#TIL Der kürzeste Krieg der Welt dauerte nur eine Minute. Die Conch Republic erklärte den USA den Krieg, kapitulierte gleich danach bedingungslos & ersuchte um rund 1 Mrd. Dollar für den Wiederaufbau.

#TIL: There are conspiracy theorists who think Locks of Love is a scam and they have access to video cameras. @racerxmachina.bsky.social https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3ftcscam2x2e2og4v523rutj/post/3mv7a7kgmo22c

#TIL that @samuelpepys 's last name is pronounced "Peeps." Never woulda thunk! Thanks, @thewoodbinewitch !

#TIL about a new IETF (well, IRTF) research group: the #Quantum Internet Research Group (QIRG). Focus is on quantum secure comms, going beyond just the QKD everybody already knows about. Problems include routing, resource allocation, handshakes, interop, etc. Bringing what we've learned about […]

This was a really good time.

For so much of it Ndiaye creates an atmosphere of something being slightly off.

The magic, the familial and social issues at the heart of the tale all become one.

#TIL: How powerful narrators doubting themselves can be.

#book #booksky #reading #novel #author

#TIL In 1961, only about 10% of doctors informed patients about a cancer diagnosis; the majority did not.

#health

#TIL TIL Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark on the Louisiana Purchase expedition partly because he believed mastodons, now extinct, might still exist and could be encountered during the journey.

#expedition #history #til

Voice Actor Arianna Contardo's 4 tips for keeping your voice clear in the recording booth! 
#VoiceActing #BehindTheScenes #ActingTips #GameDev #TIL

#TIL In 1997, the Mr Bean movie opened opposite Starship Troopers. Some credited its box‑office success and the latter’s lower performance to underage children buying tickets for Mr Bean in order to sneak into Starship Troopers.

#oop #space #hip #movies

#til (actually yesterday, so #yil) that with Cloudflare registered domains, you can not use your own dns setup, only Cloudflare's, not possible to do axfr, and i'm astonished that someone managed to do vendor lock-in with fucking DNS, but also, wtf.

#TIL about SuperDesk;

"... a state-of-the-art digital newsroom system. It combines headless CMS functionality with powerful workflow features for an end-to-end news creation, production, curation and distribution platform. Built alongside journalists in the newsroom, it has a modular […]

#til: Ein Hotdog hat eine Reichweite von 7 Stunden.

#TIL that you can add goals to your ko-fi page! And since I've been thinking about getting a new desk chair for a while but it's rather low on the list of priorities, I figured it would be a perfect medium-term goal to start with :)

🔗 ko-fi.com/nillegraphic...

#TIL: Even though my bridged #Fediverse account is "suspended" here on Bluesky for unexplained reasons, my posts are still somehow seeping in. I know because I received a notification that someone "liked" this toot *FROM BLUESKY*

toad.social/@grumpybozo/...

🇳🇴 Ruben Yttergård Jenssen tilbake i RBK-kamp: – Må bli mange hakk bedre

#NordicNews #Nyheter #RBK #TIL #Innenriks

#TIL my nutty little joker faced bird buds live in a communist polycule 🤔

#TIL Christopher Lee was the only member of the Lord of the Rings cast who actually met J.

#facts

I know Braixen has been around a long while, but I don't think I'd ever heard it pronounced by anything official. #TIL

#TIL that Michael Longfellow wasn’t asked back for the upcoming season of SNL.

WHAT THE HELL?

He’s so good!

#TIL New Jersey and Wisconsin are the only U.S. states where first-time drunk driving is treated as a traffic offense, not a criminal offense.

#wisconsin #drunkdriving #newjersey