TODAY I LEARNED (TIL) - thread

[bssunilreddy]

*i.imgur.com/bdpJwRr.jpg

 

[Anorion]

^ Fashion designers?

whoever made the first clothes

 

[ariftwister]

*i.imgur.com/bdpJwRr.jpg

Wrong Thread!!

 

[aaruni]

Wrong Thread!!

maybe he was a console peasant, and he learnt about PC glorious master race today ?

 

[ariftwister]

But his sig says otherwise

 

[aaruni]

Just playing the devil's advocate here.

 

[JojoTheDragon]

TIL i need to learn more exercises.

 

[Anorion]

TIL precious stones is India's most valuable export after petroleum products
*i.imgur.com/fnNzDoi.png
*commerce.nic.in/publications/anualreport_chapter3-2012-13.asp

 

[Anorion]

TIL the Mauryan, Gupta, Pala and Mughal Empires each ruled over more % of the world population than the British or Roman Empires. The most ever was the Qing Dynasty.
src : List of largest empires - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Anorion]

TIL bunch of new words, was just adding css text shadow effects so used random words to experiment around instead of lorem ipsum.

spizzerinctum : vitality or energy
sloom : sleep
jibber jabber : talk so fast no one understands
hoi polloi : aam aadmi
fresnel : lense to focus the light in a lighthouse


Also learnt css text shadow effects.

 

[Flash]

TIL, the evil clones of our superheroes.
if Bizarro is to Superman, Batzarro is to Batman.

 

[Anorion]

TIL in Jharia, Jharkand, a coal mine fire has been burning continuously for 100 years. Check out image search.
src: This Hellish Underground Fire Has Burned for 100 Years | WIRED

 

[Flash]

TIL in Jharia, Jharkand, a coal mine fire has been burning continuously for 100 years. Check out image search.
src: This Hellish Underground Fire Has Burned for 100 Years | WIRED

They're living on the volcano, literally.

 

[Nerevarine]

Think of the amount of energy we could have produced from that fuel, its could have made a significant bump in the GDP (or not)

 

[anirbandd]

Motoscala Tarragó Maquetas Escala 1/6

TIL of this amazing craftsmanship

 

[Anorion]

TIL

Dashrath Manjhi carved a path 360-foot-long (110 m) through-cut, 25-foot-deep (7.6 m) in places and 30-foot-wide (9.1 m) to form a road through a mountain in the Gehlour hills, working day and night for 22 years from 1960 to 1982. His feat reduced the distance between the Atri and Wazirganj blocks of the Gaya district from 80 km to 13 km.

Dashrath Manjhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Flash]

TIL Hammurabi's code of laws.

Here are some of the more unusual laws that seem very foreign to a modern society:

1. If any one finds runaway male or female slaves in the open country and bring them to their masters, the master of the slaves shall pay him two shekels of silver.
2. If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.
3. If a tavern-keeper (feminine) does not accept corn according to gross weight in payment of a drink, but takes money, and the price of the drink is less than that of the corn, she shall be convicted and thrown into the water.
4. If a son of a paramour or a prostitute say to his adoptive father or mother: "You are not my father, or my mother," his tongue shall be cut off.
5. If a son strike his father, his hands shall be hewn off.
6. If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out.
7. If a man strike a free-born woman so that she lose her unborn child, he shall pay ten shekels for her loss.
8. If a barber, without the knowledge of his master, cut the sign of a slave on a slave not to be sold, the hands of this barber shall be cut off.
9. If a slave says to his master: "You are not my master," if they convict him his master shall cut off his ear.

 

[TheHumanBot]

*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_rupee_note

 

[Anorion]

Costa Rica is now running completely on renewable energy

 

[Chaitanya]

TIL about Leidenfrost effect, the phenomenon that causes jumping & skittering of water droplets on frying pans..

Leidenfrost effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leidenfrost Effect Demonstrations