#TIL Rhomboïdes

fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_...

#TIL An enslaved man earned enough to buy 80 acres for $100, founded the first U.S. town legally registered by a Black man, and used the proceeds to purchase freedom for 16 family members.

#civilrights #blackhistorymonth #humanrights

This one flew by.

Riley, in particular, gripped me. It was speedy, an unrelenting series of reveals shared by some intriguing characters.

A fun, twisted take on Peter Pan.

#TIL the impact pace can have on holding plot elements together.

#novel #booksky #read #writer #author

#TIL For the final 20 years of his life, actor Telly Savalas lived at the Sheraton-Universal Hotel in Los Angeles. Because he was so regular at the hotel bar, it was renamed Telly’s. He died the day after his 72nd birthday, in his room.

#sheraton #tellysavalas #universalhotel

DYK that not all #jellyfish stings hurt? This summer there were a lot of jellyfish in coastal areas, driven partly by warmer waters. But many don't harm humans - their stings may not be potent enough, or they cannot penetrate human skin. 👇https://iere.org/what-jellyfish-do-not-sting/ #TIL #Science

Dzisiaj dowiedziałem się, że istnieje zwierzę miodożer, inaczej ratel, a dawniej pszczoło-jamnik.

#TIL

🇳🇴 Magnus Andersen (40) skal leie Alta IF mot tidligere klubben

#NordicNews #Nyheter #AltaIF #TIL #Innenriks

Today I Learned On Bluesky:

... that nature is actually like a Disney movie, and wild elephants are gentle giants, and that, say, bull elephants in musth don't routeinely gore each other or murder rhinos for fun.

#BlueskyFacts #TIL

#TIL The Lion King started as “King of the Jungle,” but Disney realized lions don’t live in jungles, so they changed the title.

#jungle #lionking #lion #lion

#TIL that Kitty Pryde and James T. Kirk had the same favorite band

#TIL that Ebenezer Scrooge, despite, well, never existing, has his own gravestone in Shropshire, England. Don't go leaving fruitcakes there come December, ya hear?

www.atlasobscura.com/places/ebene...

#TIL: The Fibonacci series represents (also) the number of ordered combinations of [1,2] that sum to n

n=1: 1
n=2: 2 11
n=3: 21 12 111
n=4: 211 121 112 22 11111
n=5: 221 212 122 1121 1211 2111 1112 11111

And more amazingly, this is how the series was first discovered: Hindu analysis of poetic […]

#TIL about this great video from the #Consumer Council of #Norway

"The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6SP...

#Enshittification

#AI takes a lot of work off my plate (at work) but it also sometimes teaches me new ways of doing things that I'd overlooked.

#TIL that .jsonl is a separate format from .json. You can store json objects in a list so a large file remains readable even if rows are corrupted. #scrapy -friendly

#TIL Elvis Presley was buried in Memphis’s Forest Hills Cemetery beside his mother. Days later, someone tried to steal his body; he and his mother were exhumed and reburied in Graceland’s Meditation Garden a few weeks later.

#elvispresleymemorial #ys #elvispresley #elvispresleyfuneral

#TIL China secretly carved a 20-kilometer-long nuclear weapons complex into a mountain over 17 years, then abandoned it without ever using it.

#nuclearthreat #nuclearweapons #nuclearcomplex

#TIL A man experienced stress‑induced amnesia lasting about 6 years and 10 months; the condition resolved naturally once he began a new job.

#stressinducedamnesia #nes

#TIL: Tommy Lee Jones and Oliver Stone were born on exactly the same day. Do you think when they realized that they giggled and hugged on the set of Natural Born Killers?

#Cinema #Film #Birthdays

#TIL The Shining’s story was inspired by The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, but the film wasn’t shot there. Dumb and Dumber, however, was filmed at the same hotel.

#shining #colorado #lora #sam #stanleyhotel