n3wjack, to random
@n3wjack@mastodon.social avatar

It's called Gen X because we were so hard into the X-Files.

steffoz, to Stoicism
@steffoz@mastodon.social avatar

"Recently, I've been trying to put into practice a less popular rule, the 100-Hour Rule. The premise is that with just a bit of proactive learning, one can elevate their competency far beyond the typical individual."

https://squeaki.sh/p/the-100-hours-rule?m=1

threecoloured, to random German
@threecoloured@skeptics.social avatar


Die Mayonnaise wurde 1756 erfunden.
Pommes vermutlich erst 1781.
Und Ketchup 1812.
Folgt mir für mehr unnützes .

emeline, to random French
@emeline@piaille.fr avatar

Aujourd'hui, c'est la Fête Nationale de la #Grèce !
Quel meilleur jour que celui-ci pour plancher sur mon itinéraire à vélo jusqu'à Athènes, à peine plus d'un mois avant mon départ ? 🔥

Evidemment, ce ne sont que les grandes lignes, et la faisabilité de certaines journées (coucou le col du Lautaret 🥵) reste à vérifier (bon, les Alpes, il va forcément falloir les traverser à un moment 😅).

L'itinéraire retour est aussi en cours d'élaboration, a priori 4 jours pour prendre le bateau depuis la Grèce et toute la ribambelle de trains jusqu'à Paris.

40 jours pour faire 3500km et quasi 30 000 (30 000 ?? 😱) mètres de dénivelé : on y croit ou pas ? 😬

emeline,
@emeline@piaille.fr avatar

Allez c'est parti pour quelques sur le voyage, comme mon CM dédié s'occupe déjà de tout retranscrire.

J'ai deux devinettes pour vous :

"Aujourd'hui, Emeline a traversé trois frontières et a été refusé à une frontière. Dans combien de pays Emeline a-t-elle pédalé aujourd'hui ?"

Et la deuxième :
"Si Emeline a pédalé hier à 22km/h sur une route plate qu'elle a prise en sens inverse aujourd'hui en roulant à 15km/h de moyenne, quelle était la vitesse du vent de face aujourd'hui ?"

😖😅😭

niavy,
@niavy@masto.bike avatar

@emeline
Poser ça à 23:00 mais CA VA PAS 😝 ?

helma, to random
@helma@mastodon.social avatar

10 for a joyful minute.

greenman, to random French
@greenman@diaspodon.fr avatar

Si on retire la corde de l'arc, l'arc devient une canne : c'est l'arcane de la tempérance des pas pressés

uselessfactsbadlydrawn, to movies
raindrops_and_roses, to architecture
@raindrops_and_roses@mastodon.social avatar

Hi! A week into this, time for an intro.

Raindrops and Roses and Whiskers and Kittens is an account of a few favourite things.

Boosting and posting pretty interesting, pretty and interesting things including, but not limited to (and in no particular order): , ,, , , , , , , , , , , , , and anything fanciful.

Tag to share.

greenman, to random French
@greenman@diaspodon.fr avatar

Il y a longtemps, très longtemps dans un autre univers de réseau social, je croyais que spoiler, ça voulais dire "pour de rire"

MichaelPorter, to Astronomy
@MichaelPorter@ottawa.place avatar

Another fun fact that will make people assume you don’t know what you’re talking about…

Yesterday (7:38 PM Ottawa time), the Earth was as close to the Sun as it gets. Yes, right in the middle of (Northern Hemisphere) winter! We are about 5 million km closer than we will be on July 5, the date of aphelion (farthest point from the Sun).

https://mastodon.social/@telescoper/111691847930681152

AnneTheWriter1, to HashtagGames

:
Santa's elves don't actually make any toys in their workshop. They make designer furniture, then use the profits from the sales of that to buy actual toys.

This way, they don't have to know anything about electronics or software programming, or predict the latest fads in the toy industry, or have their lawyers work out the patent and copyright laws so they would be able to make cheap knock-offs of big-name products.



szczur, to Rats

Rat fun facts!

