#TIL what a Kelvin Wave is. If you live in California, you may already know. If you don't know, you should know that #climate change is creating nifty new terms and that the creeping normalization of climate change will probably make "Kelvin Wave" as mundane as "bank bailout" soon.

#TIL In central Europe, some rivers have "hunger stones" – stones carved during droughts to warn future generations that if water levels drop this low again, famine-related hardship will follow.

#history #hts #nes #geography #rope #hip

Heute habe ich gelernt, dass Matcha nicht aus Mate ist, und es hat genau so verblüfft wie dass Sherry keine Kirschen enthält #TIL

#TIL Dead red laws let drivers and motorcyclists go through a red light if the traffic signal can’t detect their vehicle, typically due to a malfunction or obscured sensor.

#deadredlaw #signal #golang

Why Mad Magazine used type instead of hand lettering: www.newsfromme.com/2026/09/27/a...

#TIL #comics

#TIL: kernklok! ~ "laat toe om de lasers samen met het fluoridekristal en de nodige elektronica te integreren op chips waardoor het ganse systeem de grote van een bankkaart zal hebben." 😲
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Yeah i had to as well. #TIL

Suzuka Circuit can push an F1 car, and its driver to their limits. What do you think?🤔 #f1 #formula1 #til #Suzuka

#TIL At Katz's Delicatessen in NYC, you receive a ticket when you enter. If you lose it, a $50 fee is added to your order cost.

#delicatessen

#TIL of the term #cephalophore, "head-carrier", a term used to describe depictions of a Xian saint carrying their own severed head.

Well, surely that term can also apply to #fursuiters who brief doff their headwear to cool off.

#TIL the world’s smallest parrot is the buff-faced pygmy parrot, found in Papua New Guinea. To give an idea of scale, they’re slightly smaller than a Eurasian wren. They live in burrows, eat lichen and — as far as every photos I’ve found suggests — are in to […]

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#TIL #niri: https://github.com/niri-wm/niri#video-demo - scrolling+tiling, interesting idea. Does require #Wayland but, idk man, aren't we far enough along yet that one can at least /try/ to go full Wayland these days? (he says, from the sidelines, having last used desktop Linux as a daily […]

#TIL A three‑storey, castle‑like fortress rises straight from the middle of the Sahara Desert. Built into the dunes, its origins and builders remain unknown.

#nes #fortress #castle #ema #sahara

OK, I am hereby retracting the previous statement, as apparently mille-feuille is defined as having exactly three layers of pâte feuilletée and two layers of crème pâtissière (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mille-f...), and not a variable number as I had previously and erroneously assumed. #TIL

#TIL When King Philip IV of France pressured the Knights Templar, King Denis of Portugal allowed them to reform as the Military Order of Christ.

#military #hts #history

#til
Fossa!

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Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: From needles in haystacks to a six-dollar chicken, a rainy arcade, a perfect circle, and the invisible force with a mysterious effect on aging.. #storytelling #leadership #til https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-9-27-26/

#TIL Vin Diesel asked Universal not to make a sequel to The Fast and the Furious because he thought sequels might hurt the first film’s chance of becoming a classic.

#classicfilm #vindiesel #thefastandthefurious