What have you learned today?
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Today I learned that humanity landed on the moon a year before the first patent for luggage with wheels on it was filed.
kinda glad I never used tor, though no doubt other avenues served similar goals - may not catch them all but minimising what syphons I can is more stubborn class-ensnared spite at this point than anything else, realistically speaking
Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation
UBC researchers claim the universe can’t be a simulation, citing math that proves reality goes beyond computation and algorithmic logic.
or it would if the paper wasn't garbo that doesn't prove anything
Dat thumbnail though, wtf.
NASA's Voyager Spacecraft Found A 30,000-50,000 Kelvin "Wall" At The Edge Of Our Solar System
Temperatures there soar to an incredible 30,000 to 50,000 kelvin.
www.iflscience.com
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I volunteered/worked at a polling place, and it's hard work. I had to be there from 5:30 AM to 8:00 PM; it was the hardest day in my life. I stood for a total of around 12 hours that day with breaks, of course. I once had a professor who worked from 5:30 AM to 1 AM. I have lots of respect for people who do this type of work every year, which I am planning on doing.
I've done that (and my parents before me, and my paternal grandparents before them), and yeah, long day.
I used it in customer service as well...it's a bit awkward when someone says they don't like the NATO alphabet and requests a different one without warning.
I used it for work all the time - ISP tech support - and I never had anyone ask me for a different phonetic alphabet. I wasn’t aware there was any beyond the NATO one.
Well, the NATO one was a standarisation agreed to by various groups that had previously used their own. Apple or Able instead of Alpha, for example, and that's why it's Easy company in Band of Brothers, not Echo. Interestingly, various police groups in the US refused to standardise and still use their own different ones to this day. Because Murica.
New 'Lucifer' bee with devil-like horns found in Australia
The native bee was found near a rare wildflower, prompting scientists to call for the area to be protected.
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Apparently Virginia has their own version of bigfoot and they refer to it as the "wood booger."
Today I learned two things: That the Olympics moved from a starting gun to speakers on the starting blocks to remove the advantage runners closer to the gun would have, and one Olympic runner actually won by a margin thinner than the time it would have taken the sound of the gun to travel from the person he beat to him.
www.usatoday.com
Starting signal technology helped make Noah Lyles' 100-meter gold possible | Fact check
Technology for starting races that has been in use since 2012 to signal runners to start at the same time was a factor in Noah Lyles' gold medal.
www.usatoday.com
Zombie knives are illegal in the UK. Also "zombie knife" is a thing that is legally defined in the UK.
Which, ok, yeah, the UK likes banning knives in a nominal attempt to limit knife crime, but zombie knives do seem to be marketed at the sort of demographic of pratts one could be forgiven for thinking likes knife crime.
Which, ok, yeah, the UK likes banning knives in a nominal attempt to limit knife crime, but zombie knives do seem to be marketed at the sort of demographic of pratts one could be forgiven for thinking likes knife crime.