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 the word "vamoose" is an Americanization of the Spanish word "vamos" for "let's go".
Obligatory vamoose you little varmint.
TIL past psilocybin use is strongly associated with working less overtime hours (www.tandfonline.com)
TIL that the album "Songs for the Deaf" by Queens of the Stone Age has a hidden track before Track #1 (en.m.wikipedia.org)
TIL South Carolina grows more than twice as many peaches than Georgia (www.statista.com)
TIL The average POTUS has been charged with two felonies. (thepoliticswatcher.com)
TIL: The CDC estimates that 5 percent of all hospital admissions result in a healthcare-associated infection, culminating in approximately 722,000 infections and 75,000 deaths each year (epi.dph.ncdhhs.gov)
TIL Spiders might dream. New study finds evidence of REM-like movement in arachnids (boingboing.net)
TIL Bob Barker was an enrolled member of the Sioux Tribe and grew up on a reservation in South Dakota (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL of the CLOACA PROFESSIONAL : a large art installation that turns food into feces. (aussie.zone)
👉Wim Delvoye wiki...
TIL that player behaviors to a software bug that created a pandemic in World of Warcraft had similarities to COVID-19 in the real world (en.wikipedia.org)
… researchers noted the similarities between the game and the real-world pandemics. Both had an immediate impact on dense urban areas, which limited the effectiveness of containment procedures in stopping the spread of disease, while air travel, like fast travel, allowed infections to spread across large parts of the world...
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 The first recorded human death by robot was in 1979 when 25-year-old Ford Motor assembly line worker Robert William was struck by an arm of a malfunctioning one-ton robot (www.wikiwand.com)
Williams was one of three operators of the parts retrieval system, a five-story robot built by the Unit Handling Systems division of Litton Industries. The robot was designed to retrieve castings from high density storage shelves at the Flat Rock plant. Part of the machine included one-ton transfer vehicles, which were carts on...
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 The name "flashlight" came from the first lights that could only briefly illuminate because the batteries couldn’t hold a charge for long periods of time (blog.bulbhead.com)
David Misell, an English inventor, invented the first flashlight and patented it in 1899. It used three D batteries in a tube that was used as the handle of the device. The batteries supplied enough power to create light through an incandescent bulb....
TIL in Portugal you can get an unlimited national rail pass for €49 🚂
euronews.com/…/want-to-travel-portugal-by-train-n…
TIL - Henry Ford built a failed community called “Fordlândia” in Brazil, he planned it as an industrial utopia. (99percentinvisible.org)
TIL about Eugene Debs, a 1920 Socialist candidate who ran for President while jailed in Federal prison for sedition, receiving 3.4% of the vote at the time. He promised to pardon himself if elected. (en.wikipedia.org)
Eugene Debs, a Socialist leader in the early 20th century, ran for President five times. His fifth and highest vote count came in the 1920 Presidential election, in which he was running while in Federal prison for sedition. He received about 3.4% of the vote at the time (which included women for the first time since the...
TIL they somehow convinced Kurt Vonnegut to make a very brief appearance in a coffee commercial (www.youtube.com)
The entire commercial is hilariously weird. I don’t think Heart primarily used coffee to keep themselves going when mixing their album....
TIL Tupac Shakur was considered for the role of Mace Windu in the Prequel Star Wars trilogy. (en.wikipedia.org)
From the Wiki: According to former Death Row Records chief engineer Rick Clifford, George Lucas was eyeing Tupac to star in his return to the “Star Wars” saga. Lucas had asked Jackson to ask Shakur to audition but due to Shakur’s untimely death the role ultimately went to Samuel L. Jackson. The character’s bald...
TIL Chinese astronauts are called taikonauts
I thought that the distinction existed only between Americans (astronauts) and Russians (cosmonauts), but no, Chinese also have their own term. I guess Indians should come up with their own, as well =)
TIL three of the richest counties in the US are Washington DC suburbs (www.kiplinger.com)
TIL of ROGUE TAXIDERMY: an art movement using traditional elements of taxidermy in an unconventional manner. (aussie.zone)
An introduction to the rogue revolution...
