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TIL popular British sweet Terry's Chocolate Orange is a spin-off. Introduced in 1932, it came after the Chocolate Apple from 1926 and proved far more popular than the original product.
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#TIL - A Congressman was once sworn in on a #Superman comic book.
Some on the right are outraged that #Mamdani took his oath of office on a #Quran . But at least three #NYC Mayors have been sworn in on a #Torah , several elected officials have used only a copy of the Constitution, and Donald never touched a Bible at all when swearing in for this last term.
In 2023, California Congressman Robert Garcia (D) outdid them all. He took his #OathOfOffice on a #Superman comic book. It was placed in a stack of items that meant a lot to him, including a photo of his late parents and his citizenship certificate. It was a rare copy of Action Comics # 1 (first appearance of Superman) from the Library of Congress, so it did have historical significance.
As a Superman fan myself, I know he was taking advantage of the opportunity to hold a copy of that treasure in his hands for just a minute, and I completely endorse the idea. Buying his own copy would have set him back millions of dollars, but that brief moment of "geeking out" was free, thanks to our National Archives.
#MayorMamdani #ZohranMamdani #NY #DCU #DCcomics #NewYorkCity #ActionComics1 #SwearingInCeremonies #Religion #FreedomOfReligion
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Why this congressman is using Superman comic for swearing-in
When Robert Garcia is sworn in to Congress, he will have a vintage Superman comic with him.By Brandon Drenon (BBC News)
TIL: The pigment in the iris of your eye can rub off and break free. This is called Pigment Dispersion Syndrome. The pigment granules can then block fluid flow inside your eye, which can lead to increased eye pressure. For about 10-35% of those with the condition, it results in a form of glaucoma.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/pigment-dispersion-syndrome…
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TIL that Winston Churchill smoked 8 to 10 cigars a day from the age of 21 until his death at 90. He picked up the habit, which he believed steadied his nerves, while in Cuba for a few months in 1895, and stayed loyal to two Cuban brands, Romeo y Julieta and La Aroma de Cuba, to the end of his life.
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How Winston Churchill’s Cigar Habit Defined Him
The Prime Minister was rarely spotted without his favorite accessory — a cigar.Biography
TIL Australian light switches turn on by pushing the button down, which is the opposite of the US and Canada.
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TIL about Malik Ambar, an Ethiopian slave brought to medieval India at the age of 12, who then freed himself, formed a mercenary army of over 50,000 men, pioneered guerrilla warfare, and became leader of a kingdom/sultanate for 26 years
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#TIL SMB (whose most famous implementation might be Samba) is a little-endian network protocol.
It was originally develloped in 1983 at IBM and the first Microsoft version seems to date back 1987 (for OS/2), so I guess Big Tech is to blame.
#TIL that Mattermost is now offering its own bridge to Matrix, which depends on a Synapse instance running alongside the MM server;
mattermost.com/marketplace/mat…
This is what RocketChat were doing since about 2022. Although their documentation suggests they are working on full Matrix support inside the RC server itself, due sometime this month;
No sé si conocíais esto, pero yo hoy he descubierto que existe una fundación, llamada Anisfield-Wolf, que desde 1935 concede un premio anual en Estados Unidos a libros de ficción, poesía y no ficción que contribuyan a la comprensión del racismo y a la defensa de la diversidad humana.
Su lista de premiados es una buena lista de recomendaciones de lectura, os la dejo por aquí 🥰
#recomendacionesdejanadelbosco #TIL
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Recognizing books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and human diversity.Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
My @thunderbird regularly marks some S/MIME-signed mails with:
"Digital Signature is not valid!"
#TIL the reason: these mails are signed with sha1-algorithm which is considered insecure since TB 115.
There is a config to accept such signatures, see blog.thunderbird.net/2023/10/t…
However, I think the error message:
"There are unknown problems with this digital signature." is suboptimal.
Seems like an easy issue to fix, but on the other hand I was not even able to finde the appropriate repo. 😬
Thunderbird 115 and Signatures Using The Obsolete SHA-1 Algorithm
A change was made in Thunderbird 115.0 that rejects the use of the SHA-1 algorithm in digital signatures of S/MIME emails.Kai Engert (The Thunderbird Blog)
TIL about the bulk import functionality in django-import-export library.
django-import-export.readthedo…
Some caveats:
- set `batch_size` for better performance
- doesn't work with many-to-many relationships
- no `pre_save` and `post_save` signals sent (it' doesn't call `model.save()`)
#TIL that #Thunderbird lets me set #filters to move an #email to a particular place *when* I archive it, rather than immediately! So I can still read the emails as they come in, and then hit "archive" to have them automagically filed away 📁️
There are other triggers too, besides "as soon as the email comes in" and "when I archive" that I haven't explored yet. Thunderbird rocks! 
✨️
blog.thunderbird.net/2024/11/m…
Maximize Your Day: Make Important Messages Stand Out with Filters - The Thunderbird Blog
Worried about missing a crucial email? Thunderbird is flying to the rescue. Learn how to make important messages stand out with filters.Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
#TIL I learned that German cities used to have a "Bettelvogt" or "Armenvogt" - a minor official whose job was it to "control the behavior" of beggars and other poor people.
They were explicitly tasked to _control_ beggars, and not help them in any way. Which just goes to show that shitty behavior towards poor people by the authorities was well-established long before the advent of #LateStageCapitalism .
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TIL Roman ruins excavations led to a cat sanctuary
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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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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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