Rats naturally produce and release serotonin. This makes rats smell incredibly nice, and inhaling it makes you feel better. This is, of course, a defense mechanism to discourage another creature from killing said rat -- but in our fucked up reality, we all sometimes need to sniff a rat.

And I highly encourage you to do that whenever you have an opportunity to.

INHALE THE RAT.

DebErupts, to random
@DebErupts@mastodon.social avatar

Al Gore held first congressional hearings on climate change, and co-sponsored hearings on toxic waste and global warming in 1976!

Nefisa, to random French
@Nefisa@mamot.fr avatar

Je cherche des fun facts sur la migrations des canards (ou des saumons, ou de tout animal vraiment...).

C'est pour un incipit.
J'ai pas encore trouvé.

Quels sont vos anecdotes amusantes sur la vie animale ?

(je sais que les wombats font caca carré, je l'ai déjà utilisée, celle là.)

greenman, to random French
@greenman@diaspodon.fr avatar

L’anémomètre ne permet pas de connaître le taux d'anémones dans un milieu donné.

uselessfactsbadlydrawn, to worldwithoutus
khalidabuhakmeh, to random
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social avatar

“Ass” is the only three-letter word that begins with “ass”.

croc, to Disney
@croc@mastodon.social avatar

Wow, Tom Hanks’ brother, Jim, has been the exclusive voice of Woody in Toy Story-branded toys and video games for 29 years. I thought it was Tom doing everything all this time!

https://youtu.be/n3YGneO6o9w

dmself, to gardening
@dmself@mstdn.social avatar

I planted some from grocery store , and on only a few days they have turned into real plants.

I have never grown sweet potatoes. This is just a test. The frost will kill these vines long before they produce.

This isn't like growing potatoes. You don't bury any of the fleshy part, you break off a long slip, and then bury it diagonally, with only a little bit above the dirt.

Like tomatoes, any part of the slip can become roots.

Three store bought sweet potatoes. There are stem like growths emerging from them. These are called "slips".

dmself,
@dmself@mstdn.social avatar

More : The and the aren't even related.

The potato is in the family. The sweet potato is in the family.

The potato is known to have been domesticated near the Andes by at least 2500 BC.

The sweet potato is much older, at least 5000 BC. We don't even know where it was domesticated: probably either in the Yucatan, or in northern South America.

There are many varieties of sweet potato, but literally 1000s of varieties of potato.

greenman, to random French
@greenman@diaspodon.fr avatar

Si on fait un pas vers chaque point cardinal de "non-sens", on avance quand même dans une direction.

mikemathia, to random
@mikemathia@ioc.exchange avatar
Kencf618033, to random

This is the centenary of the Beer Hall Putsch, and Eugene V. Debs ran for the presidency from prison.

afnic, to lacabine French
@afnic@mastodon.social avatar

Saviez-vous qu'il y a 355 millions de noms de domaine dans le monde ? 👀🪩

Découvrez notre Observatoire du marché des noms de domaine dans le monde 2022 sur https://afnic.fr/observatoire-ressources/actualites/observatoire-du-marche-des-noms-de-domaine-dans-le-monde-lafnic-publie-son-edition-2022/

Did you know there are 355 million domain names in the world? 👀🪩

Discover our 2022 Global domain name market study on https://afnic.fr/en/observatory-and-resources/news/afnic-study-the-global-domain-name-market-in-2022/

AnnaSaultron, to random German
@AnnaSaultron@nerdculture.de avatar

18 MC POV: Tell us about a time you had to let go of something you loved or wanted.

Kira: "Dad & mum as they died, my dad as he died. I lost contact to my mum. Tanja as she went away. Anika as she went M.I.A. No I don't think she is dead.
It feels different more like with mum not with the others. I know it in my guts."

A.S.H.L.E.I.: "Commander the facts paint another picture & your guts aren't scientificly proven. I am sorry."

AnnaSaultron,
@AnnaSaultron@nerdculture.de avatar

Unrelated Fun fact in German the word Gift, spoken exactly like gift is spoken in English, means poison...

While the creator of the .GIF format says it's spoken .Jif

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