#TIL the top 5 hits in #Germany the year I finished #school (Abi '96!) were:
"Lemon Tree" by Fool's Garden 🍋❤️
"Insomnia" by Faithless ❓🤔
"Macarena" by Los Del Rio 🎶💃❤️
"Children" by Robert Miles ❓🤔
"Killing Me Softly" by Fugees 😑
I even looked up the Miles & Faithless songs. They still ring no bells. Fugees gets a 😑 bc it got overplayed for a decade, which soured me in it forever & ever & ever.
We do the Macarena at #Zumba sometimes. Still a banger. 😁
#TIL: Do not use your root domain name to test federated software, once you federate your domain is registered across multiple instances and relays, there is no way to rollback, you can't reuse that same domain with a different implemention, and even reinstalling the same service might break if you change the keys.
TIL how to enable the new Explore Logs app for #loki . Turns out the latest versions of Loki and #grafana don't work with it yet, so you have to specify the right versions and change a few other things in the Docker Compose config. It's so cool that this is open source and not Cloud-only.
#TIL: During World War II, Steinway built 2,436 special models of their piano called the Victory Vertical or G.I. Piano.
"It was a small piano that four men could lift, painted olive drab, gray, or blue, designed to be carried aboard ships or dropped by parachute from an airplane to bring music to the soldiers."
#TIL that #LLama3 (7B, Q4 variant) can be downloaded in #LM-Studio and used as AI assistant with my 5+ years old Lenovo notebook (without having a dedicated graphics card).
#TIL about Emerson Romero, a Cuban-American silent film actor, who "developed the first technique to provide captions for sound films, making them accessible for the deaf and hard of hearing".
"When sound films ("talkies") were introduced in 1927, deaf people were no longer considered potential actors; studios no longer included intertitles and deaf people were shut out of enjoying movies."
"April 19 is now widely known as "Bicycle Day", because as [Swiss chemist Albert] Hofmann began to feel LSD's effects, he tried to ride to the safety of his home on his bike. This was the first intentional LSD trip in history."
#TIL the woodpecker that I thought was dumb for pecking on my metal chimney cap, is doing that to attract a mate. Imagine if humans had to go through what birds do to get laid. Bars would be more interesting
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todayilearned@noc.social - TIL Ronald Reagan was nearly killed during his acting career when the chimpanzee actor in Bedtime for Bonzo started strangling him with his necktie. He had to be cut free by a crewmember.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedtime_for_Bonzo#Production](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedtime_for_Bonzo#Production)
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