#TIL: Just discovered that Yamaha's Reface CP is the ideal instrument to cover "That's all" by Genesis.
(In other news: Thought about hacking the Reface CP's sound system, but after some consideration and some tests, am more than happy to keep the original speakers: https://www.untergeek.de/de/2025/04/internal-speakers-mod-can-my-yamaha-reface-sound-as-least-as-good-as-my-laptop/ )
#TIL that when you dispose of the silvervine sticks which your straightedged princess of a cat sniffed for 2 mins before losing interest, you need to wrap them up real good before putting them in the bin
There's evidence of a shredded bin bag outside my house now, and I think I made at least one of my neighbour's cats into a silvervine junkie who'll spend the rest of his days out on that street, chasing that high
Rachel, if you're reading this, I'm sorry
Heribert Prantl versus Julia Klöckner in der SZ.
#TIL Weinkönigin ist studierte Theologin.
Prantls Blick:Franziskus und die Seelsorge der Bundestagspräsidentin
21. April 2025, 12:54 Uhr
| Lesezeit: 5 Min.
»Heute ist es so: Nicht die Kirche ist zu politisch, sondern die Politik der CDU/CSU ist zu wenig christlich. Und Julia Klöckner denkt zu schmalspurig.«
#TIL that the UK has elected regional "mayors". The Swedish equivalent, landshövding, is appointed by the government and can be deposed by the government. I'm not sure if there is any legal obstacle to a new Swedish government replacing every single landshövding with a loyal one at one stroke. Never happened yet.
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/local-and-mayoral-elections-2025
#TIL "A consistometer is a device for measuring physical consistency of a substance. It is most often used for foods such as ketchup and other thick fluid or semi-fluids."
Today I learned about Null Island, located at coordinates 0,0 on the map. Null exists!
#TIL that the German words installieren and einstellen are actually doublets. The French word installer (> installieren) actually comes from Medieval Latin īnstallāre where the second part comes from Frankish, a Germanic language, and is cognate w/ EN stall, DE/NL stellen. #Etymology #Germanistik #GermanicLanguages
#TIL folks eat pineapple, mayonnaise, and white bread sandwiches.
administered by Maxwell?
Post from @todayilearned: TIL that the death of a Pope used to be confirmed by tapping a silver hammer on his head and calling out his baptismal name three times. Nowadays, an electrocardiogram is used instead.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-death-what-happens-next-funeral-conclave/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1k4i6nj/til_that_the_death_of_a_pope_used_to_be_confirmed/
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#TIL about PBM, a monochrome image format from the 80's which is text-based (!).
Did you know about it @neauoire?
via @freedosproject
How often do you try pressing "?" to see the keyboard shortcuts available on a web app? It works in a lot of apps, both free/libre and proprietary.
When you want to rerun a shell command you ran some time ago, how do you usually search for it?
#TIL (today, I've learned), wie die «#SoftClose»-#Scharniere mancher #Klodeckel funktionieren. Clever!
https://www.wdrmaus.de/filme/sachgeschichten/klodeckel_mit_absenkautomatik.php5
Today I learned about the existence of MIT's giant flywheel, which reportedly has a right of way easement across Cambridge in case it ever falls off track and rolls into the sea. There would be no stopping it.
https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/object/GCP-00034920
Also, I learned what a flywheel is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel
What a world!
#TIL Le catgut des violonistes et des chirurgiens n'est en fait pas *et n'a jamais été* du boyau de chat.
(mais de mouton, bovins ou équidés)
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catgut
@BeazLouise shorb = shore birb? #TIL
> The last masters of Afro-Colombian machete fencing fight to save their tradition
https://globalvoices.org/2025/04/19/the-last-masters-of-afro-colombian-machete-fencing-fight-to-save-their-tradition/
"Pavlov’s experiments were funded in part by the public sale of the gastric juice of dogs as a cure for chronic indigestion in humans."
#TIL #histsci #histmed
https://kingdomofdogs.org.uk/gastric-juice-for-sale
