Today I learned, #Russia has also been invading #Georgia for a way long day. Not cool, and really freakin’ surreal to see and hear from people near the “current borders”.
#todayIlearned #TIL #invasion #Nebula
https://nebula.tv/videos/johnnyharris-the-invasion-russia-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about/
Today I learned, when you leave a pot party, you walk right out into the wild west.
I need to find a pot party. I want to step right out inti the wild west.
Also, this short film is talking about "blowing pot". From now on, in my world, it's not toking or smoking - it's blowing 
For those kitchen chemists and physicists out there - apparently, you can create plasma in your microwave with just a couple grapes!
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Scientists now know why microwaved grapes make plasma fireballs
https://www.snexplores.org/article/why-microwaving-grapes-makes-plasma-fireballs
#todayILearned that whales descended from a land mammal that looks like a dog. It walked on land and swam in the water. It had hooves and webbed feet, and eyes that were set high on its skull.
Its name is Pakicetus—the whale from Pakistan—because that’s where their fossils were found.
This sounds like an April Fool’s joke, but it isn’t.
https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/1025450/view/pakicetus-whale-ancestor-illustration
Did you know that there already was a #GulfofAmerica once?
Just north of North Korea, the gulf was named in 1906 and later the USSR changed it in 1972 so people wouldn’t think America owned it!
I've been working through my Pocket read-later queue. Saturday morning is spent catching up on the previous week’s saves and Sunday morning is going backwards to earlier saves.
I'm now into November 2023, so it is an interesting lens as to what I was curious about then.
Today, I learned about the Sieve of Eratosthenes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes
Have you learned anything interesting this weekend? 
In February 1969, #JohnnyCash had a party at his house (that) turned into a guitar pull, with some of Johnny's friends trying out their latest songs. " #BobDylan sang 'Lay Lady Lay,'" recalled Cash. " #KrisKristofferson sang 'Me and Bobby McGee.' #JoniMitchell sang 'Both Sides Now.' #GrahamNash sang 'Marrakesh Express.' And #ShelSilverstein sang 'A Boy Named Sue.'"
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30082/johnny-cashs-boy-named-sue-was-written-shel-silverstein
#TodayILearned #СегодняЯУзнал что каждый Самсунг имеет глубоко в себе фотку случайного чихуахуа, который не понимает, что происходит.
(*#0*# – Sensor — Image test)
Понятно, что для тестирование нужно было какое-то изображение, просто интересно, что оно... такое. И понятно, почему его не поменять — чтобы была единая точка отсчёта для сравнения. С годами соотношения сторон Самсунгов менялись и на моём она ужасно растянута
Did a double take on a link provided by @sacha
Did not realize that adding the suffix `#:~:text=<starting phrase>,<ending phrase>` would scroll a modern browser to that text, and highlight it.
#TodayILearned that Robert Loggia heavily campaigned for the role of Frank Booth in David Lynch's 1986 "Blue Velvet." After being kept waiting three hours for his audition, just to be told that Dennis Hopper had already been hired, Loggia unleashed a profanity-filled rant on Lynch that he still remembered a decade later, which inspired him to invite Loggia to play a similar role in his 1997 "Lost Highway."
One thing I really enjoy; discovering a word I’ve never seen before and finding its definition hits that “oh, that's cool" portion of my brain.
I've been making good progress clearing up my Pocket (AKA ReadItLater) queue lately.
Found this while reading: https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-tech
#TodayILearned that Warner Brothers originally created the #LooneyTunes cartoons because they had just acquired five popular music publishers at the beginning of the Great Depression, and wanted to heavily promote the songs they now owned so to encourage the sale of sheet music. For example, the very first Looney Tunes cartoon was called "Sinkin' in the Bathtub," created specifically to promote the 1929 song "Singin' in the Bathtub."
After years of running `ls` commands to figure out where a symlink was pointing, today I found out about the readlink1 command:
TIL about an incredible bird called the Arctic Tern, every year it flies from one side of the planet to the other and back again:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_tern
"Recent studies have shown average annual round-trip lengths of about 70,900 km (44,100 mi)"
A bird species that migrates 70,000 kilometres every year! 
#TodayILearned about female rockabilly pioneer #SparkleMoore, a flamboyant live performer in the style of Jerry Lee Lewis, who released only two singles in her entire career before retiring in 1956 to raise a family.
#TodayILearned that the oldest English-language description of card game rules was written in 1655 by John Cotgrave in his "Wit's Interpreter," and that the four games featured in the gaming section included the very first English mentions of chess and cribbage (along with a game called Ombre and another called Piquet, both once massively popular and played by millions, but now only by obscure game aficionados).
Today I learned that inkjet printers literally dry out if you don't use them for a while.
I'm shocked! #TodayILearned that #Python sets don't de-duplicate NaN values! (I guess it is because NaN has this crazy property that it is not equal to itself... NaN != NaN is True...)
>>> set((float('nan'), float('nan'), float('nan')))
{nan, nan, nan}
#TodayILearned that "stogie," meaning a cheap cigar, goes all the way back to 1835 and is derived from "Conestoga" as in the covered wagon. https://www.etymonline.com/word/stogie#22110
