20/01/2025:
- Dragging a file into terminal.app on Mac will give you its file path. Handy!
11/01/2025:
- Crocodiles have figured out how to look like drowning people so that people come and attempt to save them
01/01/2025:
- The first 2 letters of license plates in the UK tell you where the car was registered.
19/12/2024:
- Eggnog, if made properly can be shelf stable for years (in a fridge anyway) - https://youtu.be/pUw4u5zIXDg?si=zwlwb_1GtsVOtSpB
08/11/2024:
- Only blind people are allowed to do massages in Korea
12/2/2023:
- Mumbai is the city with the most English speaking people
9/2/23:
- Linus Torvalds invented Linux and named it after himself, he also named git after himself as he is a bit of a git
1/2/23:
- 1 in 29 people in Cheltenham are millionaires
17/1/23:
- the first Ska song was called Easy Snappin and was recorded in Jamaica when people who ran Jamaican sound systems couldn’t get their hands on American R&B records anymore.
8/2/22:
- Italy doesn’t have juries at trials
22/1/22:
- Akala’s sister is Ms Dynamite
7/1/22:
- Chinese doesn’t have a concept of “alphabetical order” instead it’s number of strokes in the symbol. This meant at the Beijing Olympic opening ceremony teams came out in a seemingly random order
3/1/22:
- Kevin Bacon’s dad, Edmund, was the architect of Love park in Philly
19/5/21:
- The feeling of bleh has a name - Languishing
7/4/21:
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There’s a genetic disease that makes it impossible for you to sleep. Fatal familial insomnia.