#til eating a pomelo segment is not entirely dissimilar to shelling and eating a prawn

#TIL we're apparently not calling it "post-grunge" anymore.

The Gen Z apparently really, *really* love Mary Oliver! #TIL #poetry

#TIL Die Wolfsstunde ist die Zeit zwischen drei und vier Uhr morgens, in der viele Menschen hormonell bedingt aufwachen & danach oft nur schwer wieder einschlafen können 😳

🇳🇴 Nash avslutter – TIL må på speider-jakt

#NordicNews #Nyheter #TIL #SpeiderJakt #Innenriks

#TIL In the 1960s, Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean used real human skeletons from UCLA Medical Center for the ride because 1960s fake bones weren’t convincing enough.

#facts #nes

#TIL In 2014, a recall was issued for about 2.2 million bean bag chairs due to faulty zippers. Two children died after suffocating from lack of air and inhaling foam beads inside the chairs.

#lion #tech #nature

#til
If you have to shop on Amazon, scroll down.

#TIL claude code /voice works and is useful. Just my QMK config has no support for "hold space" 😂

#TIL In 2016, a Chinese artist built a $15,000 LEGO statue of Nick Wilde from Zootopia in three days. After it was displayed, a 4‑year‑old knocked it over, destroying it. The artist declined the parents’ offer of compensation.

#nes #ys #facts

How an #LLM works, roughly. Nice short #video on #ML.

#graduateml #til #learn #learning #neurons #softmax #layers #transformers #architecture #neuralnetworks

@c_9

#TIL it not only has a name, but its very own Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantosmia

And you might have its ugly brother: #Cacosmia

#Phantosmia #WeirdDiseases

#TIL beach water tastes like shite

#TIL Solomon Northup, author of Twelve Years a Slave, has no record of his death. The only post‑1857 account shows him alive, leading many to speculate he may have been enslaved again. Historians conclude he most likely died in 1863 or 1864.

#civilwar #slavery #historicalcontext

#TIL about #OpenReview;

"OpenReview aims to promote openness in scientific communication, particularly the peer review process, by providing a flexible cloud-based web interface and underlying database API ..."

https://openreview.net/about

This opening sentence is followed by a long list of […]

#TIL someone has taken the offline language translation models from Mozilla, reimplemented the engine that powers them in Rust, and made it available as a command-line application, no browser needed:

https://crates.io/crates/fxtranslate-cli

There’s also a Rust crate for use in other software […]

#TIL Centipedes are born with an odd number of leg pairs, so they can never have exactly 100 legs, no matter the name.

#centipedes #centipede_count #centipede

#TIL Chewing gum isn’t biodegradable because it’s made from synthetic polymers and plastics, which break down slowly and don’t break into natural materials.

#biodegradable #chewinggum #ecofriendly

Heute lernte ich etwas über die "Hallo Baum App", die man z. B. in Berlin nutzen kann: Stelle dich einfach neben einen Straßenbaum, tippe auf die "Hallo Baum"-Taste und erfahre interessante Details über deinen Baum!

https://hallobaum.de/ #hli #til

#TIL chatgpt.com/share/6acf2c...
原来英语还有 historical present 这种时态，是我以前上课溜号了吗？真没印象学过这个啊（

> 截图中这个 is 对吗？它会不会造成台湾仍是日本殖民地的错觉？