#DidYouKnow: A #Leap#Second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), to accommodate the difference between:
Precise time (International Atomic Time (TAI), as measured by atomic clocks), and
Imprecise observed solar time (UT1), which varies due to irregularities and long-term slowdown in the Earth's rotation.
The theoretical limit to human survival for more than a few hours in the shade, even with unlimited water, is a wet-bulb temperature of 35°C (95°F) - theoretically equivalent to a heat index of 70°C (160°F), though the heat index does not go that high.
If you ask Rick Astley for his copy of the movie Up, he cannot give it to you as he will never give you up. However, in doing so he lets you down. Thus creating the Astley Paradox
As an #Asian myself, I'm happy to see that ideas, developers, and software from #Japan are going mainstream. There are a lot of things the West, and the world for that matter, can learn from Japan.
Not only from the Japanese, to be exact, even from #Korean made software. I talked about last year how #Korea created its own Internet culture that not even #Google and #Microsoft can compete with. (See: #Naver's amazing interconnected platforms; what Google would have been if they had a vision.)
Pleroma itself also have a lot of forks, though not as much as #Misskey and #Mastodon. One such is #Rebased.
You can give the Rebased fork a try over at https://c.wtf featuring the #Soapbox frontend. (#DidYouKnow that the Soapbox frontend originally started as a custom frontend for Mastodon?)
It is a burning natural gas field collapsed into a cavern near Darvaza, Turkmenistan. It is thought to have been burning continuously since 1971. Its diameter is 69 m (226 ft), and its depth is 30 m (98 ft).
Le nombre 6 210 001 000 est l'unique nombre autobiographique. Cela signifie qu'il se lit à l'identique en acrostiche, c'est-à-dire en regardant le premier caractère de chaque ligne lorsque l'on décrit le nombre de chacun de ses chiffres. Il s'écrit en effet avec :
#DidYouKnow: #Madagascar is home to an abundance of plants and animals found nowhere else on Earth.
This distinctive ecology has led some ecologists to refer to Madagascar as the "eighth #Continent", and the island has been classified by Conservation International as a #Biodiversity hotspot.
#DidYouKnow that in Austria, no position in the civil service, or judiciary, or the military, or even the cabinet requires an oath of office?
Instead, you are required to make a legally binding affirmation ("Gelöbnis"), which however does not require the invocation of any supreme being. The law, where it prescribes the wording of the affirmation, only says that "the addition of a religious formula is permitted." So you can add "so help me god" or likewise, but you never have to.
The popular song “Take Me to Your Heart” (2004) by Michael Learns to Rock is actually an English cover of the 1993 Mandarin original entitled “吻别” (“Goodbye Kiss”) by Jacky Cheung.