#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

#TIL A real Somali pirate from the Somali-American man who participated in the Captain Phillips incident was sentenced to 33 years in U.S. prison.

#somali #captainphillips #pirate #mali

#til that I am Bombadilian. I resonate most strongly with #TomBombadil, and not any of the cool aspects. When you cringed at Tom's poetry and wondered when it would end, I felt seen. Drat, not Aragorn or Legolas, but silly silly loving Tom.

Oh well, we all have our rings to bear.

#lotr

Had a great time with Flesh. A brilliant, rich & almost allegorical life story told by a terse narrator with poor emotional literacy.

#TIL: How powerful dramatic irony, knowing something the narrator doesn't, is.

#book #writer #read #literature

Haha, I've never even heard about that before today.

I hope I haven't been giving the wrong impression online. #TIL 😀

#TIL The jury in the OJ Simpson trial was sequestered for 265 days, during which they lived in isolated conditions with continuous supervision.

#justice #mps #ys #fairtrial

#TIL about KolibriOS

#permacomputing

#TIL Das Hörbuch "Die Brandstifter" von Annika Brockschmidt gibt es 2x auf #Spotify: Einmal als Hörbuch und nochmal als Album. Das Album ist das ungekürzte Hörbuch und ist ohne Hörbuchguthaben hörbar.

https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/659I7edcKzwpgiINewDdfE

Vorleser ist der IMHO derzeit […]

#TIL
Heliumziege

Quelle:
Ladies Night Youngstars

#TIL github.com/redhat-et/ri...

> Point it at any repository and your agent gets a ranked, deterministic call graph — what to touch, what it breaks, which tests to run — instead of grepping around and reading whole files.
> No API key. No embeddings. No index server. No daemon.

#til
Tamango, a 1958 film about a revolt on a slave ship.

Not what I would expect to see from 1958. (It's no surprise it wasn't made in America.)

I should maybe give this a look.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamango

#TIL Since the 1990s, dairy farms have used waterbeds for cows. Cows resting longer on waterbeds leads to more sleep, which boosts milk production.

#milkproduction #dairy #waterbeds #dragonage

#TIL that I’m solidly German. My friends had me tested.

#TIL NASA named a crated on the moon "Wan-Hoo", after 'Wan-Hu', an ancient Chinese official who strapped kites and 47 rockets to a chair in order to reach space. His body was never found.

#spaceexploration #nasa #space #moon #moonlander #nasa #nes #nas

#TIL: Es gibt die #TLD `.vermögensberater`

#TIL the story of Cinderella predates Christianity, with the earliest known version dating back to ancient Greece around 7 BC.

#cinderellahistory #cinderellaorigins #cinderellaprechristian

稍微有点狼狈的一场工作坊，但还是狠狠种草了 obot.ai
至于出了点状况，其实我甚至觉得这才是技术分享的常态
以及 #TIL silo:
a part of a company, organization, or system that does not communicate with, understand, or work well with other parts

#TIL there is an artist named #Lambchop who does an amazing cover of This Corrosion (made famous to Gen Xers by Sisters of Mercy). And that this particular Lambchop is not a sock puppet.