#TIL "The code phrase "Mr Sands" was used in theatres during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to let the staff know that there was a fire backstage. (..) To prevent [panic], a codename was adopted. As sand buckets were sometimes used to extinguish fires, the code word Mr Sands was used."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Sands #WPPageoftheday
via https://beige.party/@djm62/116330039441731660

Man, biochemistry goes hard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_fold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_domain
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#LesVraiesQuestions #WPpageoftheday : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_rocks

"The Fools Guild is a California based social community that produces total immersion theme parties and other theme events. "
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Grâce à ce post de Yann Loïc Ollivier, je découvre les fantaisies aéronautiques des configurations d'aile
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_d%27aile
https://bsky.app/profile/yannloicollivier.bsky.social/post/3mi4bx4cc2k2i #WPpageoftheday

"He had friendly relationship with the Inuit in Alaska and Canada, as he treated them with respect and without prejudice. He was known among the Inuit as Bear Eater and claimed they voted him as their chief. This fact and others about his contacts with the indigenous population of the far north is hard to prove. It is not even certain if he knew the Inuit language, because his examples of 'Eskymo language' in his books are, from a linguistic perspective, questionable or almost nonsensical."
What a (so-called) life for a Moravian locksmith!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Eskymo_Welzl
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Peinture *sous* verre:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_glass_painting #WPpageoftheday

The surprising role of tea in the history of statistical sciences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_tasting_tea
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Le paradoxe de l'archer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer's_paradox
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#wppageoftheday : Weasel War Dance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_war_dance