#TIL: There is a community run public transport routing service #Transitious.

transitous.org/

TIL Philadelphia Cream Cheese is produced in New York, and always has been since it was invented by William Lawrence in 1872. He named his company Philadelphia to market off of the city's reputation for high quality dairy products.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadel…
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hmmm, must have been because of the "new Math." But wow.
Post from @todayilearned, TIL that in the 1980s, A&W launched their third-pounder burger to compete with the quarter-pounder. Confused about low sales, they conducted a study and found that around half the participants thought a third was smaller than a quarter. The burger was rebranded to the "papa burger."

https://culinarylore.com/food-history:aw-1-3-pound-burger-failure-fact-check-are-americans-really…
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TIL that the reason that Mr. Rogers told viewer that he was feeding his fish as he was doing so was because a five-year-old fan who is blind was concerned that he wasn't, so he wanted to put her mind at ease.

misterrogers.org/articles/the-…
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#TIL that in 1929, JM Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, gifted his work's copyright to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.

"Through this gift, Peter Pan’s magic made an unprecedented leap from the realm of fiction into reality and the hospital began to receive royalties every time a production of the play was on, as well as from the sale of Peter Pan books and other products."

gosh.org/about-us/peter-pan/hi…

#history #literature #books #bookstodon #PeterPan #philanthropy

The history of Peter Pan and Great Ormond Street

^{Great Ormond Street Charity}

TIL that in 1990, on flight BA 5390, a poorly installed windshield blew off, partially sucking the captain out of the plane. The crew managed to hold onto him until they landed, and amazingly, he survived.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_…
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TIL, Jumbo the elephant was not named such because of his size. Instead, Jumbo the word, meaning exceptionally large, was only introduced into the english language because of Jumbo the elephant. He was so big and so well known that his name became synonymous with size.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumbo
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TIL: a former Italian porn star, Carlo Massi, quit porn to do research in applied mathematics, got his PhD, taught real analysis, became a professor, and then got sacked for being a former porn star. He sued and won against the university.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Ma…
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Italian mathematics lecturer and pornographic actor

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

So apparently the term "patch" in software development comes from punched paper tape.

"Small corrections to the programmed sequence could be done by patching over portions of the paper tape and re-punching the holes in that section."

chsi.harvard.edu/harvard-ibm-m…

#til #computers #development #language #history

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* very few land places have a land antipode #maps (Image source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipode…)

« Je vais poser une question à CanardCanardVasY… C'est bizarre comme nom, quand même… »

Donc, finalement, j'ai cherché d'où venait le nom "DuckDuckGo" au lieu de faire ma recherche (c'était quoi déjà ???).

C'est donc écrit dans l'histoire sur Wikipédia : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuck…

Et… ça vient du jeu "Duck, duck, goose" qui n'est rien d'autre que… "le facteur n'est pas passé" : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck,_du…

Truc rigolo appris aujourd'hui !

#TIL #DuckDuckGo

TIL of the "Shoe Fitting Flouroscope" or "X-Ray Shoe Fitter" which existed in shoe stores up until the 70's - Allowing customers (mostly children) to look through a viewer at a live X-Ray of their feet, to see the bones of their toes and how they lined up with the stitching of the shoe's sole.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fittin…
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#TIL that one of the most commonly played street vendor “jingles” in #Mexico City was created by a father-daughter #clown team (English with Spanish).

Hoy me enteré de que una de las canciones de los vendedores ambulantes más tocadas en #CDMX fue creada por unos #payasos —un padre y su hija (inglés con español).

99percentinvisible.org/episode…

#Clowns #Payaso #DF 🤡

The Siren of Scrap Metal - 99% Invisible

Amid the noisy bustle of Mexico City, there is one iconic sound echoing on repeat in the background. A recording that blares from trucks looking to buy old household items and appliances, either to fix and resell or to sell for scrap.

^{99% Invisible}

Boot procedure of modern Intel CPUs #til

mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66109.htm…

This is a carbonized loaf of bread from Pompeii, 79 C.E. - preserved for thousands of years in the volcanic ashes of Mount Vesuvius. The baker left his stamp, which reads: “Celer, slave of Quintus Granius Verus." Celer is known to have survived the eruption, as his name later appears on a list of "freed men." Most bread at the time was baked in community ovens, so customized stamps were used to mark individual families’ and bakeries’ loaves.

#histodons #TIL #WeirdHistory #AncientHistory #DYK

#TIL in #KDE applications, you can use Ctrl+Alt+i to open HUD (heads-up display) menu.

The HUD menu consists of a search box that does fuzzy search in the menus.

This is particularly useful when you are looking for a functionality or something in menus but you don't want to go through the menus one by one to find it.

I wish @libreoffice and other software with massive nested menus can adopt this.

#TodayILearnt