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TIL German mental calculator Gert Mittring broke the world record for taking roots when he successfully calculated the 89247th root of a million-digit number.
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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.
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TIL country star Merle Haggard got his start in music after seeing Johnny Cash play while he was an inmate at San Quentin Prison at age 21
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Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, and the true story that's almost too good to be true
Was inmate Merle Haggard in the audience when Johnny Cash played at San Quentin prison?Johnny Sharp (Louder)
#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).
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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
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.
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Up untill now, when I broke the boot I always flashed an #Arch image to pendrive, booted from it mounted proper partitions and fixed the mess.
From now on I am using the netboot ipxe.efi.
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Bees are officially a type of fish, California judges say
In a move that thrilled bee enthusiasts, California judges decided that endangered invertebrates are legally protected — under the category of "fish"Mia Jankowicz (Insider)
#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.
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Screens are NOT the reason kids need glasses 👀
Watch the new season of MinuteBody - and get access to both CuriosityStream and Nebula - at https://curiositystream.com/minuteearthWay more kids have fuzzy v...YouTube
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What you didn't know about ropeways
Part of my "mighty machines" series, this video is a VIP tour going deeply behind the scenes of the Gondelbahn (ropeway) Flaschen near Leukerbad VS, Switzerl...YouTube
