Interstellar_1What have you looked up on Wikipedia recently?
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The new South Park is killing it (lemmy.world/…/2724a593-dda0-4d95-925a-3b24b6771fe…)]()
ComradeSharkfuckerI am reading The Conquest of New Spain
Boozilla
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toomanypancakeshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break
I was helping a friend with music production, you see
Very cool love that I have this bit of knowledge. Can’t wait I can bring it up organically when a song with it plays. I never even thought about how different beats or bits of songs have specific names. Anyone have that wiki??
NONEen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_guilt?wprov=sfla1
I saw Godzilla Minus One recently and I was curious about this.
Some random steroid, because a drug name came up in a video I was watching and I had never heard of it before. I thought it was going to be some sort of party drug. Turns out it’s for bodybuilders who don’t want the water retention of the normal ones.
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turdcollector69Harlem shake? Disgusting and degenerate
GreyShucken.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortina_d'Ampezzo
Because I became curious about why the car was named that.
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Limfjordenen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration
… because a Danish politician is talking about “remigrating” 50.000-100.000 people.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fighter_aircraft
I’ve been looking at modern fighter jets for some inspiration in my sci-fi world I’m making, and I was kinda shocked to learn the US is the odd one out for having a relatively small cannon with a huge rate of fire and 100s of round of ammo. Turns out most modern jets use much slower firing, higher caliber guns and only have like 100-200 rounds on board
Electron flow. My son had a test on electricity, and the dumbasses said that current flows from positive to negative. Which is dumb ass horse shit. Everyone knows that electron flow is negative to positive.
This legendary son of a legend en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Boozer
LORDSMEGMA
This might have been a link, not a search but still, enjoy.
I fucking love beavers!!
「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)A friend of mine posted a picture of a Halloween decoration of a skeleton man with a skeleton dog jumping up on him. It reminded me of a photo I’ve seen of the same but with real skeletons and it brought me to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Krantz
Didn’t realize he was a local Washingtonian who studied Bigfoot.
Porn actress Kagney Linn Karter. I recently found out she took her own life last year which was quite sad.
cRazi_man9 times out of 10 I’m looking up an entertainer, usually their filmography or discography. I find Wikipedia much more pleasant than imdb.
The nasal infix for present or very recent actions which was a feature in Proto-Indo-European. Best example is how vicit becomes vincit in Latin. (You'll recognise the first one from "veni vidi vici" and the second from "invincible". Both have to do with conquering. Or not being.)
It might also be the root of the word "now" in English, but the evidence for that is scant at best and it's not in the Wikipedia article. Ditto the n in "recent", which would be pre-PIE if true.
Also Linux kernel version history and smear frame to double check what I was talking about in recent Fediverse comments.
I’m using an old RC helicopter radio I bought eons ago to control a raspberry pi, so I’m reverse engineering the signal on the receiver side (which was surprisingly easy), and I got curious about the company in general.
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VanthThe article on Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish military genius and aid to Washington and the colonialists during the American Revolutionary War. He was in with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson too. Among many other things, he designed the fortifications around West Point.
He also led the “Kościuszko Uprising” against the Russian occupation of Poland.
My favorite anecdote from the article is that he was all about human rights. He willed a portion of his estate to freeing enslaved black people, including Thomas Jefferson’s slaves specifically. Everyone charged with executing his will balked at that one though, the money ended up going to education for black people instead. Still, what a way to get a final mic drop against a colleague from beyond the grave.
Mug Root Beer. I was trying to find out if the “Mugrootbeeroffcial” socials was actually them. Their youtube videos are nuts.
XiELEd
e0qdkYeísmo – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeísmo
The double L in many Spanish dialects turning into a Y sound.
I had no idea there was a name for it. Cool!
𝜯𝐞𝐡 𝜝𝐚𝐦𝐬𝐤𝐢Because yesterday was the fifth of November, I looked up Wikipedia pages about the story and person(s) that inspired the movie, V for Vendetta
The Wiki article about the Gunpowder Plot in particular was most interesting.
I like looking at tv episode guides and actor filmographies
Evkob (they/them)From Dante, to Jamiroquai, To Nazis, to the etymology of “tunnel”, to Caillou. These are all from the same day. I fucking love Wikipedia.
Harmoniousen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesaffelstein I heard a song by an artist I’ve never heard of before
SSTFThe Donner Party.
It’s inexplicably like my “Roman Empire” for dudes. I think about that tragedy near weekly.
That is so fascinating. I believe one of the survivors later wrote a book about it, it’s public domain and can be downloaded from digital libraries. I never finished it, but read a good chunk up to the part where they had to eat their dead trek members and leather shoe straps. It’s ironic that they were trying to take a short cut, but unfortunate circumstances stacked up and ended in disaster.
I’ll have to read it! We just moved to NorCal and joined our local library, so I’m sure I can find it there! If not, the Libby app!
My husband and I did the drive to Reno over Halloween weekend, and we went over Donner Pass.
Lemme tell you if you’ve never been, that section of the US is breathtakingly beautiful, but I could ALSO see how it is devastatingly, oppressively terrifying. And that was even with clear roads and little mountain towns sprinkled around. I got chills thinking about if there was nothing except chest deep snow, dying fires, and blankets to keep warm.
RebekahWSDThe conditions that created it (well, the weather) can be recreated in the Oregon Trail 2 video game!
Although it’s difficult. You have to really screw around to be as slow, otherwise you reach the pass before the storm hits.
Ooohhh never played 2, but I do get nostalgic for the OG every now and then! I’ll have to get this ASAP for cozy winter gaming!
Its SO crazy how much went wrong with that pioneer train. Murders and deaths even before they hit Hastings Cutoff.
By 2 I mean en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Trail_II this by the way! Not the newest one which I don’t think had two on it, but I gotta make sure.
On the easiest difficulty where you don’t uhhh pilot the train, you don’t even take the wrong cutoffs so you generally go so fast you hit the pass early.
I only managed the conditions twice or so of trying to do so! By having a drowning early lmfao. Then there was some heat stroke and some rattlesnake bites.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Ycuá_Bolaños_supermarket_fire
A pretty fucked up incident where hundreds of people were murdered because owners were worried about theft during a fire.
This was yesterday. High speed rail in Japan/China and in Belgium/Netherlands
I was watching an RMTransit video last night, and just realized how almost comical it is that Belgium and the Netherlands (which together is not much bigger than the Tokyo or Shanghai metropolitan areas) have multiple high-speed rail lines
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putumayo_genocide?wprov=sfl…
One of the many examples how imperialism and greed can turn things into atrocious shit.
