Post ABGJtdrbKzeyjJ2UGe by irimi1@merveilles.town
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(DIR) Post #ABGJtOy8iOyeXEyzsO by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-03T08:15:08Z
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I’m doing a challenge of learning (at least) one new fact a day for a month. I figured why not just share them here with you as well.
(DIR) Post #ABGJtPuHEFTvRYBQUi by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-03T08:15:27Z
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2021-09-03: The reason MDMA makes people feel more connected to other humans is that it stimulates oxytocin activity by activating specific serotonin receptors.
(DIR) Post #ABGJtRr9yoB1USjxui by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-04T20:32:04Z
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2021-09-04: You can not catch up on sleep. What is lost once due to less than 7-8 hours of sleep per night can not be substituted by naps or longer sleep the following day, it’s only damage control at that point.
(DIR) Post #ABGJtUrGor30nfob0C by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-05T07:58:53Z
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2021-09-05: Up until the 1800s, purple dye was worth more than its weight in gold because it was so rare (at least in Europe). That’s why so few countries have purple on their flags.
(DIR) Post #ABGJtV5Ry8OFVeRv6W by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-09T10:04:45Z
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Turns out I am learning new facts all the time, and the real challenge is to choose which one to post and how to phrase it.
(DIR) Post #ABGJtVy2hA3iExzWCG by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-06T09:51:11Z
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2021-09-06: There are companies that will manipulate Wikipedia articles and discussions for as little as 100€ per keyword.
(DIR) Post #ABGJtWz8uYX7OfVuYC by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-07T14:14:52Z
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2021-09-07: To become a medical specialist for psychiatry and psychology in Germany, the time for training and education is at least 11 years.
(DIR) Post #ABGJtYXv6jwiEonCOe by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-08T09:14:53Z
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2021-09-08: The Uruguayan 2-peso coin features a capybara.
(DIR) Post #ABGJtZVTXJaJDWelE0 by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-09T10:03:03Z
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2021-09-09: The Antikythera mechanism is an old greek mechanism used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance, and there’s a clockmaker on Youtube trying to reconstruct it.
(DIR) Post #ABGJtaKAUq8NkkNFEu by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-10T18:52:22Z
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2021-09-10: Where the Visual Studio compiler fails with unhelpful error messages, trying to build the same program using the GCC often produces helpful ones.
(DIR) Post #ABGJtba9osWBecrWng by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-09T10:03:39Z
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The Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Clickspring/videos
(DIR) Post #ABGJtdrbKzeyjJ2UGe by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-11T16:00:48Z
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2021-09-11: Crypto “currencies” are a Ponzi scheme, and that’s why all these get-rich-quick folks from silicon valley are so into it.
(DIR) Post #ABGJtgsQ8P684iRgSe by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-11T16:01:37Z
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For this I have a source that boils it down pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AAUrMuMPlo
(DIR) Post #ABlTTYcFWLpU67VD8a by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-12T17:15:33Z
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2021-09-12: For a mayor in Germany to be elected without an additional run-off election, they need to get the absolute majority of votes.
(DIR) Post #ABlTTZ9vV8lfmZG6d6 by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-13T19:37:38Z
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2021-09-12: The word 'Laser' actually is an acronym. It stands for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.
(DIR) Post #ABlTTZj1OeqBXPg8Ke by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-14T20:23:27Z
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2021-09-14: Balloons (the kind with aluminium coating on the outside) can indeed cause power outages.
(DIR) Post #ABlTTaGhNRmNDrR1pA by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-15T06:46:19Z
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2021-09-15: The crater of the “dinosaur killer” asteroid lies buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and is called the Chicxulub crater.
(DIR) Post #ABlTTambSpIeooMVYO by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-16T17:52:53Z
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2021-09-16: The Jungle Book is based on a true story, that being a feral boy that has been raised by wolves.
(DIR) Post #ABlTTbIrWt6WQrSGps by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-17T18:59:33Z
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2021-09-17: When you die in Habitica, you lose one level, all your exp. to the next one, all your gold and one piece of equipment (THEY TOOK MY STAFF OF CORN!!).
(DIR) Post #ABlTTbnLhXUTxPicM4 by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-19T07:39:14Z
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2021-09-18: Lemurs get high by biting cyanide secreting millipedes.
(DIR) Post #ABlTTc2wlXy2jn14fQ by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-14T20:53:01Z
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This one I can provide a source for: https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-investigate-mass-blackout-in-dresden/a-59173948
(DIR) Post #ABlTTcHTtVarSrogK0 by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-19T07:39:45Z
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2021-09-19: The bicycle is a German invention.
