TIL Thread: Today I learned...
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Kookaburras are also known for stealing meat from people during barbecue, even snatching them off the grill.
These birds don't give a fuck.
These birds don't give a fuck.
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Yeah I've been to many aquarium shows and dolphin sounds are super high pitched and squeaky. Not at all like the noise Flipper makes.
Also bald eagles sound like seagulls.
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TIL there's an equivalent to the Utah Teapot in the 3D printing world: a boat called 3DBenchy.
It looks like a playing piece for some kind of board game.
It looks like a playing piece for some kind of board game.
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itty bitty boat
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I've printed several of those. There are better and more telling calibration tests that show the problems more clearly but as a all-in-one test it's one of the more pleasant looking.
One can only print so many.
If you print enough you can print hooks that fit into the chimneys
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3231319
One can only print so many.
If you print enough you can print hooks that fit into the chimneys
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3231319
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but how well do they float on water
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They are somewhat front- and top-heavy and tumble very easily over. Technically they can float.
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Cute little tuggers
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TIL that Al Gore's daughter was a writer on "Futurama". She wrote the episode where Leela finds out about her parents.
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Al Gore was in at least two episodes I can think of off the top of my head. The one about global warming, and one of the What If ones that ends with the universe destroyed and Fry, Gore and a few others sitting down to spend the rest of eternity in the void playing D&D with Gary Gygax.
He was also in a few of the movies.
He was also in a few of the movies.
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I had a bird,
its name was Enza
I opened the window,
and in flew Enza
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Yesterday, I learned that the song "Tin Man" by the group America was called "Tin Man" and performed by the group America. Which is to say, I'd heard the song a ton before, but never actually learned the name of it or who performed it until yesterday.
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Anyone remember this gag in "The Simpsons"?
TIL that the platform shoes with live goldfish were real...and the fish don't tend to live long.
TIL that the platform shoes with live goldfish were real...and the fish don't tend to live long.
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How to stamp holograms onto chocolate
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Shakey’s Pizza is named after cofounder Sherwood “Shakey” Johnson who got that nickname as a result of nerve damage suffered during WWII.
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I didn't learn it today but at some point in the past I learned that if you cut a hologram in half, you get 2 smaller copies of the whole image
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Over a decade ago I remembered this web animation that went viral
This especially stood out because, for 2007, the animation was VERY good for something released on the web.
Anyway this made me wonder whatever became of the guys who made it. Well, TIL that they went on to become writers for "Steven Universe" then created their own show, "Craig of the Creek".
This especially stood out because, for 2007, the animation was VERY good for something released on the web.
Anyway this made me wonder whatever became of the guys who made it. Well, TIL that they went on to become writers for "Steven Universe" then created their own show, "Craig of the Creek".
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Today I learned that I really need to start mapping out the wiring in this house to avoid any nasty surprises in the future.
We've been living here for over a year now, and some of the choices the previous owners made in terms of wiring are strange at best. There's a bunch of light switches that do nothing and some parts where it's clear a change of ideas happened. For example, there's a light outside that's currently not hooked up as the wiring was recycled for a bathroom fan instead. The main wiring is still intact and there's actually a live connection going outside next to a switched wire that's just not hooked up. The other outside lights are all hooked to various motion/dusk sensors leaving a dead switch behind inside or outside. So far, I know which ones work and which ones don't, but I have no idea what they even might be connected to. I also need to go around and fix a lot of connections as the wires are literally twisted together in a lot of placs and covered with electric tape.
But the big thing today is that my workroom is a former bedroom and had some hideous bedside lights installed. I bought a LED bar to install as a desk light and decided to use one of those lightpoints as the power source. As there is a double light switch installed next to the door I assumed this switched those lights on and off (Despite them also having a pullcord). Never really verified this though, as the lights were ugly and in a useless location anyway.
So I went to remove one from the wall, and thanks to the neon screwdriver I was using (Yes, I know they're unsafe as heck but they have their use in specific situations) I noticed the live wire was still live. Switch did nothing for it, so I assumed the switch was just hooked up wrong, switching neutral instead of live. Turned power off at the breaker, installed and wired up the LED light, turned the power on, noticed the wallswitch wasn't doing anything. Ended up opening the switch and discovering there's literally just one side hooked up, with no other wiring even going in there...
We've been living here for over a year now, and some of the choices the previous owners made in terms of wiring are strange at best. There's a bunch of light switches that do nothing and some parts where it's clear a change of ideas happened. For example, there's a light outside that's currently not hooked up as the wiring was recycled for a bathroom fan instead. The main wiring is still intact and there's actually a live connection going outside next to a switched wire that's just not hooked up. The other outside lights are all hooked to various motion/dusk sensors leaving a dead switch behind inside or outside. So far, I know which ones work and which ones don't, but I have no idea what they even might be connected to. I also need to go around and fix a lot of connections as the wires are literally twisted together in a lot of placs and covered with electric tape.
But the big thing today is that my workroom is a former bedroom and had some hideous bedside lights installed. I bought a LED bar to install as a desk light and decided to use one of those lightpoints as the power source. As there is a double light switch installed next to the door I assumed this switched those lights on and off (Despite them also having a pullcord). Never really verified this though, as the lights were ugly and in a useless location anyway.
So I went to remove one from the wall, and thanks to the neon screwdriver I was using (Yes, I know they're unsafe as heck but they have their use in specific situations) I noticed the live wire was still live. Switch did nothing for it, so I assumed the switch was just hooked up wrong, switching neutral instead of live. Turned power off at the breaker, installed and wired up the LED light, turned the power on, noticed the wallswitch wasn't doing anything. Ended up opening the switch and discovering there's literally just one side hooked up, with no other wiring even going in there...
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Hire an electrician. Don't fuck with the electricity in your home unless you 100% know what you're doing.
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Emptyquote from the guy who got electrocuted in a swimming pool two years ago due to an improperly grounded pool pump.
Seriously, whenever you move into a new house/apartment/whatever, hire an electrician to come in and inspect everything to avoid situations like this.
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TIL that all (insect) roaches are cockroaches. I always assumed "cockroach" referred like a family or a genus of roaches, and "roach" was somehow more general.
Very math.
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TIL about the "most mysterious song on the internet", a song that was taped off a German radio station in 1984 and has failed to be identified since a clip was first posted online in 2007. Last year somebody managed to get a copy of the whole song, but also does not know the title or the band.
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Well, I actually am trained as an electrician myself, so that helps.
EDIT: The work of actual electricians I've seen here in Bulgaria is also dubious enough that it's safer doing it myself according to the standards I learned. For some additional context: The previous owner was a professional pool installer too, so you'd think he'd know at least a little about wiring stuff. Either he did all of this himself, or hired someone who did this, and both are actually possible and in their own way terrifying.
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TIL that Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin and Brian Jones were all 27 when they died.
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