#TIL about Internet Underground Music Archive, "the internet's first free hi-fi music archive", which "existed as FTP and Gopher sites, before the World Wide Web was widely used."

https://www.iuma.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Underground_Music_Archive

#history #internet #music #IUMA

Today I learned that Shel Silverstein once made an adult cartoon version of his popular story The Giving Tree. Entitled "I Accept the Challenge", it was about a naked woman who cuts off a naked man's arms and legs, and then sits on his torso.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giving_Tree
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1cdz2ga/today_i_learned_that_shel_silverstein_once_made/

Ah cool...TIL: rg.el has a (rg-define-search) function that lets you add custom ripgrep searches to the rg-menu.

#emacs
#TIL

#TIL you can detect if JavaScript is enabled with CSS 🤯

🔗 https://www.csscade.com/detect-javascript-support

The Cascade

The Cascade is a member-supported blog about the past, present, and future of CSS.

^{www.csscade.com}

TIL the Amazon rainforest was the result and product of centuries of indigenous soil management rather than naturally formed as previously supposed.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/pristine-untouched-amazonian-rainforest-was-actually-shaped-humans-180962378/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1c9j4mu/til_the_amazon_rainforest_was_the_result_and/

TIL Tina Bell an African American woman is considered an early grunge pioneer and is dubbed "the Godmother of Grunge" and "queen of Grunge" , her Seattle-based band Bam Bam was considered one of the founders of the grunge music scene. Future Nirvana Kurt Cobain once served as a roadie for the band.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Bell
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1c93l3d/til_tina_bell_an_african_american_woman_is/

TIL after losing her position in her university's anatomy department in 1938, Rita Levi-Montalcini set up a laboratory in her bedroom and studied the growth of nerve fibers in chicken embryos. This work led to her discovery of nerve growth factor, for which she was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1986.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Levi-Montalcini
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1c85jvt/til_after_losing_her_position_in_her_universitys/

TIL a bear, tiger, and lion were found together in a drug dealers house, all cubs. They became best friends for life

https://www.intelligentliving.co/bear-tiger-lion-friends-for-life/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1c6ttb5/til_a_bear_tiger_and_lion_were_found_together_in/

#TIL you can get the RSS feed of a specific Youtube channel from a lesser known endpoint:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID

You're welcome.

Today I learned about the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893 when a group of European and American businessmen overthrew the monarchy. In 1993 the US government apologized for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthrow_of_the_Hawaiian_Kingdom
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1c5vvi3/today_i_learned_about_the_overthrow_of_the/

#TIL The "Führerbunker" where Adolf Hitler cowardly committed suicide in 1945, is now a parking lot.

"This is how you properly honor history’s greatest monsters: not at all."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9WbOEWWBmg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrerbunker

via https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/112259117642076024

#history

The Site of Hitler's Bunker

In early 1945, as Allied armies advanced on Berlin and Nazi Germany lay in ruins, Hitler and his staff retreated to a bunker complex behind the former Reich ...

^YouTube

TIL that Mike Tyson went bankrupt in 2003. Despite having earned $400 million from boxing, examples of reckless spending included $6.3 million on luxury cars and $580K on his 30th birthday party. He has improved his financial situation and now receives $900K/month from his cannabis company, however.

https://www.unilad.com/celebrity/how-mike-tyson-went-bankrupt-and-rebu…
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1c26vic/til_that_mike_tyson_went_bankrupt_in_2003_despite/

TIL: Viking-era Scandinavians believed every person had a sort of luck spirit that could leave the body under extreme circumstances. The English saying that someone’s luck has run out is actually an adaptation of a Norse proverb. But when the Norse said it, they meant it literally.

https://slate.com/culture/2020/09/vikings-neil-price-children-ash-elm.html
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1bz2zf7/til_vikingera_scandinavians_believed_every_person/

TIL - There was a girls dance camp nearby when the atomic Trinity test occurred. The girls played in the falling white ash. 10 of the 12 girls died before 40.

https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2018/07/16/dancing-in-the-dust-of-death/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1byhwdy/til_there_was_a_girls_dance_camp_nearby_when_the/

TIL that David Cronenberg was the Director of Photography on "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back"

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/david-cronenberg-longest-movie.html
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1byb4b2/til_that_david_cronenberg_was_the_director_of/

TIL that since the invention of the automobile, cars have killed an estimated 60-80 million people and injured over 2 billion.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692324000267
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1bxf2du/til_that_since_the_invention_of_the_automobile/

TIL Dina Sanichar was raised by wolves in the Uttar Pradesh jungle in India until hunters found him in 1867 at the age of 6. He never learned to interact with another human being.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_Sanichar
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1bwi6uk/til_dina_sanichar_was_raised_by_wolves_in_the/

TIL that French mathematician Abraham de Moivre noticed that he slept more and more as he grew older, and predicted he would die on the day his sleep reached 24 hours. He did indeed die on that day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_de_Moivre
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1bvu8n3/til_that_french_mathematician_abraham_de_moivre/

Today I learned that on April 3, 1919, Yankees centerfielder Ping Bodie defeated an ostrich in a pasta-eating contest

https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/ping-bodie/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1bv35n0/today_i_learned_that_on_april_3_1919_yankees/