#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.

hxxps://www.tiktok.com/@etchaskej/video/7198690306009795886

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?)

https://lemmy.zip/post/61574409

TIL that Fibonacci used his famous sequence to try to calculate the population growth of rabbits (bun alert?) - Lemmy.zip

The other interesting tidbit here is that the “Fibonacci” sequence had already been described in India over 1000 years before Fibonacci.

#TodayILearned about https://codebrowser.dev/ "an online #C, C++, #Rust & Dart #code browser. It focuses on improving the code navigation with proper semantic highlighting and tooltips." Thanks @kdab !
Explore C, C++, Rust & Dart code on the web

Codebrowser homepage

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.

#TodayILearned #TIL

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

Angola - Country Profile | OpenFactBook World Factbook

Angola: Population 38.98M, GDP $80.40B, Capital Luanda. Comprehensive country profile with geography, economy, government data and more.

#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.

https://www.retrometrookc.org/collections/i-m-pei-plan/

I.M. Pei Plan - Retro Metro OKC

Retro Metro OKC

#TodayILearned #TIL #F1

Damon Hill played guitar… on Def Leppard’s Euphoria track on Euphoria! 🤯
I had to check it was the same Damon! And it’s not his only musical credit.

“Music career
Hill was interested in music from an early age and formed the punk band the "Hormones" with some friends while at school. After achieving success in Formula One, he was able to play guitar with several famous musicians, including his friend George Harrison, and appeared on "Demolition Man", the opening track of Def Leppard's 1999 album Euphoria. "I'm quite proud of that one to be honest", Hill told the Fuelling Around podcast. "You can actually hear my guitar as they fade it out towards the end of the song. I think it fits well with the track and it went platinum!"[107]
Hill also made a regular appearance at the British Grand Prix alongside other Formula One musicians such as Eddie Jordan. After his retirement at the end of the 1999 season, Hill devoted more time to music and played with Pat Cash's Wild Colonial Boys.[108] Hill also formed his own band, The Conrods, which was active between 1999 and 2003 and played cover versions of well-known songs from The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and The Kinks. Since becoming president of the BRDC in 2006, Hill says he has stopped playing the guitar, being "too busy doing school runs and looking after pets."[109]”
Extracted from Wikipedia now.
#DamonHill #DefLeppard #Euphoria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zneK9t0smqo
Unfortunately, the official youtube video does not contain footage of the recording.

Demolition Man

YouTube

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