#TodayILearned you can't vote in your own poles, who knew!

#TIL Van is short for Ivan!

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

#PalmyraDelran #UndergroundGarage #TodayILearned

Today I learned that the "KNIGHTS" scene from Shrek 2, the scene parodying the 'COPS' TV show, was based off of the car chase with OJ Simpson in 1994, where he fled the scene in a white Ford Bronco.

https://lemmy.ml/post/31692697

finally got around to add dark mode to my website 😎 #todayilearned in the process about a neat #css function: invert()

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/filter-function/invert

#TodayILearned about the Convair Model 49, one of the weirdest aircraft ever designed. (It was never built.) https://www.slashgear.com/1392925/one-strangest-vehicles-us-army-ever-made-convair-model-49/

#TodayILearned that there's actually a precedent in the comic books for Christian Bale's Batman in the Nolan movies living in a penthouse apartment at the top of a skyscraper. In fact, the so-called "Bronze Age" of the title (think the countercultural years) was kicked off by Bruce Wayne doing exactly this, so he could be "closer to the crime," while Dick Grayson was off at college and participating in hippie protests.

#TodayILearned what ladybug larvae look like!
wikipedia
Colorado State University article

#TodayILearned that since the year 2000, Walt Disney Animation Studios has released exactly one theatrical short film a year, so to be eligible for an Oscar. They've been nominated almost every time since, and have won six of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_Animation_Studios_short_films_(2000%E2%80%93present)

TIL that India used 5 year plans for most of it's post-colonial history.

https://hexbear.net/post/5170192

Combined Public Service Announcement and Today I Learned: if you have `CLICOLOR=1` on macOS, if you do an `ls` of a directory which is inside iCloud Drive, evicted files (i.e., those that cannot be immediately used, but need to be downloaded first from iCloud) show with a grey background… see below:
First, both files are in iCloud, but not locally available. They have a dotted cloud icons in the iCloud Status field of the Finder window, and a greyed background in the output of the `ls` command.
Second, the `cssday.pdf` file shows a filled circle with a down arrow as part of their iCloud Status, which represents the "Keep Downloaded" option (i.e., the file has been downloaded and is locally available), while the other file keeps the dotted cloud icon. In that case only the `Screenshot…` file is shown as grayed out in the output of `ls`.

#PSA #PublicServiceAnnouncement #TIL #TodayILearned #iCloudDrive #Terminal #CLICOLOR

#TodayILearned about a Danish patriotic pig breed
https://circumstances.run/@Szescstopni/114630745743090688

TIL qu'il existe un livre anglais sur Quintus Fabius Rullianus Maximus alias Rully alias Maxy, et qu'il s'intitule : The Noble Brute.

Hahahahahahaha

#TIL #TodayILearned

#TodayILearned that Portland has a Sleestak Factory. https://dot.cards/portland_sleestak_

今日先知道 Windows XP 時代的桌布原圖其實好大

比如 Azul 是由 Bill Ross 在 1991 年拍攝的作品，實際名稱是「Sailing on the Blue Sea」，大小是 4341x2841，但 Windows 內建桌布版本只有800x600 大小

這裏還有其他一些的原圖：https://archive.org/details/theoriginalfilesofsomewindowswallpapers

參考資料:
https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsxp/comments/dy1221/managed_to_find_azul_in_its_original_4341x2841/
https://windowswallpaper.miraheze.org/wiki/Azul

#今日學到了 #til #todayilearned #windows #windowsxp #wallpaper

TIL some Windows XP era wallpapers are actually really high quality

For example, Azul wallpaper (the attached) is actually 4341x2841 but Windows Wallpaper version is 800x600

also some original photos on web archives

Sauce:
https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsxp/comments/dy1221/managed_to_find_azul_in_its_original_4341x2841/
https://windowswallpaper.miraheze.org/wiki/Azul

#til #todayilearned #windows #windowsxp #wallpaper

#TodayILearned of the famous Two-Story Outhouse in Gays, Illinois http://www.worldrecordacademy.org/2024/1/worlds-first-two-story-outhouse-world-record-in-gays-illinois-424126

#TodayILearned that the bloke who invented Iron Mountain originally had a business growing mushrooms

"The company was started by Herman Knaust, who had made his fortune growing and marketing mushrooms.[3] He purchased a depleted iron ore mine and 100 acres (0.40 km2) of land in Kingston, New York for $9,000 in 1936, needing more space to grow his product. Iron Mountain (company) -Wikipedia "

#TodayILearned that the bloke who invented Iron Mountain originally had a business growing mushrooms

"The company was started by Herman Knaust, who had made his fortune growing and marketing mushrooms.[3] He purchased a depleted iron ore mine and 100 acres (0.40 km2) of land in Kingston, New York for $9,000 in 1936, needing more space to grow his product.
Iron Mountain (company) -Wikipedia " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Mountain_(company)

TIL that the "Streisand Effect" suggests that the quickest way to learn information online is not to ask the right question, but rather to post a wrong answer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cu... #til #todayilearned www.reddit.com/r/todayilear...

Ward Cunningham - Wikipedia

#TodayILearned that #GitLab finally supports searching CI pipeline runs with filters. For years it only supported plain text search 🙄

I just coincidentally tried typing into the text area and was surprised to get suggestions for filters. Finally seeing only the results from the branch I’m interested in! 🎉