Lightnin' Rod "Sport" (1973)
Today I learned that Kool & the Gang is the backing band on this song.
#TIL
youtu.be/ljzwabhHv0c?...

Another day at work, another long forgotten shortcut rediscovered by accident... If you alt-click your nodes it will display them in the 2D view without changing the properties currently displayed. #TIL

#TIL A South Korean man claimed he could pitch a 24‑person military tent by himself. To test him, organizers invited 2,000 people to the T24 Festival to watch. He completed the pitch in under two hours.

#military_training #military #military_skills

#TIL Dutch employers must continue paying sick employees at least 70% of their salary for up to two years, often meeting or exceeding 100% coverage for the first year through collective agreements.

#sickemployees #coverage #dutchemployers #continue #100percent

#til "grue" is the French word for "crane"

Suddenly the text adventure game Zork has a different feel.

#TIL that the "Report and Block" button in #WhatsApp does NOT remove said person from said group.
Like ... in what universe is that a correct behaviour? If someone spams my group, I want to (1) remove spam (2) block them (3) remove them from the group. Never ever in the existence of this […]

#TIL The Soviet Union violated Olympic rules by paying athletes full time despite appearing to have regular jobs, enabling them to dominate the Games in the 1970s and 1980s.

#sovietunion #mpi #olympics #olympichistory

whoa. #til. Her (2013) was Megan Ellisons. whoa. i didn't know any of this.

I found out today that when shopping carts are parked, their handles are 11 inches apart! I thought the handles were all next to each other! #til

Wow 🤯
#TIL

Ha, I just learned my lazy usage of the TiB/PiB values from https://sciop.net means that there is even more data than I thought :D

310 TiB = ~340TB
1.6PiB = ~1.76PB

#TIL

Was man nicht alles so überraschendes und lehrreiches hier beim scrollen findet.

#til

#TIL A scientist submitted a research paper to a predatory journal, but the entire text was just the phrase “Get me off your mailing list.” The journal’s reviewers rated it “excellent” and accepted it with only minor editorial tweaks.

#science #tech

#TIL https://autoeq.app , into which you can throw a CSV file with a frequency response (two columns: frequency, gain in dB) to calculate an EQ to flatten (or match to another frequency response) it.

In completely unrelated news, the cheap speakers in the dining room now sound much better.

#TIL this exists and it's a damn good alternative to other #CheckPoint #VPN clients! #rustlang

https://github.com/ancwrd1/snx-rs