Logan 5 and 999 others<p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/TheMoreYouKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMoreYouKnow</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> <br>"Vinegaroons are an ancient amalgam of various arachnid bits and pieces that have been doing what they do since long before dinosaurs had their time in the sun.</p><p>While pretty terrifying to look at, they’re actually harmless to humans, aside from a strong-smelling acid spray from their back ends."</p><p>An interesting insect worth checking out. <br><a href="https://factanimal.com/vinegaroon/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">factanimal.com/vinegaroon/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
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Logan 5 and 999 others<p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/TheMoreYouKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMoreYouKnow</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> <br>Have any of you heard of a Quincunx? Well, I had to look it up. For one thing, it's the 5 notches that make up the "5" on dice. <br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincunx" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincunx</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>A quincunx is also a 150° angle (within an 8° orb) between zodiac signs that are five signs apart. <br><a href="https://www.astrology.com/article/quincunx-astrology/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">astrology.com/article/quincunx</span><span class="invisible">-astrology/</span></a></p><p>It's also an amazing machine that shows the laws of probability. Here's an easy game you can play. <br><a href="https://www.mathsisfun.com/data/quincunx.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mathsisfun.com/data/quincunx.h</span><span class="invisible">tml</span></a></p>
Martin Rundkvist<p><a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> that Lumparn, the big round sea inlet in the south-east of the main Åland land mass, is an impact crater. Just like Lake Siljan in Sweden.</p><p><a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a></p>
Kit Bashir<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://birdbutt.com/@colinstu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>colinstu</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kind.social/@PurpleJillybeans" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>PurpleJillybeans</span></a></span> could it be <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> (which stands for “Today I Learned…”). I have also used LTK (qv. <a href="https://xkcd.com/1053/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">xkcd.com/1053/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>)</p>
NaClKnight is still Black AF<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> <br> i dislike the feeling and sound of "creamy" <a href="https://c.im/tags/keyboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>keyboard</span></a> switches.</p><p>Going back to my clickity clackity high actuation force switches immediately. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/mechanicalkeyboards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mechanicalkeyboards</span></a></p>
Flo Kosiol<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> You can use imagemagick to combine all images (e.g. jpg) of a folder to a single PDF. </p><p>convert *.jpg result.pdf</p>
Lyle Solla-Yates<p><a href="https://cville.online/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> a lot of famous 90s dance music was sung by <a href="https://cville.online/tags/MarthaWash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarthaWash</span></a> “The Most Famous Unknown Singer of the '90s" but not credited to her because producers feared that her body shape would hurt record sales <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Wash" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_W</span><span class="invisible">ash</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/EverybodyDanceNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EverybodyDanceNow</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/dance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dance</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/90s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>90s</span></a></p>
Johannes<p>Today I learned that (optic) computer mice relay movement by taking thousands of tiny images of the underlying surface and computing the pixel shift.<br>Essentially, minute patterns (scratches, irregularities, fibres etc.) are illuminated by the little light shining from the mouse underside - which is why most optical mice don’t work well on reflective surfaces. A camera then (constantly) captures monochrome images of only a few pixels. As the mouse is moved, subsequent images will have some overlap in one direction - which then allows calculating the path the cursor should take on the fly. Not only does this process have to be very fast, everything including the illumination is handled so energy efficiently that it can run a year on an AA battery.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_mouse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_</span><span class="invisible">mouse</span></a></p><p>Even though I use algorithms to calculate how images have shifted position at work nearly every day (multiplexed microscopy), I had never realised this was how optical mice work. Now I have newfound respect for the little buggers. </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/til" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>til</span></a></p>
Crystal Huff (they/them)<p>Wow. Today I learned that "durian harvester" is the most terrifying job I can personally imagine -- spiky hard thing rushes down at you from very high in the tree and you have to catch it without damaging it. O.o </p><p><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@panida_koy43/video/7497159673976540437?_r=1&_t=ZT-8xOxgOMgKed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tiktok.com/@panida_koy43/video</span><span class="invisible">/7497159673976540437?_r=1&_t=ZT-8xOxgOMgKed</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/TIl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIl</span></a> <a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/fruit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fruit</span></a> <a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/asia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asia</span></a> <a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/durian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>durian</span></a> <a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>work</span></a></p>
Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦<p><a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> Alanis Morissette wrote the intro to No Bad Parts & has co-led retreats with Internal Family Systems' Dick Schwartz. <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/ifs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ifs</span></a></p><p>“I have 14 different opinions about one thing.” … (lyrics include: I’m high, but I’m grounded / I’m sane, but I’m overwhelmed), … </p><p>“I constantly reference multiple intelligences, … kids say, ‘I’m really dumb.’ … I’m just like, ‘What do you mean? Where are your intelligences? </p><p>Interview: on addiction, midlife liberation & the predatory 90s<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/21/alanis-morissette-interview-sex-addiction-midlife-liberation-and-the-predatory-90s?CMP=insidesaturday_email" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/music/2025/jun</span><span class="invisible">/21/alanis-morissette-interview-sex-addiction-midlife-liberation-and-the-predatory-90s?CMP=insidesaturday_email</span></a></p>
Will 🏳️🌈<p>TIL Apple's Memoji feature is a very powerful form of gender expression! For example, this avatar is just how I see myself, although I can't get very close IRL to it.</p><p>For those who don't know, Memoji's allow you to build body features, especially facial details, and they can translate to different poses and facial expressions, even with animations.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Memoji" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Memoji</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/GenderExpression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenderExpression</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Pride2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pride2025</span></a></p>
Chris Neklason<p><a href="https://montereybay.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> that an 86-acre ranch in southern Nevada County, California, was donated to the Nevada Joint Union High School District, who will be utilizing it for workforce development and as a community hub.</p><p><a href="https://www.theunion.com/news/student-interns-make-the-cut-to-lead-ranch-donated-to-school-district/article_966112d2-de62-403c-9b76-962e7388e211.html?utm_source=californialocal.com&utm_medium=californialocal&utm_campaign=CaliforniaLocal" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theunion.com/news/student-inte</span><span class="invisible">rns-make-the-cut-to-lead-ranch-donated-to-school-district/article_966112d2-de62-403c-9b76-962e7388e211.html?utm_source=californialocal.com&utm_medium=californialocal&utm_campaign=CaliforniaLocal</span></a></p>
Lyle Solla-Yates<p><a href="https://cville.online/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> NASA launched a satellite dedicated to studying different kinds of plankton across the world, a subject we know upsettingly little about as we race to change the conditions they depend on for life <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankton,_Aerosol,_Cloud,_ocean_Ecosystem" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankton</span><span class="invisible">,_Aerosol,_Cloud,_ocean_Ecosystem</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/PACE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PACE</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/plankton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plankton</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a></p>
Joseph Meyer<p>Loose Association</p><p>Today I learned “not my circus, not my monkeys” is a Polish expression and its abbreviation as NMCNMM is a fashion brand from Hamburg, Germany. <a href="https://c.im/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a></p>
AxWax<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@limebar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>limebar</span></a></span> Not a particularly elaborate "trick", but Winx - Don't Laugh has a locked groove of a "Lachsack" (laugh bag) that loops perfectly and we used to mix on top of techno tracks.</p><p>I actually just found a video of someone doing just that:</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-PZGlXXZwc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=k-PZGlXXZw</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a></p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a>: The laugh on the og Lachsack is a guy from my hometown, Nuremberg, who chose a 1000 Mark lumpsum over royalties, which would have bagged him 12 million Marks. Gutted!</p>
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p><a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/til" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> about the <code>lazytime</code> mount option.</p><p><a href="https://smarttech101.com/relatime-atime-noatime-strictatime-lazytime" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://smarttech101.com/relatime-atime-noatime-strictatime-lazytime</a></p>
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@tripplehelix" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tripplehelix</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@dev_ric" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dev_ric</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@joel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>joel</span></a></span></p><p>P.S., <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/til" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> I learned about <code>$SRANDOM</code>, a 32-bit version of <code>$RANDOM</code>. How nice!!</p>
Paul Kuyper 🇺🇸<p>I was looking at <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Juneteenth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Juneteenth</span></a> posts to decide what I should say about this important holiday that I only learned about recently (which is pathetic but, I didn’t know what I didn’t know). </p><p>I feel that Juneteenth needs to continue to expand and gain awareness and traditions. </p><p>Then, I ran across this post. <br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> another new pice of information (about #88 after looking it up). This seems beyond “dog whistle” level, right? <a href="https://mastodon.social/@MugsysRapSheet/114711623284779408" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@MugsysRapShee</span><span class="invisible">t/114711623284779408</span></a></p>
Eric Likness<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>vagina_museum</span></a></span> Love that anonymous data collection, and easy visualization. 👍<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a></p>
Jeremiah Lee<p><a href="https://alpaca.gold/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> there is a gendered form of ‘director’: directrice.</p>
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