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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

ul•tra•cre•pi•dar•i•an
adjective

"giving opinions on subjects the speaker knows nothing about"

I like this one, because 'ultra-' makes it sound like a compliment!

related: ultracrepidarianism

#TIL #words #trivia #vocabulary #snark #english

#TIL Giancarlo Esposito had never seen Breaking Bad when offered the Gus Fring role and didn’t want a simple guest appearance. Vince Gilligan pitched the idea of Gus “hiding in plain sight,” which convinced him to join.

#giancarloesposito #breakingbad #gusfring

#TIL eristic, adjective.

Controversial, misleading, and often unsound arguments usually made for the sake of sowing discord.

#TIL there is a package manager for Windows. Whoa!

#TIL Marvel secured permission from Thomas the Tank Engine’s rights holders to include Thomas in Ant-Man, but with strict conditions: Thomas could not run over characters, could not be portrayed as evil, and could not take sides in the battle.

#man #marvel #hts #ant

#TIL that the first known birthday party occurred nearly a millennium before the first chicken was domesticated.

I got that wrong, but did not cry fowl.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#TIL Here’s the trick to estimate birthday candle wattage…you know, should it ever come up:

- A thin birthday candle is about 6 cm long and 4 mm across, so a tad under a cubic centimetre of wax. Wax floats, so call it 0.7 g.
- You've watched one burn down on a cake that nobody got round to […]

#TIL In 1846, a dead snail was glued to an index card at the British Museum. Four years later, they found it was still alive. The museum gave it a bath, placed it in a jar, and it lived the next two years eating cabbage.

#life #history #museum

Canuxploitation! #til
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I was years old when I learned that you can just long-press on the App Store icon on an iPhone to go to “Updates”. 🤯

(You otherwise have to open “App Store”, go to your account, and then click on “App Updates”. 😓)

#TIL #Apple #iPhone #iPad #iOS #UX #LPT #Tips

#TIL Für jeden Euro, den man in den Nachwuchs investiert, erhält man wohl 3 Euro zurück. Nach 10 Jahren. Also eine Performance von 11,61% p.a.

DE investiert derzeit wohl 1,60€ p.a. pro Kind.

Kann ja jeder mal den Bundeshaushalt aufrufen. Bald wird ⅓ der Neuverschuldung in Panzer investiert […]

#TIL that local minor celebrity Elliot Davis, known mostly for his decades of the same hustle (I forgot my wallet but need 13.95 to buy some fix-a-flat for my car around the corner, I hate to ask but can you help me out?) died in 2025 […]