#TIL "Professional olive oil tasters use special blue glasses to block the color of the olive oil for this same reason: color is not an indicator of quality."
https://brightland.co/blogs/field-notes/olive-oil-color

#TIL "Professional olive oil tasters use special blue glasses to block the color of the olive oil for this same reason: color is not an indicator of quality."
https://brightland.co/blogs/field-notes/olive-oil-color
V devatenáctém století si zámožní statkáři najímali živé zahradní trpaslíky. Podmínkou bylo žít několik let v osamění na zahradách v různých chatičkách nebo jeskynních a nesmět se s návštěvníky bavit. Údajně to souznilo s tehdejším melancholismem, který byl v období romantismu pojímán pozitivně jako doklad intelektu, proto si na své honosné zahrady pořizovali živou reprezentaci v podobě lidského ornamentu. #TIL
TIL the Amish have one of the least allergic populations in the developed world.
It’s strange to me that Thursdays are almost always my breakthrough/clarity day. Sneaks up on me. Grateful, but that means 3 preceding days of wrangling and hair pulling every week. #til #designprocess
#TIL "Berries are a key ingredient in pemmican, a calorically dense, highly processed power bar of sorts made of rendered fat, shredded meat, and dried berries that were critical to get people of the Great Plains through the winter months. The unsuspecting berries, which are a natural preservative, are a critical component."
https://www.sapiens.org/biology/human-evolution-food-processing-women-children/
#TIL: bei der arbeiterolympiade 1925 in frankfurt am main gab es unter anderem einen wettbewerb im "100 meter langsamfahren" mit dem #fahrrad. der gewinner hat 14:22 minuten geschafft! https://taz.de/!6101441/
Rizz means chaRISma !
#TIL #Etymology
J'essaye de traduire "onglée" en anglais et c'est l'échec. Mais y'a une grande variété de trucs que ça n'est pas :
Chillbrains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilblains
Erythromelalgia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythromelalgia
Cold urticaria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_urticaria
"Ulcerated chilblains are referred to as kibes." #TIL #wordoftheday #motdujour
#TIL that HTML anchors/<a>/links can be scheme-relative. I.e. refer to another site/host/resource with the same scheme/protocol. E.g.
<a href="//example.com">Scheme-relative URL</a>
Less typing and some more cryptic vibes!
#TIL today I learned that bison pronk
Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of the Interior, taken in Yellowstone
"Le soleil, qui a peut-être créé la vie, quand sa lumière était plus riche en rayons chimiques"
Allons bon.
Quoi c'est-y donc qu'un rayon chimique ?
(Edmond Perrier, La Vie en action, Flammarion, 1918, p. 156-157).
Update : c'est l'ancien nom des ultraviolets ! #TIL
"Prenant connaissance de la découverte des rayons calorifiques par William Herschel en 1800, Johann Wilhelm Ritter décide d'investiguer l'autre extrémité du spectre. Il constate en 1801 que le chlorure d'argent, substance connue pour noircir en présence de lumière d'autant plus fortement que l'on se rapproche du bleu, continue de noircir au-delà du spectre visible, ce qui marque l'existence de rayonnement au-delà du bleu."
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayons_chimiques
"Il qualifia ce rayonnement invisible de « rayons oxydants », à la fois pour montrer leur réactivité chimique et les opposer aux « rayons thermiques » (c'est-à-dire infrarouges), (...) On adopta peu après l'expression plus simple de « rayons chimiques », qui demeura en usage jusqu'à la fin du XIXe siècle, en dépit des allégations de chercheurs qui y voyaient un rayonnement d'origine essentiellement non-lumineuse (notamment John William Draper, qui les baptisait pour cette raison « rayons tithoniques ») ; mais finalement les termes de « rayons chimiques » et de « rayons thermiques » le cédèrent aux termes de rayonnement « ultraviolet » et infrarouge, respectivement."
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet#D%C3%A9couverte
I remember reading about how French revolutionaries tried to replace the 7-day week with 10-days in the 1790s, but I never knew the Soviets tried something similar. Both wanted to move people away from religious activity on Sundays (among other goals).
From 1929-1940, industrial workers in the USSR had staggered 5-day work cycles. Four days on, one day off, with 20% of employees off on any given day, and the factories never shutting down. It was a big increase in leisure time (1/5 instead of 1/7) but schedules didn't usually match your family or friends so the time had less value.
The experiment was brought to an end by the Nazi invasion in 1940 when they shifted back to 7 day cycles.
#TIL - you can knit a Granny Square
Knitted Granny Square
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/knitted-granny-square-2
And it's free.
I haven't read the instructions in detail, but it looks nearly indistinguishable from the crochet version.
I nervously went with my partner to my first open acro jam yesterday. It can be absolutely nerve-wracking to be a beginner in “open level” spaces where there are always people better than me! But it ended up way better than I thought, and I learned a lot of new tricks, including some that I made up with my partner (who is also my base)! #til
#TIL Il est possible de se faire des engelures aux cordes vocales (mais faut vraiment chercher).
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2025/07/frostbite-of-vocal-cords.html