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TIL sailing ships commonly moved around without wind by warping ( en.m.wikipedia.org )

Warping is throwing an anchor either manually for a small ship or by rowing the anchor out and dropping it farther away for a larger ship. Then the ship would reel it to change position. Good for maneuvering in harbor. Etymologically related to "throwing" and essentially threading a needle across the sea....

TIL: How Private Prisons Sued The State of Arizona for Not Having Enough Prisoners ( medium.com )

TIL: The Chicken soup for the soul publisher owns redbox ( www.foxbusiness.com )

TIL humans are the only animal with a chin. We aren't sure why. ( www.smithsonianmag.com )

TIL from the school of OMG why didn’t I think of that

Alt milk tetra pack repurposed as drink tray.

TIL Private Prison stocks skyrocketed when Trump was first elected ( www.thestreet.com )

TIL about Wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic worldview of accepting the simple, imperfect, and transient things in the world. Similar to kintsugi (repairing broken pottery with golden paste), it's abou ( en.wikipedia.org )

Today I learned Choice VA was created after the 2014 VA scandel. ( en.m.wikipedia.org )

TIL that in Melbourne, a 1 : 1 000 000 000 scale model of the solar system includes a mini-Proxima-Centauri that is one-time-around-the-entire-world away at this scale. ( stkildamelbourne.com.au )

From the pdf:...

TIL That reddits "most addicted city" is eglin air force base FL ( lemmy.world )

https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/s/vMRsaTdMn0

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