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Translating the Wikipedia page for Latvia into Sēlja šprakki (activity inspired by u/FelixSchwarzenberg)
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TIL The Windows 95 startup sound was written on a Mac. The composer, Brian Eno, has never used a PC in his life because he doesn't like them.
electricpig.co.uk/2011/11/23/brian-eno-spills...10
TIL The Windows 95 startup sound was written on a Mac. The composer, Brian Eno, has never used a PC in his life because he doesn't like them.
electricpig.co.uk/2011/11/23/brian-eno-spills...10
TIL The Windows 95 startup sound was written on a Mac. The composer, Brian Eno, has never used a PC in his life because "he doesn't like them".
electricpig.co.uk/2011/11/23/brian-eno-spills...00
TIL There are exactly 2 escalators in the entire US state of Wyoming. This means that there is one US Senator for each escalator in the state.
cowboystatedaily.com/2023/12/04/why-there-are...10
TIL In 1980, when doctors told Yugoslav dictator Josip Broz Tito he had to amputate his leg to save his life, he said he would rather take his own life. This stubbornness eventually contributed to his death, which opened a power vacuum and led to the collapse of Yugoslavia in the coming decades.
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In 1980, when doctors told Yugoslav dictator Josip Broz Tito he had to amputate his leg to save his life, he said he would rather take his own life. This stubbornness eventually contributed to his death, which opened a power vacuum and led to the collapse of Yugoslavia in the coming decades.
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![[Round 142495] write a regular expression (regex) that matches the highlighted characters in these strings. that's it](https://i.redd.it/5wvxq63rcmae1.png)
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TIL The country of Pakistan is named after five regions in South and Central Asia: "Panjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and BaluchisTAN", with an I in the middle for easy pronunciation. "Pak" is also the Persian and Pashto word for "pure".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan
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TIL In 1984, a Czechoslovak TV network aired "The Embarrassment of Chef Svatopluk", an interactive sitcom where viewers could influence the story by turning the lights on and off when the option they wanted was read out. The option with the tallest spike in energy consumption was chosen.
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TIL Macy's Herald Square, the site of the Thanksgiving Day Parade, has jail cells for alleged shoplifters in its basement. The Macy's security team has arrested multiple people under questionable pretenses in the past, and has been accused of racism as a result.
theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/01/macys-sh...
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TIL In the 1590s, a Spanish admiral made up an entire nation, complete with dozens of fake coats of arms, so that he could claim to be a nobleman and join a fraternity of knights. In doing so, he accidentally popularized the pan-South-Slavic movement, and caused the founding of Yugoslavia in 1918.
thenutshelltimes.com/2020/08/14/inventing-ill...
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