#TIL they would change what Beatles song he hears
youtu.be/yWoonw5RoGk

#TIL The King of the Netherlands has piloted KLM Royal Dutch Airways flights twice a month since the 1990s.

#travel #explore #ys #hts #adventure

#TIL Das Robert Koch-Institut (RKI) schreibt sich selbst mit nur einem Bindestrich & mir ist schon klar, dass das zulässig ist, aber igitt!

#TIL #wabisabi
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-Sabi

Absichtlich eingebaute kleine Unvollkommenheiten, Fehler.

#TIL about #FediHood;

"... free software for talking with the people around you, by topic. Private by design, free of ads and trackers, and connected to the fediverse."

https://fedihood.social/about

Created by @Thomas, whose prior work on federated software includes; Fedilab, TubeLab […]

#TIL Sia was the singer on Zero 7 - Destiny
youtu.be/U_OKigBRqBI

#TIL

Well, this is a banger.

A perfect encapsulation of a too real community finding its way through fear and danger.

Reads like a literary character study, while a very funny crime thriller creeps up on you.

#TIL the power of smuggling genre in great character work. #novel #writing #book #author

#TIL Better Call Saul was nominated for 30 Primetime Emmy Awards but did not win any.

#primetimeemmy #30primetimeemmyawards #bettercallsaul

#TIL Achilles, though legendary as nearly invulnerable, is described in the Iliad being wounded by a soldier, showing he was mortal. The River Styx’s role in the story first appears in the 1st century AD in an unfinished epic poem called the Achilleid.

#iliad #achilles #styx

#TIL the Chinese words for snare drum and bass drum are respectively ‘small drum’ 小鼓 and ‘big drum’ 大鼓.

#TIL The title includes "Sid Meier's" because in the 1980s, Robin Williams joked that naming the game after Sid Meier would help sell 1987's Sid Meier's Pirates.

#sidmeier #sidmeierpirates1987 #sidmeierpirates

#TIL

#TIL Ricou Browning, der »The Creature from the Black Lagoon« in allen Unterwasserszenen darstellte, war Co-Creator & -Produzent der TV-Serie »Flipper«.

#TIL when #Claude adds a row to a #GoogleSheet for you, it's going through #Zapier under the bonnet. So it quietly stops the moment you run out of tasks on your plan.

No error at the sheet, just a row that never appears. Check your zap limits. #automation

Well that's cool as hell. #TIL 🤔

Did you know that Michael Jackson's style, fashion and choreography were heavily influenced by Bob Fosse's performance as the Snake in the 1974 musical film The Little Prince?

#TIL #TodayILearned #MichaelJackson

#TIL In 2004, Reason Magazine mailed personalized June issue covers to all 40,000 subscribers—each cover featured a satellite image of the subscriber’s home.

#satellite #reasonmagazine