Notices tagged with til, page 3

bobjonkmanformer Today I Learned... , erkanyilmaz

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!TIL that #DDG really groks #unicode: compare https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%E2%98%84 vs. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%E2%98%84

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!TIL that 2*cos(pi/6) = sqrt(3)

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!TIL about $GREP_OPTIONS and "grep --exclude=...", and how easy it is to have "set it and #forget it" #backfire.

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!TIL that there is no "e" at the tail end of "endorphin", despite it being a #portmanteau of "endogenous morphine". #words

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!TIL about #Gandhi's view on the #Holocaust: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/5160

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!TIL that #paisley is called "Persian cucumbers" in #Russian, though my only source for this is @comraderacing....

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!TIL about "Professional Employer Organizations" (PEOs): http://status.hackerposse.com/url/4828

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"Yeah Yeah" is apparently a #cover of "Woo-Hoo", originally done by the Rock-A-Teens in 1959: ht…

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!TIL, whistling the Revillos #song in @ninapaley's Pandorama, it's the same as Vonage's #themeso…

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!TIL the #word "latrate": http://status.hackerposse.com/url/4738

zoowar inscius , luke , mcnalu

@luke @inscius @mcnalu #til The great jurist Sir Edward Coke, who lived from 1552 to 1634, has explained wh…

zoowar inscius , luke , mcnalu

@luke @inscius @mcnalu #til The great jurist Sir Edward Coke, who lived from 1552 to 1634, has explained wh…

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!TIL about arrhenotokous parthenogenesis(!) and the alien #genetics of drone #bees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_(bee)#Drone_genetics

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!TIL that #dogs #poop inline with Earth's #magnetic fields: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/4577

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!TIL that Laundau-Kleffner syndrome is often #misdiagnosed as #autism: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/4575

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!TIL that Hematogen is a #Russian #candy bar made out of #blood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hematogen

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Oh, the last "72" in "(N/72)**2 * 72" is the inherent size of the input SVG in points, unless th…

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!TIL that #ImageMagick's "-density N" option actually means "(N/72)**2 * 72 DPI" when rasterising SVGs (except for a #singularity when N=72)