#TodayILearned "capybara" in Japanese is "kapibara".
This is good. 💯
I also just found out the kanjis for "capybara" mean "water pig"
This is AMAZING and my life is now a little better because of it. 🥹
#TodayILearned "capybara" in Japanese is "kapibara".
This is good. 💯
I also just found out the kanjis for "capybara" mean "water pig"
This is AMAZING and my life is now a little better because of it. 🥹

I figured I would state the entire argument in the title. After all, as of this writing and the last seven-plus years, the statement is accurate as far as the browsers are concerned. I am penning this as sort of a follow-up to my post from 2013, The Truth about…
#TodayILearned that there’s a town in Illinois called Pekin (because its founders were absolutely convinced that the town was the antipodal cousin to Beijing, China…which it definitely isn’t), and its school mascot was called the Pekin Chinks. The school elected two students to be their mascots each year—the Chink and the Chinklette—whose job was to wear mock-Chinese clothing during school events. This practice didn’t end until 1980.
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Во время тропического циклона Narelle небо стало красным из-за местной пыли, поднятой штормом. Частицы пыли рассеивали солнечный свет, усиливая красный спектр и придавая небу такой жуткий оттенок.
Крипово, но красиво
#todayilearned
TIL that Fibonacci used his famous sequence to try to calculate the population growth of rabbits (bun alert?)
Oh! I see... So, now if you're subscribed to a YouTube channel and they do a collaboration, with a different channel, it appears on your Subscription feed. Like, even if you had no idea the other channel existed.
All right, ok, that's neat-o.
I broke a drill bit last night. A tiny 2mm one for pilot holes. Did I drop it, or abuse it? Nope. I drilled the hole then slowly removed the drill perpendicular to the wall, and *ping*, it broke; most of it left in the wood.
I went to the hardware store this morning to seek advice (and another bit) and they said "yeah, mate. They doos that."
Oh, okay.
#TodayILearned that in the mid-1960s, Oklahoma City tore down almost 450 downtown buildings to make way for a grand rethinking of the entire business district, designed by famed architect IM Pei, but then never actually implemented the plan, leaving the entire city's downtown an empty wasteland for decades.