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  • How do they determine what a "truly" random number is

  • I need help identifying this instagram typeface
  • Ok so! I've actually been to that page, and was thinking I had found it, however, look at the Q and the I:

    The Q in the table has a piggy-tail absent in the original, and the I has serifs, that's what threw me off. But looking at the table longer, everything else does seem to match...

    Weird, but anyway, I think we can conisder this solved, thanks!

  • I need help identifying this instagram typeface

    Typed on a Samsung device. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what typeset that is. As far as I could tell it's none of the obvious ones.

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    Ach aye, Scottish words for plants
  • Reminds me of this old 4chan greentext

  • Rubin Observatory to detect millions of new solar system objects in vivid detail, simulations suggest
  • Lmao so instead of just observing those millions of objects, they simulated how it would look like if it did that

    OK 👍

  • German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal
  • Source?

    In 2019, German prosecutors charged then-CEO Herbert Diess, Chair Hans Dieter Pötsch and former CEO Martin Winterkorn

  • Is there something like an upcoming new "chainsaw phenomenon"? Or …
  • That's quite slick 😂

    The actual term is Baader-Meinhof effect btw

  • Is there something like an upcoming new "chainsaw phenomenon"? Or …
  • It’s called the Cunningham effect

    Not sure if intentional 😂

  • Common diabetes drug helps chickens lay more eggs
  • Awesome, let's pump animals full of even more drugs by the billions for the sake of our own taste pleasure

  • For reference
  • Ceci n'est pas une figue.

  • Demo zum „Muttertag“ in Berlin: „Ich wollte die coole, unabhängige Mutter sein“
  • Haha ok wie geil ey 😂

    War bloß n meme aber alles gut

  • Demo zum „Muttertag“ in Berlin: „Ich wollte die coole, unabhängige Mutter sein“
  • lol wie mein Kommentar hier entfernt wurde

    Kritische Beiträge konträr zum Zeitgeist sind offenbar nicht erwünscht 🤷

  • Männerparfum: Höchste Zeit, über Geruchsbelästigung zu sprechen!
  • Auf Platz eins der schlimmsten Geruchsbelästiger fallen ja wohl eindeutig alte Frauen mit Anosmie

  • Chickens
  • Animal Farm, the good ending

  • Deutsch-österreichische Grenze: Kontrollen waren illegal
  • "einen Mann mit jüdischem Familiennamen in in ihre Stichprobe aufnehmen."

    Was soll das implizieren? Dass sie dem Mann seinen jüdischen Namen ansehen?

  • Hallo alle, ich bin neu hier.
  • Voyager beschte

  • TIL domesticated pigeons (Columba livia domestica) are descendants of the rock dove (Columba livia)

    The domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica) is a pigeon subspecies that's derived from the rock dove or rock pigeon. The rock pigeon is the world's oldest domesticated bird. Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets mention the domestication of pigeons more than 5,000 years ago, as do Egyptian hieroglyphics.

    Wild rock doves are uniformly pale grey with two black bars on each wing, with few differences being seen between males and females; i.e. they are not strongly sexually dimorphic. The domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica, which includes about 1,000 different breeds) descended from this species. Escaped domestic pigeons are the origin of feral pigeons around the world. Both forms can vary widely in the colour and pattern of their plumage unlike their wild ancestor, being red, brown, checkered, uniformly colored, or piebald.

    The genus name Columba is the Latin word meaning "pigeon, dove", whose older etymology comes from the Ancient Greek κόλυμβος (kólumbos), "a diver", hence κολυμβάω (kolumbáō), "dive, plunge headlong, swim". Aristophanes and others use the word κολυμβίς (kolumbís), "diver", for the name of the bird, because of its swimming motion in the air. The specific epithet livia is a Medieval Latin variant of livida, "livid, bluish-grey"; this was Theodorus Gaza's translation of Greek péleia, "dove", itself thought to be derived from pellós, "dark-coloured".

