole spoken by the African American Gullah people with 300 fluent native speakers and 5000 semi-fluent speakers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gullah_language
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1h2jddw/til_about_gullah_language_a_english_creole_spoken/
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