TIL that a Frenchman ate a plane ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/31e7c2b9-3af8-49c2-9483-d0eba629c56e.jpeg
Carrington Event ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
TIL China now has a 3 child policy. ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
Maximum, that is....
GIF
Bimbo ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
Hostile architecture ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
Snidely Whiplash ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
From the article...
Elefante de Luís XIV alimentado a pão e vinho ( en.m.wikipedia.org ) Portuguese
Pedro II de Portugal oferece elefante africano a Luís XIV de França. O presente é alimentado a sopa, pão e vinho....
TIL 40 states in the US charge you $20-$80 a day for being incarcerated in prison. ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/19544496...
TIL 40 states in the US charge you $20-$80 a day for being incarcerated in prison. ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/18677335...
A Serbian Film ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
Read at your own risk, as some reviewers wrote, you can't unknow things once you learn them, and this movie's description is all of the terrible things.
Pay-to-stay (imprisonment) - Wikipedia ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
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TIL 40 states in the US charge you $20-$80 a day for being incarcerated in prison. ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
Very weird that I am so old and have literally never heard this mentioned in a TV show or book or movie or anything....
TIL about blindsight, a phenomenon by which visually blind people can apparently see or detect objects without using their visual cortex ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
It was a footnote in an article I read about a monkey using blindsight and that there had been several experiments with humans proving blindsight existed and that surprised me. As a footnote....
TIL the USA has "national emergencies" still ongoing that date back to 1979 ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
Chicago rat hole ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
Hokey pokey (ice cream) ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
Electronic voice phenomenon ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
West Memphis Three ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
Superseded theories in science ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
Marimo ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
Manhattanhenge ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
Apollon (strongman) ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
Volcanic winter ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
TIL about the 'River' effect in typography ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
In typography, rivers (or rivers of white) are gaps in typesetting which appear to run through a paragraph of text due to a coincidental alignment of spaces. Rivers can occur regardless of the spacing settings, but are most noticeable with wide inter-word spaces caused by full text justification or monospaced fonts. Rivers are...
