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Growing up in Indonesia, I knew these things as “jérigén”. Later I learned that it was a direct transliteration of the English “jerrycan”.
Today I learned that “Jerry” is a shortened form of “German”.
TIL: Octopuses, Three Hearts and Real Reason Why Two Stops When They Swim
#TodayILearned that if you do a .dissolve() on a #geopandas #GeoDataFrame "by" a certain column, it becomes "an index" thus, kind of hidden. You can regain access to it with .reset_index()
Also, when merging two gdfs it can be useful to first select just the relevant columns from one of them, in order to preserve the geometry column of the other...
...at least this is how it looks like how it worked for me...
#TodayILearned about the very first US travel guide. Published in 1822, it started at the site of George Washington's inauguration in New York City, then traveled to West Point, the house in the Hudson River Valley where "Last of the Mohicans" was written, a Shaker community next to Albany, the Saratoga Springs Revolutionary War battlefield, the Erie Canal, Gilded Age Buffalo, and finally Niagara Falls.
Follow along as we retrace the route one journalist laid out in “The Fashionable Tour,” from New York City to Niagara Falls, when memories of the fight for independence were still fresh
Today I learned June 7 is a World #Swift day. This is the kind of day I’m happy to celebrate!
Things I have learned today:
@JonathanBeak thinks she lives at the opposite side of town to where she actually lives.
#TodayILearned that the late Anthony Head played the male in that experimental series of 1980s commercials by Nescafe that told a serial story about a couple meeting and falling in love, a minor cult phenomenon back when I was in college.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/arts/television/anthony-head-dead.html
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