TIL ~62% of the atoms in a human body are Hydrogen, and are as old as the universe. ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL: You can enter into Immersive Reader mode in (Microsoft) Edge to reduce the number of things and CSS displayed on the screen. Great for when you need to study. ( support.microsoft.com )
I found mine at the right end of the URL bar....
TIL The fish pepper was thought to be extinct for much of the 20th century until the rediscovery of fifty year-old seeds in a family's freezer ( www.bbc.com )
The fish pepper (named for its common use in seafood dishes) is popular today, but it nearly disappeared altogether: that it still exists is thanks to William Woys Weaver, a Maryland author and ethnographer. In 1995, Weaver discovered a jar of seeds in the bottom of a freezer that belonged to his grandfather, H Ralph Weaver....
TIL about the social history of Jell-O Salad ( www.seriouseats.com )
TIL Ecuador has constitutional protections for the rights of nature, and those protections are actively determining environmental legal cases. ( amp.theguardian.com )
A landmark case was won in 2021 ruling against the rights of a mining company to mine los cedros' cloud forest, a high altitude rainforest, because it would harm the biodiversity of the area....
TIL abou the Amalgam Comics, a joint publication by DC & Marvel featuring characters that were a mix of those from both universes ( en.wikipedia.org )
About the comics: https://antifandom.com/marvel/wiki/Amalgam_Comics...
til Don Pardo worked as announcer on SNL until his death, age 96! ( en.wikipedia.org )
Dominick George "Don" Pardo Jr. (February 22, 1918 – August 18, 2014) was an American radio and television announcer whose career spanned more than seven decades. A member of the Television Hall of Fame, Pardo was noted for his 70-year tenure with NBC, working as the announcer for early incarnations of such notable shows as...
TIL: A South Korean software engineer commemorated a headstone for Internet Explorer which read "He was a good tool to download other browsers" ( www.reuters.com )
TIL the earliest recorded use of the @ symbol was from a religious text from 1345 ( en.wikipedia.org )
For cities of 1 millon up, Chicago is the most violent in USA ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
Chicago vs. worst ranking, based on...
TIL that the judge in the Carroll rape case clarified that Trump did rape Jean Carroll ( www.washingtonpost.com )
All the news headlines and verdict said sexual abuse, which was kind of vague, but I just found out today that the judge clarified that this was a matter of legal definition and by the verdict of the trial and the case, trump has been found guilty of penetrative rape.
TIL that .sucks is a valid web domain. As I post this, reddit.sucks is available. spez.sucks is available. trump.sucks is registered ( get.sucks )
Apparently, they've been available since 2014.
TIL that Jim Carrey was paid $7 million for ''Dumb and Dumber'', while his co-star Jeff Daniels made just $50,000 ( www.yahoo.com )
