#TIL ‼️

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@sfbayshows
#TIL Shaun Cassidy is still alive …

@VeroniqueB99

#TIL if you lose weight, you can run fast, and you don't have to hide for self defense.

#TIL that the Hensel pushers are working to put all of Fanny's sheet music online for free: https://henselpushers.org/ #FannyHensel #FannyMendelssohn

Oh #SQL ... why do you do these things to me?

#TIL
it's
GRANT __ ON__ TO __
but
REVOKE __ ON ___ FROM ___

I mean, I guess that makes sense, but :headdesk:

TIL even with our most sophisticated theories of physics, we can only describe 5% of the universe. The rest is a mystery. We suspect that it’s made of particles that we are trying to discover

https://lemmy.world/post/41720391

During today's internet research squirrel chase, I came across this fascinating read: a downloadable spreadsheet listing every invocation of The Insurrection Act, with sources hyperlinked.

the US sent troops to the Virgin Islands once. Huh. #TIL. Anyway, sharing for anyone else interested in this kind of historical deep dive.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/guide-invocations-insurrection-act

#USpol

TIL that people with insomnia are 10 times more likely to have depression than the general population

https://lemmy.world/post/41719357

#TIL: #BundesagenturFürSprunginnovationen klingt zwar wie die athletische Version von #MinistryOfSillyWalks, ist aber something completely different: @sprind_de

Deren Direktor, @rafbuff, will "eine digitale #Wallet auf allen #Smartphones für alle – und dies bitte schnell". Ich verstehe das so, daß es die #EUDIWallet auch als #freieSoftware für #Linux-Smartphones (#Mobian, #PostmarketOS) geben soll. Verstehe ich das richtig?

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesagentur_für_Sprunginnovationen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_of_Silly_Walks

#MontyPython

My new favourite Rust hack: you can trick rustfmt into formatting imports with one symbol per line. Found this gem in LKML. It's perfect for large import lists!

#rust #rustfmt #lkml #til

@katemorley I never noticed this, thanks!! #TIL

#til I now set off the metal detector at the airport :(

TIL three silos built at Malley's Chocolate factory were meant to store cocoa, milk, and sugar.

https://lemmy.ca/post/58720714

#TIL Certains requins ont un intestin en spirale.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sharks-intestines-spiral-valve-invented-nikola-tesla-180978307/

#TIL about Tribal Pop art and it's relation to Lee Falk's The Phantom (courtesy @wikipedia) #ThePhantom #PopArt #Superheroes #Comics #PublicDomain #LeeFalk #WWII

Shout-out to Grammar Girl across social media. #TIL coordinate adjectives. I found an episode covering coordinate adjectives five years ago. I nominate them for coverage again.

HT Claude Haiku 4.5 re. “rare old websites” needing no comma.

Shout-out to Grammar Girl across social media. #TIL coordinate adjectives. I found an episode covering coordinate adjectives five years ago. I nominate them for coverage again.

HT Claude Haiku 4.5 re. “rare old websites” needing no comma. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-the-opposite-of-deja-vu-commas-between-adjectives/id173429229?i=1000531164762

#TIL about Renfrew Christie - a South African scholar who worked undercover to discover their budding nuclear program. He was caught and conivcted on terrorism charges. After being tortured, he used his forced confession to relay to the ANC how to sabatoge the program - and it worked, key infrastructure was bombed while he was still in prison.

> Many of his family members fought with the Allied forces against the Germans in World War II, and “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/world/africa/renfrew-christie-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ElA.l_uO.quxTSV0lHbGV&smid=url-share

#TIL you can be sued for homewrecking. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2026/01/15/kyrsten-sinema-sued-as-homewrecker-matthew-ammel/88199950007/

#TIL There's no million-dollar Millennium Prize money if you successfully disprove the Riemann hypothesis. The rule says if the problem survives "after [...] elimination of some special case", they only conditionally reward "a small prize [...] from other CMI funds."