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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 01:33:48 EST lnxw48a1

#TIL (Today I learned): Kell blood groups / Kell red blood cell antigens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kell_antigen_system after I came across an article suggesting that UK King Henry VIII's reproductive issues and his later behavior and physical symptoms may have been caused by Kell antigens and the related McLeod syndrome
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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 20:39:55 EST lnxw48a1

#TIL Today I learned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Traveller
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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 20:08:55 EDT lnxw48a1

#TIL: The "Harvard Sentences":{https://harvardsentences.com/}

> Harvard senteces are collection of sample phrases that are used for standardized testing of Voice over IP, cellular, and other telephone systems. They are phonetically balanced sentences that use specific phonemes at the same frequency they appear in English.
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  Complete list of harvard sentences
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 00:07:23 EDT lnxw48a1

#TIL: "bottle movie": https://lowupside.com/2018/01/25/my-top-10-bottle-movies-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-bottles/ [lowupside com]

> A Bottle Movie is a movie that entirely (or mostly) plays out in a single location, usually a small one. A good way to tell if a film is “bottle-like” is if it can be turned into a stage play, because the term Bottle Movie comes from the idea that the whole film could fit into a confined space, like a bottle
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1. The Top Ten Best Bottle Movies (That have nothing to do with bottles)
  
  By Alex Tobin from Low Upside
  
  The Top Ten Best Bottle Movies (That have nothing to do with bottles)
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 18:48:31 EDT lnxw48a1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90or%C4%91e_Martinovi%C4%87_incident

I was completely unaware of this until now. #TIL
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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 00:26:19 EDT lnxw48a1
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- clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
@clacke Thanks for posting this. I was not aware of #FIBA International #Basketball Federation until now. #TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIBA_Basketball_World_Cup and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIBA

> Originally known as the Fédération internationale de basket-ball amateur (hence FIBA), in 1989 it dropped the word amateur from its name but retained the acronym
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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 03:15:33 EDT lnxw48a1

#TIL: Bazball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazball
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Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 19:24:08 EDT Ji Fu

#TIL some people still use Angelfire.

♲ @stormy@diaspora.ragesoss.com: great blog lengthy backs everything up, perfect. d-dos.angelfire.com/the-second… excellent use of Angelfire folks. still around. support them. Make your angelfire today at angelfire.com for free

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 14:17:10 EDT lnxw48a1
- clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
I learned a new word today.

#TIL: "Mondegreen" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen

@clacke
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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 21:34:14 EDT lnxw48a1

https://nu.federati.net/url/291013 [www eventbrite com]

#TIL: "midget wrestling". I would expect that modern associations for Little People would be against this sort of "freak show" presentation.
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1. Midget Mayhem Wrestling Goes Wild! Sterling Heights MI +18
  
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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 03:53:16 EDT lnxw48a1

#TIL: RYGB Surgery -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK553157/

A type of bariatric surgery

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 17:10:27 EDT lnxw48a1

#TIL: Gangstalking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_stalking

I've occasionally heard the term used, but never got curious enough to look it up until now.
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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jul-2023 15:02:29 EDT lnxw48a1

#TIL: https://www.britannica.com/topic/sansculotte

Decades later, I'm still finding things like this that I feel like I should have picked up during my years in California public schools.

Though I should point out that I did get a better perspective on World War II than many of my contemporaries, because I had a history teacher who was a child in the Baltics during the war and was willing to share what he knew ... including hearing the German dictator's speeches on the radio ... he never said whether he understood the language, but he did say the speeches were spellbinding.

Also, in 7th grade, I had a history teacher who'd spent a lot of time researching some of the Revolutionary War battles in and around Boston. She gave us a lot more details and passion than the usual blah blah.

So I got a lot of some things. I just feel like the French revolution was a major enough event that we should have learned more about it. Instead, we mostly skipped it (maybe a brief mention of Marie Antoinette and "let them eat cake" ... and of the reign of terror, but that's all) and the Napoleonic wars (though we did cover the Louisiana purchase and the fact that it helped fund the wars in Europe).
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  Sansculotte | Definition, History, & Facts
  
  from Encyclopedia Britannica
  
  sansculotte, French sans-culotte ("without knee breeches"), in the French Revolution, a label for the more militant supporters of that movement, especially in the years 1792 to 1795. Sansculottes presented themselves as members of the poorer classes or leaders of the common people, but during the Reign of Terror public functionaries and educated men also adopted the label to demonstrate their patriotism. The distinctive costume of the typical sansculotte was the pantalon (long trousers) in place of the culotte (silk breeches) worn by the upper classes, as well as the carmagnole (short jacket) and the red cap of liberty. Jacques-René Hébert’s
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 13:09:04 EDT lnxw48a1

Also #TIL (Well *yesterday* I learned): Robber flies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asilidae
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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 13:05:02 EDT lnxw48a1

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

Michigan Territory and the State of Ohio had a border dispute that almost led to a shooting war.

This is something I didn't know. #TIL
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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 21:15:01 EDT lnxw48a1

#TIL: #Venix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venix

When I first saw this, I thought maybe they meant #Xenix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 23:11:46 EDT lnxw48a1

#TIL: Bechdel Test https://bechdeltest.com/

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Mar-2023 20:42:25 EST lnxw48a1

I didn't realize that #FreeNAS is now TrueNAS Core, while #TrueNAS is now TrueNAS Enterprise. They also now have a #Linux based "TrueNAS Scale" product ... back when I listened to #BSD_Now, #IX_Systems (the company behind the above) was solidly in #BSD land.

#TIL via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueNAS and https://truenas.com/

My perception is that once there's $SOFTWARE Community Edition and $SOFTWARE Enterprise Edition, the sponsoring company will usually gradually suffocate the CE version in order to push users into buying licenses for the EE version. I'm not saying this is happening here, but if I were building a #NAS box, I'd keep that in mind when deciding what software stack to run on it.
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  TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era
  
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  TrueNAS is the World’s #1 Open Source Storage. Based on OpenZFS, it is trusted by millions and deployed worldwide.
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 25-Feb-2023 22:36:56 EST lnxw48a1

#TIL: PT Boats had wooden hulls https://www.historynet.com/elco-pt-boat-80-feet-of-wood-and-weaponry/
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  Elco PT Boat: 80 Feet of Wood and Weaponry
  
  By David Lauterborn from HistoryNet
  
  Elco PT Boat: 80 Feet of Wood and Weaponry
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 10:28:55 EST lnxw48a1
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> It's Daisy Ridley.

Oh, the actress who plays Rey! #TIL, and that's probably the one media-related thing I should have already known.

I'm already used to not knowing who a "famous" performer is because I've essentially been away from the world of media since the 1980s, with exceptions in the 1990s for my weekly movie with #sonOne when he was in high school and a year or two when a friend decided to try to catch me up by recording the best TV shows on VHS to play for me during my weekly visits.

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