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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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reddit.com/r/todayilearned/com… Sunday, July 14, 2024 2:6:3. Public.

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TIL legend has it that brownies were created accidentally by a forgetful baker who forgot to add baking powder to a chocolate cake batter

cutecakes.com/the-history-of-b…
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The History of Brownies: From Accidental Invention to Beloved Treat - Cute Cakes Bakery & Café

Join us as we decode the history of brownies and key ingredients that contribute to the deliciousness of brownies. And if you're in search of delectable brownies, look no further than Cute Cakes bakery!
Cute Cakes Bakery & Café
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TIL Judith Love Cohen was American aerospace engineer who helped create the Abort-Guidance System that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts. When she went into labor, she took a printout of her problem to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished it before giving birth to actor Jack Black.

kottke.org/19/05/meet-aerospac…
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Meet Aerospace Engineer Judith Love Cohen

Judith Love Cohen was, at various times in her fascinating life, an engineer who worked on the Pioneer, Apollo, and Hubble mission
kottke.org
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TIL theft is so rare in Japan that people often use wallets, purses, laptops or phones to save their seats in cafes and public places, leaving them unattended while they go buy food or go to the bathroom.

soranews24.com/2017/09/26/the-…
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The method to save a seat in Japan shows how awesomely safe the country is【Video】

Leaving your belongings unattended to save a seat doesn’t mean you’re sure to lose your stuff, experiment shows.
Casey Baseel (SoraNews24 -Japan News-)
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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…

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The history of Peter Pan and Great Ormond Street

Great Ormond Street Charity
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#TIL: This actor from episode Citizen Joe of #StarGate SG-1 TV series is the english dubbing artist of Homer #Simpson, grandpa Simpson, Krusty the clown or Barney Gumble.
Dan Castellaneta as Joe Spencer character in Star Gate SG-1 TV series
Dan Castellaneta and Richard Dean Anderson as characters in Star Gate SG-1 TV series
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TIL the photo of Salvador Dalí jumping and painting while water and live cats fly through the air took 5 hours and 26 tries because they couldn't get the timing right. The "floating" objects hung from wires or were held up off-camera. Dalí’s canvas frame was empty in the pic; he painted it in later.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/18ucg0b/til_the_photo_of_salvador_dalí_jumping_and/

photograph by Philippe Halsman

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
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« 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 !

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Internet search engine

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
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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…

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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
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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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A photo of a round loaf of bread divided into 8 slices. It has a greenish tint and looks hard to the touch. There is a stamp on it, too.
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#TIL, Public toots that are replies to other toots don't show up in the Local Timeline.
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#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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A screenshot of Kate (KDE text editor) software with the HUD menu open. I have typed "save" in the search box and HUD has listed all menu items that has the word "save" in them along with their corresponding keyboard shortcuts.
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Interesting. Reason why so many people are short sighted nowadays is insufficient amount of natural light in childhood causing inproper eye growing... 👀👓#til
youtu.be/vbCobKbLJls

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...
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I flew during freezing temperatures for the first time. I didn't know they spray each plane by antifreeze fluid. #traveling #til
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