TIL that a Frenchman ate a plane (en.m.wikipedia.org)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/31e7c2b9-3af8-49c2-9483-d0eba629c56e.jpeg
Carrington Event (en.m.wikipedia.org)
TIL China now has a 3 child policy. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Maximum, that is....
Convection vs Conduction Vapes: Pros of Each (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Just a quick guide to help anyone understand some of the differences between conduction and convection vaporizers. Hopefully it helps people make informed decisions on what types of vapes they want!...
Bimbo (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Hostile architecture (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Snidely Whiplash (en.m.wikipedia.org)
From the article...
Pauci-immune (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Pauci-immune (pauci- Latin: few, little) vasculitis is a form of vasculitis that is associated with minimal evidence of hypersensitivity upon immunofluorescent staining for IgG....
Elefante de Luís XIV alimentado a pão e vinho (en.m.wikipedia.org) Portuguese
Pedro II de Portugal oferece elefante africano a Luís XIV de França. O presente é alimentado a sopa, pão e vinho....
TIL 40 states in the US charge you $20-$80 a day for being incarcerated in prison. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/19544496...
Pay-to-stay (imprisonment) - Wikipedia (en.m.wikipedia.org)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/18677335...
A Serbian Film (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Read at your own risk, as some reviewers wrote, you can’t unknow things once you learn them, and this movie’s description is all of the terrible things.
TIL 40 states in the US charge you $20-$80 a day for being incarcerated in prison. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Very weird that I am so old and have literally never heard this mentioned in a TV show or book or movie or anything....
TIL 40 states in the US charge you $20-$80 a day for being incarcerated in prison. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/18677335...
TIL about blindsight, a phenomenon by which visually blind people can apparently see or detect objects without using their visual cortex (en.m.wikipedia.org)
It was a footnote in an article I read about a monkey using blindsight and that there had been several experiments with humans proving blindsight existed and that surprised me. As a footnote....