#TIL:

Sign-up-form-email-bombing is an attack where you go to many mastodon instances like mathe.social and register accounts using your victim's mail address, as often as possible and they are spammed with registration mails. Why? No idea.

This has been going on here for 2 days now. Most of […]

DYK? What you do while pregnant will affect not only your unborn child - but also your unborn GRANDCHILDREN. Biology is wild #TIL #Pregnancy #Science #Epigenetics

@f800gecko

#TIL a cajon has a snare string.

That's a lovely instrument, all the more so because of the repurposed materials. Very #SolarPunk.

@SnoopJ #TIL Kaomoji is the term of art for that class of emoticon-like text strings! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaomoji

#TIL Japan constructed massive flood‑control shafts the size of the Statue of Liberty.

#japan #construct

Wondering if there's a term for a 'tongue' of territory that sticks out from the main body of a country and is surrounded by other territories, without quite being a pene-exclave (also #TIL). Kind of like a peninsula.

Eg, Orestiada in Greece […]

#TIL Beverly Eckert, who called her husband in the South Tower during 9/11, died eight years later when a plane crashed just six days after she met with the president to help 9/11 victim families.

#beveckert #ane #11memorial #11 #ys

#TIL Columbus, Ohio is frequently used by companies as a testing ground because it lacks distinctive cultural or demographic features, making it feel like a generic American city, resembling the country as a whole.

#columbus #american #ohio

#TIL - když máš příliš nízkou první vrstvu, přestane fungovat #brim, protože je příliš tenký...

#3dtisk

#TIL about #git export-subst

🇳🇴 Vegard Erlien klar til TILs start-ellever mot Rosenborg

#NordicNews #Nyheter #TIL #Rosenborg #Innenriks

#TIL Abraham Lincoln owned a dog named Fido. Fido is cited as the origin of the pet dog name, making "Fido" common and often used in slang.

#dog #doggo #fido

#TIL there is a weekly usage limit in M365 Copilot Premium when using the Opus model. Luckily it's weekend now.

#TIL Over 400 years ago, Dutch inventor Cornelis Drebbel built a working submarine and navigated it beneath the River Thames. Around 1620, he took King James I of England on the ride, making James the first monarch to travel in a submarine.

#vig #history #geography

#TIL
Krisendestillation

#TIL

"Le deuxième facteur inclut un phénomène reconnu depuis des décennies : lorsque les systèmes d’IA se voient confier un problème à résoudre, ils trouvent parfois des raccourcis”

#TIL Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11 reported seeing brief flashes of light while his eyes were closed. NASA later determined these were charged particles (cosmic radiation) passing through his eyes and stimulating his retina, not actual light.

#buzz #nas #aldrin #apollo #nasa