(DIR) Post #ABlTTcsLgR5HJD47mq by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-20T18:29:47Z
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2021-09-20: The Periodic table was invented by a sleeping brain. Mendeleev worked on a way to organise the elements restlessly for days, and then after he gave up and went to sleep, he dreamt of it. He wrote it down as soon as he woke up, and only had to change it at one position afterwards to make it fit.
(DIR) Post #ABlTTdL3xg3KkGV3Xk by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-21T14:07:30Z
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2021-09-21: The Pigmy falcon is Africa's smallest raptor (and it’s super cute!).
(DIR) Post #ABlTTdOFlobYu9zbW4 by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-14T20:23:15Z
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Oh no, I got the date wrong. This one was 2021-09-13 :)
(DIR) Post #ABlTTdm0LVbU5p6ZXM by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-22T07:40:22Z
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2021-09-22: One form of narcolepsy is caused by chronic underproduction of a neurotransmitter, that signals the brain to de-/activate the sleep paralysis in REM sleep. Due to this underproduction the body doesn’t have clear on/off signals, and reacts to a floating signal, often times inappropriately.
(DIR) Post #ABlTTeQ3wZe863qYyW by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-23T18:35:10Z
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2021-09-23: Narwhal tusks were mistaken for unicorn horns in the medieval times. Because of unicorns’ attributed antidote properties people liked to make those fake horns into drinking containers, and many pharmacies are still called "unicorn pharmacy" today.
(DIR) Post #ABlTTex1y019kJGtMW by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-24T19:14:57Z
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2021-09-24: The theremin is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer. It is named after its inventor, Leon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928.
(DIR) Post #ABlTTfSE60yHJ3rnzE by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-22T07:41:32Z
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Found this in the very good book I’m reading currently: “Why We Sleep” by Matthew Walker. Lots of current sleep science put together in an understandable way.
(DIR) Post #ABlTTfSE60yHJ3rnzF by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-25T22:00:52Z
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2021-09-25: The first Dune book was released in 1965 already 🤯
(DIR) Post #ABlTTfxmCiCysud0AC by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-26T19:00:22Z
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2021-09-26: Out of the people allowed to vote in Germany, all persons aged 50 or older hold ~55% of all votes :(
(DIR) Post #ABxH0Y8BIc5HIAsbvk by Hyolobrika@counter.fedi.live
2021-10-02T13:13:20.938781Z
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@irimi1 How so? What about ones that are built into something that has utility, like LBC? What about stablecoins?
(DIR) Post #ABxH8aHdBFXuHh8Bnc by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-27T13:24:38Z
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2021-09-27: Volunteering for an election is actually pretty fun, given your polling station isn’t being overrun with voters.
(DIR) Post #ABxH8akhRAnXjqjP6m by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-28T18:24:56Z
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2021-09-28: An artist collective created a fake ad agency for the German election last week and targeted the AfD (nationalist/right wing party) with cheap offers to deliver their campaign flyers. And then kept them. I’ve heard numbers from 1-5 million.
(DIR) Post #ABxH8bBHqK474JAdY8 by Hyolobrika@counter.fedi.live
2021-10-02T13:14:47.503216Z
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@irimi1 No idea what the AfDs policies are but I hope the collective went to prison/were fined.
(DIR) Post #ABxH8cj06Scxr9x4jo by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-29T05:25:45Z
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2021-09-29: Mattel created Barbie-branded typewriter toys, of which the later electronic versions had an encryption feature for "secret writing". It was omitted from the manual though, since Mattel thought it wouldn’t appeal to young girls.
(DIR) Post #ABxH8eIUG0bijVYvgm by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-29T05:28:22Z
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Here are all models and an explanation how it worked (it’s a simple substitution-chiffre with four available variants): https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/mehano/barbie/
(DIR) Post #ABxH8ekqYZIC9SpZtQ by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-28T18:26:12Z
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Here’s the story: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pranksters-target-german-far-right-party-with-election-campaign-stunt-2021-09-25/
(DIR) Post #ABxH8g1toeWk6doi6y by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-30T17:55:40Z
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2021-09-30: The guy that came up with the insane residency system for US medical training consisting of 30h shifts literally had a cocaine addiction, which helps explain why he’d think it could work. His name was Halsted or something.
(DIR) Post #ABxH8gJyjQzN0iH9I8 by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-28T18:29:56Z
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I actually thought this was a hoax at first. Deception is the collective’s trade after all, and I expected the story to be fake in order to just make the party look dumb by pretending they fell for a super dumb trick. But a few days back they actually confirmed it.Anyways, this party still got waaaay to many votes :(
(DIR) Post #ABxH8haK29ekvgviPA by irimi1@merveilles.town
2021-09-30T17:56:08Z
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That’s the guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stewart_Halsted