#TIL that arrow on the gas gauge that tells you where the fuel door is, has a name: "Moylan Arrow".
And I'm sad to learn that James Moylan, the inventor, passed away last month.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-moylan-arrow-is-one-of-fords-best-contributions-to-car-design
#TIL that UTF-8 is quite cool and packs the unicode code points into 1-4 bytes in a way that's self-synchronizing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Description
#TIL ⬆️ Vaut aussi pour le néerlandais. ⬇️
#TIL There a 3 (three!) mathematicians called Boole.
The one after whom booleans are named, George Boole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole
The one that was also a didactitian and a feminist author, married to the first one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Everest_Boole
The one that coined the word "polytope", daughter of the first two.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Boole_Stott
LOL: #TIL Shitposting ist ein (is an) Anagramm für (for) Top Insights (Top Erkenntnis) 🤪🤣
Siehe / See @GossiTheDog
Wow, es gibt eine Norm für das korrekte falten von grossformatigen Plan-Ausdrucken damit diese in einem Aktenordner abgelegt werden können.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_824
TIL about the battle of Blair Mountain
Removing known_hosts entry using ssh config alias
Working on my agent-vm project, I was facing the oldest ssh problem I ever had more often than I could tolerate using my brute force approach of editing text manually. The known_hosts entry blocking …
TIL that Cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s
#TIL that Wolfram Alpha interprets :3 as "regular cat face"
#TIL about Cashu, a protocol for e-cash, *without* a distributed but centralised public ledger of transactions;
"Ecash transactions between users or service providers respect the user's privacy. A mint does not store a database of user accounts and their activity which protects users from leaks or hacks and can provide stronger censorship resistance than classical payment systems."
Curious to know how this compares to InterLedger.
#til Widerstände an der Kleidung als Zeichen des Widerstands #Polen #Solidarnosc
#TIL Es gibt sog. „Guard llamas“, also „Wachllamas“ oder „Hütellamas“. Llamas eignen sich z.B. gut, um Schafe oder Ziegen vor Kojoten zu bewachen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_llama
#TIL: Danny “I’m too old for this shit” Glover was 41 when he played 50yo “Roger Murtaugh” in “Lethal Weapon”.
It's rare that I need to check TLS version support, but #TIL that #nmap is pretty great at that. #networking
what in actual fuck. #TIL? I guess???????
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:katl2n3xfpfwpv45aiwwtbrb/post/3mdovo55hts27
#TodayILearned that mass-market paperbacks are nearly dead. In fact, they've been dying almost since I began reading, having peaked at 49% of the book market in 1970, and being down to 3% in 2024, with ReaderLink having stopped distributing mass-market paperback books at the end of 2025.
I even looked at some #BookTube videos, and the young hosts referred to trade paperbacks as "traditional" books, and "the usual type" of book, and finding MMPBs odd and old-fashioned. #TIL
#TIL There is an island in #Greece where you can stay for a month (or more) to help take care of the local #cat population.
