TIL of RHYTHM 0 : A performance art piece in which Marina Abramović stood still for six hours while the audience could do whatever they wanted to her. (aussie.zone)
👉wiki...
TIL about this tool, the *Reinigungsschaber* ! (lemmy.world)
I had lost hope with my electric cooking plates. The white circles where completely hidden under a layer of diamond-grade burn residue that no amount of scrubbing with chemicals could even begin to remove. I found this 3€ scrapping tool and it’s amazing !!! Sorry, but I don’t have the before picture, believe me after 6...
TIL the WORLDS UGLIEST COLOUR has a name : PANTONE 448c (aussie.zone)
👉wiki...
TIL the german chancellor takes screenshots of his tweets on X and publishes it on his website because X is now a closed system. (feddit.de)
www.bundeskanzler.de/…/twitter-bundeskanzler
TIL the DMC DeLorean, among many strange production choices, was made of stainless steel (lemmy.world)
I know it’s obvious from the picture, but I never realized DeLoreans were stainless steel, which is very rare for vehicles made in the past half-century. DMC DeLorean Wikipedia here...
TIL camels have teeth you'd expect from a carnivore (abload.de)
Sources:...
til: Benford's law: real life number are not evenly disribued, 1 occur 30% of the time (lemmy.world)
TIL BLACK SQUARE XVII is an artwork made from vitrified nuclear waste created by Taryn Simon. The piece will be put on display when deemed safe for human exposure in 3015. (aussie.zone)
👉 Garage Gallery...
The music usage "album" refers to the original practice of creating an album book of several 78s bound as separate pages, like a stamp or photo album. (lemmy.world)
www.reddit.com/r/vinyl/comments/…/d3579rg/
TIL of GUERRILLA MARKETING and the GREAT MOONINITE PANIC of 2007 : or How a tiny LED sign turned a city upside down. (aussie.zone)
👉 Boston.com article...
TIL of the CLOACA PROFESSIONAL : a large art installation that turns food into feces. (aussie.zone)
👉Wim Delvoye wiki...
TIL about Moonbow: Nature's Rare and Beautiful Phenomenon Similar to Rainbow (upload.wikimedia.org)
A moonbow is a rare and stunning natural phenomenon that occurs when moonlight is refracted and reflected off water droplets in the air, creating a colorful arc of light in the night sky. Similar to a rainbow, moonbows are formed when light is dispersed into its various colors, but they are much rarer and more elusive, as they...
TIL: A simple rubber glove will get pet hair out of fabrics (lemmy.world)
This works way better than you might expect.
TIL of PISS CHRIST: a controversial depiction of a crucifix immersed in urine created by artist and photographer Andres Serrano (aussie.zone)
Immersion (Piss Christ) WikiA 1987 photograph by the American artist and photographer Andres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a small glass tank of the artist’s urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art’s “Awards in the Visual Arts” competition,[1] which was...
TIL of the UNDER THE INFLUENCE series in which artist Bryan Saunders took a different drug everyday and drew a self portrait. (aussie.zone)
👉BoredPanda article with portraits...
TIL of ROGUE TAXIDERMY: an art movement using traditional elements of taxidermy in an unconventional manner. (aussie.zone)
An introduction to the rogue revolution...
TIL about a collection of math problems, known as “The Millennium Problems” that will earn the solver a $1 million prize (www.claymath.org)
A collection of mysterious and unsolved math problems, also known as “The Millennium Problems” are 7 extremely challenging and complex mathematical problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. Solving any of these problems would not only advance our understanding of mathematics but also earn the solver a...
TIL of BILLBOARD LIBERATION FRONT : An artist guerrilla group that alters billboards by changing key words to radically alter the message, often to an anti-corporate message. (aussie.zone)
👉A beginners guide to brandalism...
TIL in May 1864 the first record of electronic spam was sent by a dentist in London (lemmy.world)
TIL Survival Research Laboratories is a performance art group that pioneered large scale machine performances. They put on noisy, violent, and destructive shows that can be very dangerous to audiences (aussie.zone)
Mark Pauline is an undisputed mastermind when it comes to sticking it to the man. For the past thirty years, he’s been mesmerizing audiences and machinophiles around the world with his terrifying and satirical machine-based performances. Offering an alternative outlet for would-be war machines and their engineers, Pauline’s...
TIL - Pandanus tectorius, also known as Hala fruit, has segmented, large fruits with a diameter of 4–20 cm and a length of 8–30 cm. The fruits are made up of 38–200 wedge-like keys (phalanges) (midi.moe)
TIL Some horses can grow a moustache (lemmy.ca)
Link with more horsestaches.
TIL the former host of HQ Trivia quit media and now sells vintage Johnnie Cochran shirts for a living (lemmy.world)
Went down the internet rabbit hole tonight. Looks like the guy quit doing entertainment, opened a vintage clothing store, and now sells overpriced ugly t-shirts to hipsters.
TIL About the Loudest plane Developed in USA (Thunderscreech) (lemmy.world)
Basically, the “Thunderscreech” was one of the most weird planes developed during the Cold War. The idea was combine the high climbing rates of motors with propellers and the supersonic speeds of jets… The problem? In the tip of propellers, the air move much faster, thus, creating shock waves, producing noise capable of...
TIL that the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. (lemmy.world)
When Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, he did paint her eyebrows, but over time, they wore away due to cleaning and maintenance to the point where it’s no longer visible today.
