#TIL #Malfoid

#HarryPotter

#TIL: Es gibt jetzt den Beruf "Fachinformatiker/in Daten- und Prozessanalyse". Das sollten #DH Zentren vielleicht auch im Blick haben (und der Person im Toot vielleicht helfen?).

#TIL onos, noun.

Synonym of epinetron

(Uh … thanks?)

#TIL Researchers studying the Blue Zone, areas where people live exceptionally long, found that longevity often comes not from strict diet or exercise habits, but from simple, low-tech community practices.

#community #longevity #health

#TIL The Tsar Bomba was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated, but it produced relatively little nuclear fallout compared to other bombs of its era.

#nuclear #tsarbomba #fallout

#TIL Napoleon III escaped from a life-sentence fortress by disguising himself as a laborer, carrying a large plank over his shoulder to conceal his face, and six years later became Emperor of France.

#napoleoniii

#TIL Das "Derby of love" in #Wien wurde eher von den Medien zu einem solchen hochstilisiert, ein Aufeinandertreffen in Zukunft wäre ggf. gar nicht mehr so von gegenseitiger Liebe geprägt. 😮 (Gewaltfrei und respektvoll natürlich schon, qua den "Statuen" der Freund*innen der Friedhofstribüne)

#EU #Europe #tourism #map #interesting #til

https://www.lot.com/us/en/explore/inspirations/aviation-trivia/what-are-winglets

Although I have wondered before about the upturned tips on the wings of commercial aircraft, it's only today that I have learned of the function and history of the winglet.

#TIL #Winglet #Aviation #Aircraft […]

#TIL When water falls on Triple Divide Peak in Montana, it can flow to the Pacific, Atlantic, or Arctic Oceans, making it the hydrological apex of North America, where a single raindrop can reach all three oceans.

#nature #history

#TIL: The auto industry, where I worked as a sysadmin for most of a decade, has promulgated sets of coding practices for C and C++ designed to produce safe, secure, high-quality code. MISRA.

This explains some things I didn't entirely understand, such as how it is that the world at large writes […]

#TIL A man named Frank built a wall along New Zealand’s Alpine Fault in the South Island to test whether earthquakes there are frequent and minor or rare and large. The wall hasn’t shifted at all in 64 years.

#geography #interesting

#TIL A magnitude 8 earthquake on New Zealand’s Alpine Fault has a roughly 75 % chance of occurring within the next 50 years.

#earthquake #naturaldisaster #seismic

#TIL about the "gast" part. Thanks!