Notices tagged with til, page 5

TIL the full government name of Bruno Mars is Peter Gene Hernandez

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Mars
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1rig511/til_the_full_government_name_of_bruno_mars_is/

TIL that the longest-named dinosaur is the Micropachycephalosaurus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropachycephalosaurus
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1rielxd/til_that_the_longestnamed_dinosaur_is_the/

TIL the son of Queen Victoria's 8th son was an important figure in the Nazi party and a member of Reichstag from 1936 to 1945

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Edward,_Duke_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1rijoef/til_the_son_of_queen_victorias_8th_son_was_an/

TIL pelicans are huge (up to 6ft/183cm)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelican
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1rikna4/til_pelicans_are_huge_up_to_6ft183cm/

TIL: The Great Khan had a silver tree that dispensed 4 types of alcohol so that he never ran out.

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2021/01/the-silver-tree-of-karakorum.html#:~:text=There%20was%20to%20be%20no,away%20at%20the%20Genghis%20dynasty.
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ril7nv/til_the_great_khan_had_a_silver_tree_that/

#TIL Convert a video to black-and-white in ffmpeg by simulating the "connecting only the Y cable to the TV" trick. Unlike other filters, it doesn't waste CPU time on unneeded processing:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf extractplanes=y output.mp4

TIL the creator of Little Nemo also created a comic strip aimed at adults where a character would eat a Welsh Rarebit (open faced grilled cheese) and then would be subjecting with absurdist, dark dreams until he woke up. This was 1904.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_of_the_Rarebit_Fiend
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1rho3ox/til_the_creator_of_little_nemo_also_created_a/

TIL the Rolls-Royce Phantom's 4-wheel steering turns the rear wheels counter to the front wheels at speeds lower than 60kmh to improve maneuverability. Between 60-80kmh the rear wheels don't steer at all. Over 80kmh the rear wheels turn in the same direction as the front wheels for better stability

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Phantom_VIII
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1rhfcru/til_the_rollsroyce_phantoms_4wheel_steering_turns/

TIL lobsters are biologically immortal - they don't age and can theoretically live forever, but die from exhaustion during molting as they grow larger, not from old age

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/are-lobsters-immortal.html
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1rgwijt/til_lobsters_are_biologically_immortal_they_dont/

#TIL about the #KeepAndroidOpen campaign;

https://keepandroidopen.org/

For anyone who doesn't know yet, Goggle are planning to centralise control over Android app developers. In a similar way to what grApple are doing in malicious compliance with the EU requirement to allow other app install methods on iThings.

More details about what's happening and what you can do at the link above.

#Android #enshittification

TIL that the Switzerlands largest supermarket Migros, doesn’t sell alcohol or tobacco in stores, pays no dividends, caps profits by lowering prices if earnings exceeds 5%, is a cooperative with 2M+ members, and donates 1% of revenue to social projects, purely out of the founders moral philosophy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migros
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1rfaq9y/til_that_the_switzerlands_largest_supermarket/

#TIL that podcastindex.org has its own fediverse service at;

https://podcastindex.social/

Also, you can find and follow podcasts from their index from your fediverse app. Put this into the search bar to get a sense of the volume of new hotness this adds to the fediverse.

@ap.podcastindex.org

The only thing that would improve this is naming the podcast actors @NameOfPodcast, rather than @StringOfRandomDigits. So they can be easily identified.

@adam

#podcasting #PodcastIndex

TIL it rained spiders in Australia in 1974

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/05/18/spiders-rain-australian-town-goulburn_n_7305192.html
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1rexm9p/til_it_rained_spiders_in_australia_in_1974/

TIL The "Asoh Defense" refers to the legendary 1968 incident where Japan Airlines Captain Kohei Asoh candidly admitted, "As you Americans say, I f---ed up," after mistakenly landing his DC-8 jet in San Francisco Bay. By taking full, immediate responsibility without excuses, he set a gold standard

https://mentourpilot.com/the-asoh-defense-as-you-americans-say-i-up/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1rex9sl/til_the_asoh_defense_refers_to_the_legendary_1968/

TIL about Lodoicea maldivica, a palm tree with seeds that can weigh up to 55 pounds, and fruit that can weigh up to 100 pounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodoicea
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1rem4vs/til_about_lodoicea_maldivica_a_palm_tree_with/

TIL that when the year 2022 began, many systems using 32-bit integers encountered problems, which are now collectively known as the Y2K22 bug. Systems using an integer to represent a 10 character date-based field, where the leftmost two characters are the 2-digit year, ran into an issue on 1 January

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem#Year_2022_problem
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1reaqbk/til_that_when_the_year_2022_began_many_systems/

TIL that Göbekli Tepe in Turkey is the world’s oldest known megalithic structure, dating back to 9500 BCE. Built by hunter-gatherers 6,000 years before Stonehenge, it challenges the theory that agriculture was a prerequisite for the construction of complex monumental complexes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1re9yfi/til_that_göbekli_tepe_in_turkey_is_the_worlds/

TIL about Bohemian Club, an exclusive, private San Francisco-based men's club founded in 1872, with past members like George H Bush and Henry Kissinger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Club
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1rdmlue/til_about_bohemian_club_an_exclusive_private_san/

#TIL there is a limerick about klein bottles:
A mathematician named Klein
Thought the Möbius band was divine.
Said he: "If you glue
The edges of two,
You'll get a weird bottle like mine."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle
#poetry #KleinBottle #Math

TIL, the 60’s TV series Wild Wild West, known as a pioneering influence on the Steampunk genre, was cancelled in spite of excellent ratings due to pressure from Congress over the show’s violence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Wild_West
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1rbav60/til_the_60s_tv_series_wild_wild_west_known_as_a/