    Before the Columbian Exchange, rock doves were restricted to a natural resident range in western and southern Europe, North Africa, and extending into South Asia. They were carried into the New World aboard European ships between 1603 and 1607.

    Fun fact, there is no clear distinction between pigeons and doves. Generally, bigger species get labeled "pigeons" while more delicate ones are named "doves".

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    TIL about Swardspeak, the secret gay language used in the Philippines

    Swardspeak (also known as salitang bakla (lit. 'gay speak') or "gay lingo") is an argot or cant slang derived from Taglish (Tagalog-English code-switching) and used by a number of LGBT people in the Philippines.

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    TIL about Clarke's three laws, the most famous of which is the third: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

    The first two are:

    1.When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

    2.The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

    Arthur C. Clarke, the famed sci-fi author who penned these laws, is probably best known for co-authoring the screenplay to 2001: A Space Odyssee

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    TIL about the region-beta paradox, the psychological phenomenon that people can sometimes recover more quickly from more distressing experiences than from less distressing ones

    This appears counterintuitive; people typically predict intense states to last longer. The hypothesized for this disconnect is that, intense states trigger psychological defense processes that reduce the distress, while less intense states do not trigger the same psychological defense processes and, therefore, less effective attenuation of the stress occurs.

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    TIL about silbo gomero, the "Gomeran whistle" historically used on the Canarian island of Gomera to communicate over large distances

    Silbo gomero is a whistled register of Spanish that is used to communicate across the deep ravines and narrow valleys that radiate through the island and is generally used for public communication such as event invitations or PSAs. A speaker of Silbo Gomero is sometimes called a silbador ("whistler").

    Silbo Gomero is a transposition of Spanish from speech to whistling. The oral phoneme-whistled phoneme substitution emulates Spanish phonology through a reduced set of whistled phonemes. In 2009, UNESCO declared it a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

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    TIL about the three types of locomotion in terrestial vertebrates: plantigrade, digitigrade and unguligrade

    In plantigrades (e.g. humans, bears, most rodents), the entire sole of the foot touches the ground, in digitigrades (most carnivores, most birds), the heel is off the ground and unguligrades (ungulates) walk on hooves.

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    TIL the Scottish term for counter-clockwise is widdershins

    Literally, it means to take a course opposite the apparent motion of the sun viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. Widdershins is cognate with the German widersinnig, i.e., "against" + "sense". The opposite of widdershins is deosil, or sunwise, meaning "clockwise".

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    TIL that Alabama has by far the highest amount of death row inmates by capita of any US state

    There are just over 2,000 DRIs in the entire US, 46 of which are women. Alabama is leading the list with >300 inmates per 10M inhabitants.

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    TIL about Planet Nine, a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of the Solar System.

    This hypothesized ninth planet (not you, sorry Pluto) might explain the unusual commonalities of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs) 100s of AU from the sun. These ETNOs (such as dwarf planets and sednoids) have remarkably aligned orbits, suggest the existence of an undiscovered celestial body, dubbed Planet Nine, influencing them gravitationally.

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    TIL about Silphium, aka laser, a plant that was used as a panacea in antiquity and the first species in recorded history to go extinct

    The plant's exact identity is unknown to this day, since it went extinct in Roman times. It was a major cash crop of Cyrene, Libya, and even depicted on coins. It was used as seasoning, perfume, aphrodisiac, contraceptive and abortifacient. The last specimen was supposedly given to Emperor Nero.

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    TIL that "G.I." originally referred to galvanized iron
    www.wordorigins.org G.I. — Wordorigins.org

    6 December 2023 A G.I. is an American soldier, and G.I. is used as an adjective denoting things related to the U.S. military. The term came into its own during World War II, but its origins go back somewhat further. G.I. started out as a U.S. military abbreviation for galvanized iron. A War

    G.I. — Wordorigins.org

    TIL that "G.I." originally referred to objects made from galvanized iron from WWI on, before it was reinterpretated as "government issue ", and by WWII, applied to American soldiers.

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