Today I learned that LEGO has a program where you can send them your old LEGO (bricks, pieces, mini-figs, etc). LEGO will then take them in, wash / sterilize them, and donate them to children in need!
#TodayILearned that the delicious Mexican fruit sauce #Chamoy probably derives its name and recipe from the #Philippines’ “kiamoy”, which is a fruit sauce made with the same recipe. That recipe was in turn derived from a #Hokkien#Chinese recipe brought by Chinese immigrants, who called it 鹹梅 “kiam-mui” (literally: salted plums).
As a Hokkien descendant who loves #Mexican#fruit salads, this makes me happy.
#TodayILearned that #SantaClaraCounty operates the first (and only?) drug donation pharmacy, where they take surplus drugs from healthcare providers and give them away FOR FREE to anyone with a prescription. They’ll even mail it to you if you want.
#TodayILearned that Richard M Daley is even more awful than I thought. As mayor of Chicago in 2008, he sold more than 36,000 parking spots to a company financed by Morgan Stanley and the Emir of Abu Dhabi to operate for SEVENTY FIVE YEARS for the measly sum of $1.16B.
Today, the company has made over $1.6B back on its investment, and it has SIXTY MORE YEARS to keep raking in money.
This is possibly one of the worst municipal privatization disasters, because you can bet that company will use some of the money it rakes in to obstruct legislation that might turn Chicago into anything BUT a congested, car-centric city for the rest of our lifetimes.
“Chicago has a problem until the year 2083.” by Stand-Up Maths
#TodayILearned that Bing Crosby was the world's very first major investor in magnetic recording tape, specifically so he could record his daily live New York show and re-broadcast it in California later. He spent today's equivalent of several million dollars on the first experimental machines, thus allowing for more R&D and arguably laying the groundwork for the entire resulting computer industry. Thanks, @clive! https://www.honest-broker.com/p/how-bing-crosby-made-silicon-valley
I thought the gesture navigation was part of #Samsung's One UI but apparently it's baked into #Android 13 by #Google.
A friend of mine has a #OnePlus and the gestures are all identical. #TodayILearned#TIL
#TodayILearned that the first half of the brightness settings on my MacBook Pro makes a huge amount of change, and the second half makes very little change. You can easily see the switch between the two brightness ramps in action as you cross the 50% mark.
#British diplomats had known about #Hitler as a character, & the likely consequences of National Socialism about a decade before his ascent to Chancellor.
I just came across an interesting historical concept - the so-called "Gesinde-Dienstbuch" ("Service Book for Farm Laborers").
This was a pre-printed booklet with forms that would both serve to identify maids and farmhands, and list the details of their past employment.
Such details including the residence of their employer, the duration of employment, the reasons for leaving said employment (plus testimony from the employer), and verification and comments from the local police authorities.
From what I understand, these served a similar role as referrals and employer testimonies in the modern day.
"when the part of the brain which detects familiarity de-synchronises with reality (we experience) déjà vu . . . the signal which alerts you to this weirdness: it is a type of "fact checking" for the memory system.
But repetition can do something even more uncanny and unusual.
The opposite of déjà vu is "jamais vu", when something you know to be familiar feels unreal or novel in some way"
"In 1876, at the age of 27, she desired to marry an older lawyer who was not to her mother's liking; she argued that her daughter could not marry a "penniless lawyer".[4] Her disapproving mother, angered by her daughter's defiance, locked her in a tiny, dark room in the attic of their home, where she kept her secluded for 25...
And it has pretty robust browser support: https://caniuse.com/dom-manip-convenience
If you don’t care about IE or Opera Mini you should be fine. And in nearly no project anyone cares about these two anymore. (But for Opera Mini you should definitely check your target audience!)
The $$() method returns an array (not a NodeList like the Element.querySelectorAll() method) of matching items. #Coding#WebDev#JavaScript
#TodayILearned that there is a car/bicycle modding subculture in #NewZealand that focuses around installing loudspeakers (“sirens”) on cars and playing music as loudly and cleanly as possible.
#TodayILearned that the official #Thai name for Bangkok is Krung Thep, short for “Krungthepmahanakhon” (City of Angels, Great City of Immortals).
But that name is short for “Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit” (City of angels, great city of immortals, magnificent city of the nine gems, seat of the king, city of royal palaces, home of gods incarnate, erected by Vishvakarman at Indra's behest), which at 168 (Latin phonetic) letters, earns it the #GuinessWorldRecord for the longest place name on earth.
(Yes, even longer than Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.)
TIL that in industrialized countries, the most widespread contact allergy is to nickel, impacting 8-19% of adults and 8-10% of children, with women being 4-10 times more likely to be affected than men. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL about Blanche Monnier, a French woman who was kept locked in a small room for 25 years after she tried marrying someone her mother didn't like. She laid there in her own excrement, starving, for over 2 decades. (en.wikipedia.org)
"In 1876, at the age of 27, she desired to marry an older lawyer who was not to her mother's liking; she argued that her daughter could not marry a "penniless lawyer".[4] Her disapproving mother, angered by her daughter's defiance, locked her in a tiny, dark room in the attic of their home, where she kept her secluded for 25...