#TIL that BDSM has its own logo and that it looks strikingly similar to the Department of Transportation logo. Thanks for pointing that out, anonymous driver. I will never unsee it now.

#TIL In early 1939, British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery issued a leaflet warning soldiers about sexually transmitted diseases. The blunt language it used upset religious groups and put his command under serious pressure.

#militaryhistory #worldwarii #battlefields

#TIL A 1904 cookbook offered a “raw beef soup” recipe using raw beef, hydrochloric acid, and water, chilled on ice for 12 hours and served cold. It was intended for invalids needing nourishment.

#books

#TIL Today I learned ... etwas über Mary Parker Follet
im Talk "Deine Organisation als (H)Ort der Demokratie: Idealistische Illusion oder praktische Alternative?" von Jan Krims (Flipping Points) @ #rpvienna #wien #demokratie
sheconomy.media/mary-follett...

#TIL An NFL player drove erratically and crashed his car to avoid being cut from the team after being late to a mandatory meeting.

#nflplayer #nflteam #nfl

Sooooo...

"Cobalt" comes from the word kobalt/kobold in Dutch, because the mineworkers thought those damn mountain spirits messed with their silver as a joke. Hence, Cobalt is now the name of the actual metal lol #TIL #FunFacts #Dutch

#til The first television broadcast to include sound (1930) was based on a 1922 play by Luigi Pirandello about a conversation between a man who has cancer and another who has missed his train. Pirandello won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934.

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RE: https://beep.town/@aws/117369126619290478

#TIL there’s a service name for the standard operating policy

"How peruse got those two meanings is complicated." #TIL

www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/peru...

#TIL
La suite de Fibonacci est utilisée en finance, via le "Fibonacci retracement", pour "help identify strategic places for transactions, stop losses or target prices to help traders get in at a good price".
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#TIL M365 Copilot Researcher agent now invokes GPT-Image to generate infographics in the report output.

#TIL On his first day filming Disney's "The Black Hole", a sci-fi project inspired by Star Wars, Harlen Ellison was fired before lunch. He had proposed the film be a pornographic treatment of iconic Disney characters.

#sci #disney #fi

#TIL During production of Iron Man (2008), the character was so obscure that 30 writers initially refused to work on the project. Even after a script was written, requests for rewrites were repeatedly declined.

#work

#TIL A man with no heirs left more than €10 million to a Normandy village of about 1,800 people he had never visited. The only link found was that the village shared his surname, Thiberville.

#people #lion #nature #ink

A baker's dozen is 13 because of medieval legal paranoia.
​Under the 1266 Assize of Bread, selling underweight loaves could get a baker locked in the pillory. Because wood-fired ovens dried dough erratically, bakers threw in a free 13th vantage loaf as insurance against the magistrate's scale.
#TIL

#TIL 写条上周学到的。David Løberg Code这个人有绝对音准，不算奇事，但他从美国前往挪威后，绝对音准失灵三个月，猜测说可能是因为被电网频率变化影响了：欧洲50 Hz，北美60Hz。三个月后恢复。
友人评：还好没在日本（不同地区电网是分别从美国和欧洲引入的）。

#TIL iOS message 不允许外区帐号与中区帐号发iMessage, 即使发出的信息显示标记为spam，对方的spam也不会收到。即使双方之前在政策生效前有过对话，对话也无法继续。