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  • TIL the Wikipedia language with the second-most articles is Cebuano

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  • They aren't nonsense articles. Those bots create articles about any known species. They usually only include the name, taxonomy, who described it first, and sometimes a description.

  • spagett

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  • You've been spooked!

  • TIL in 2006 a Putin loyalist wrote a "fictional" novel accurately predicting Russia's future assault on Ukraine. In the novel, this escalates to WWIII followed by the surrender of the U.S. and Europe

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  • History @lemmy.world
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    Bethlehem’s Christmas Relic: The Chalky Soil of the Milk Grotto

    www.medievalists.net /2025/12/bethlehems-christmas-relic-the-chalky-soil-of-the-milk-grotto/
  • Textiles, Fiber Arts, and Needlecrafts @piefed.social
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    The Pointe Shoe Makers Of Hackney | Spitalfields Life

    spitalfieldslife.com /2018/01/25/the-pointe-shoe-makers-of-hackney-x/
  • History @lemmy.world
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    The only surviving handwriting of an emperor: Theodosius II and a petition from Aswan

    www.roger-pearse.com /weblog/2017/10/17/the-only-surviving-handwriting-of-an-emperor-theodosius-ii-and-a-petition-from-aswan/

  • awawawawa

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  • Waluigi approves.

  • This is how you know it's real love.

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  • Online games: I went AFK to be here.

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL that children also wore corsets

    blogs.cornell.edu /cornellcostume/2022/05/05/childhood-corsetry-the-development-of-unnatural-body-standards-from-a-young-age/
  • History @lemmy.world
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    Marie Antoinette's Wedding Dress

    www.invitinghistory.com /2015/05/marie-antoinettes-wedding-dress.html
  • Retro Computers @lemmy.world
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    It's hard to be more retro than this

    hettie.family /2022/06/14/computer-history-museum/

  • Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3

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  • Seriously they provided a kinect less bundle 6 months after launch

    I wonder why 🙄.

    I would add Xbox One+Kinect+Always online+the used games policy.

  • Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3

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  • And then Microsoft made the same mistake with Xbox One+Kinect.

  • History @lemmy.world
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    Punt: an ancient civilization rediscovered

    landofpunt.wordpress.com /2023/03/11/punt-an-ancient-civilization-rediscovered-2/
  • History @lemmy.world
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    Beetle-Wing Embroidery in Nineteenth-Century Fashion

    fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu /beetle-wing-19thcentury/
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL Mark Twain didn't say "History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes"

    quoteinvestigator.com /2014/01/12/history-rhymes/

  • Trump, 79, Gets Confused Explaining Water to the Navy

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  • I think what he was trying to say is that the water was going to short-circuit the magnet.

  • AbandonedPorn @reddthat.com
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    Gingerbread Castle

    abandonedrelics.wordpress.com /2016/07/27/gingerbread-castle/

  • TIL Edison tried to make a spirit phone

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  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL Edison tried to make a spirit phone

    medium.com /@arthurokeefe_33302/the-myth-of-the-edison-tesla-spirit-phone-rivalry-8d441ae76f75
  • History @lemmy.world
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    Oldest symbolic monument

    oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com /2025/08/oldest-symbolic-monument.html
  • Houseplants @mander.xyz
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    The Fero-Plant and other “rustic adornments”

    thegardenhistory.blog /2023/11/18/the-fero-plant-and-other-rustic-adornments/
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL there is a bird that lays their eggs on the branches without a nest

    naturalwonders.substack.com /p/why-dont-birds-nests-blow-out-of
  • Anthropology @mander.xyz
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    The anthropomorphic mask of the Bwami initiation society

    collection-lacharriere.quaibranly.fr /en/anthropomorphic-bwami-mask

  • They have a point

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  • Armageddon.

  • Fashist Stare

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  • The Dreamworks' face.

  • Loops - short form video with ActivityPub - is now open source!

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  • I remember when he announced that videos could be uploaded from the website next week...he said that in February. In August, he said it would be possible soon. There was an instance (loops.gay) that allowed you to do that, but it disappeared.

  • Whoever didn't renew their cellphone license won't ever see this

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  • It isn't common, but it happens. For example, local news websites.

  • Why is Lemmy so US-centric? The largest instances are in Europe, aren't they? So why does it have to be US news trolling as if it were Reddit?

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  • I see German content here all the time, even though I don't understand it or follow it.

  • Is there a service to check for reposts?

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  • Reddit had a tool for that because search engines weren't useful.

  • Google's WebP

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  • I recognize that avif and webp may have their uses, but for me they are a nuisance every time I encounter an image in those formats.

  • Google's WebP

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  • Avif, the only one that I hate more than webp. 😞

  • The real questions

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  • And then one fediverse logo is three asterisks...

  • Google Photos does OCR on handwriting

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  • That's how they translate images. It have been a thing for years.