Today I learnt, that a guy called
Kansan, has for the past nine years, been going through the decades and ranking films by the amount of gravy consumed, cooked or used in in the production of that film.

Spoiler: Breaker Morant has the record for the most gravy used in production. The "Pour straight, ya bastards" scene. Lawrence of Arabia kept on laughing, causing the scene to continually be reset. A record 374.4 litres of gravy ended up being used.

https://ifyouwantthegravy.wordpress.com/2021/07/21/the-all-time-gravy-film-awards-the-criterion-collection/

He also has a gravy music list. Where he ranks musical instruments by how much gravy they can hold, while still being able to play a recognisable song. Currently the tuba is winning.

His story about trying to rate the gravy capacity of a electric guitar and amp is hilarious.
Every one knows gravy and electricity don't mix.
https://ifyouwantthegravy.wordpress.com/the-ides-of-gravy/

“If you want the gravy, you’ve got to get the biscuits.” _
--Kansan

#Gravy #film #music
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#TodayILearned about #Chornobyl / #Chernobyl:

The city's name is the same as one of the Ukrainian names for Artemisia vulgaris, mugwort or common wormwood: чорнобиль, chornóbyl' (or more commonly полин звичайний polýn zvycháynyy, 'common artemisia'). The name is inherited from Proto-Slavic *čьrnobylъ or Proto-Slavic *čьrnobyl, a compound of Proto-Slavic *čьrnъ 'black' + Proto-Slavic *bylь 'grass', the parts related to Ukrainian: чорний, romanized: chórnyy, lit. 'black' and било byló, 'stalk', so named in distinction to the lighter-stemmed wormwood A. absinthium.
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl#Etymology

Also:

In English, the Russian-derived spelling Chernobyl has been commonly used, but some style guides recommend the spelling Chornobyl, or the use of romanized Ukrainian names for Ukrainian places generally.

#TIL #TodayILearnt

#TodayILearned that there is another sort of prequel to Stephen King's #DarkTower series called "The Little Sisters of Eluria".
Guess I should set aside some time to dive back into the world of Gilead.

#StephenKing #FiXatoReads #TIL #TodayILearnt #TheLittleSistersOfEluria

Today I learnt... that @v0 can take videos as attachments..
That means you can pass a recording of cool scroll animation you like and have v0 recreate it... Dope 🔥

#TodayIlearnt #NextJS

Today you learn about the Pingat Bakti Masyarakat. (Or, PBM, for short).

Malay language.

It's a national honour in Singapore.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingat_Bakti_Masyarakat

Perhaps analogous to the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, in France.

One of its recipients is the illustrious Louis Soliano, jazz singer (elderly and still going strong on stage).

#TodayILearnt #TIL

TIL about an incredible bird called the Arctic Tern, every year it flies from one side of the planet to the other and back again:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_tern

"Recent studies have shown average annual round-trip lengths of about 70,900 km (44,100 mi)"

A bird species that migrates 70,000 kilometres every year! 🤯

#TIL #TodayILearnt #TodayILearned #Birds #Birbs