#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.

#til,

a) pandora's box is/was a jar
(i think i knew that once, & was always weird imagining greeks big on boxes?)

b) it's not really "hope" in the box, it's elpis?
(the future we foresee?)

TIL prostitution was legal in Spain and its empire, including Latin America, until 1622. And they were INTENSELY Catholic. Even after that date, the ban wasn't enforced consistently; not for many decades at least.

#History #latinamerica #sexwork #TIL

#TIL totalitarianism, noun.

A form of government that theoretically permits no individual freedom & seeks to subordinate all aspects of individual life to the authority of the state … By the beginning of WW2, it had become synonymous with absolute & oppressive single-party government.

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#til there are green herons! Wonder if I have been misidentifying them my whole life 🤔

Interessante Zusammenfassung der hybriden Angriffe #Russland s auf die Nachbarn.
#TIL: ich wusste nicht, dass es schon so viele Vorfälle gab.
#SlavaUkraini #Zeitenwende #kritis #kritischeinfrastruktur
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/125533-027-A/mit-offenen-karten/

#TIL scientists in Siberia found a nematode worm that was frozen in permafrost for 46,000 years. It started eating again and reproduced.

#ema #siberiandiscovery #nematodeworm #permafrostpreservation

#til you've always been 🥵 . Not that I expected otherwise, it's just confirmation of a hypothesis.

Where does the word "indavertent" originate?

#TIL inadvertent (adj.)

1650s, "not properly attentive" (of persons), a back-formation from inadvertence.

inadvertence (n.)

"carelessness, negligence, inattention," mid-15c., from Old French inadvertance "thoughtlessness, heedlessness" (14c.) […]

"Nach außen hin wurde der Verzicht auf Raumanzüge auch mit der größeren Sicherheit der sowjetischen Raumschiffe gegenüber den amerikanischen begründet." https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojus_11 /via #wikipedia #interkosmos #til

#TIL The childhood game of Rock, Paper, Scissors existed before paper was invented, the game was created in 206 BCE in the Han Dynasty.

#nas #gamehistory #ancientgames #historicalgames

#TIL after his high school basketball team won the state championship, coach Cleveland Stroud discovered an ineligible player had played in a postseason game. He reported the violation, and their championship was revoked.

#ibl #mpi #sportsmanship #hip #sports

#TIL

Gerade in der neuen #ct einen Artikel über #KI-Rechenzentren gelesen (#TIL : die sich von normalen Rechenzentren ziemlich stark unterscheiden) und ich sage mal so: es gibt so viel #Wasserkühlung, dass die alte™ Unterscheidung zwischen #Hardware, #Software und #Wetware (das bist du!) obsolet wird […]

#TIL why Batman lives in Gotham City.

It all goes back to a legend about the village of Gotham in Nottinghamshire in the UK. (Pronounced "GOAT-um" /ˈɡoʊtɘm/, not /ɡʌθɘm/, from Old English "goat home.") King John supposedly wanted to build a royal highway to reach a hunting lodge in Nottingham…

#TIL Apparently, Channel Meetings now also work in Private Channels within #MicrosoftTeams. Stumbled over it by chance and noticed it being mentioned as a "note" in Microsoft's official documentation: learn.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/private-channels.

#TIL that hurricane names are picked from one of six lists that cycle annually, meaning a name is usually repeated every six years. When a hurricane is especially destructive, its name is retired and replaced. As of 2026, 100 names have been retired

#ane #hurricanehistory #hurricaneretirement