Pinocchio is #Italian for "pine eye"!
Pinocchio is #Italian for "pine eye"!
On some Caribbean islands, the oysters can climb trees.
The average U.S. farm has 467 acres; the average Japanese farm has 3 acres.
Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1034: 60 Mind-Blowing Facts About Music in 60 Minutes (2024 Edition)
Time to clean out the office of all the mind-blowing facts about music I couldn't use this year.
#music #facts #Entertainment #MindBlowingFactsAboutMusic #musictrivia #WeirdMusicTrivia
https://globalnews.ca/news/10901836/the-ongoing-history-of-new-music-episode-1034-60-mind-blowing-facts-about-music-in-60-minutes-2024-edition/
Fact-Checking What Donald Trump Said in His 2024 Person of the Year Interview With TIME https://time.com/7201574/person-of-the-year-2024-donald-trump-fact-check/ #lies #disinformation #facts #truth #politics #democracy Question..has TIME ever fact checked the statements of their #choice for Person of the Year? #journalism
Finally some research into advancing LLMs that sounds both positive¹ and reasonable. (¹ Reporting highly and actual dangerous effects from using LLMs are piling up immensely the last couple of weeks.) #linguistics #nerd #facts
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/12/are-llms-capable-of-non-verbal-reasoning/
The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.
Most of the world's people must walk at least 3 hours to fetch water!
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
Britney Spears' "OOPs I did it again" is a cautionary tale and an apology for overuse of object oriented programming in the 90s. The song came out in the year 2000.
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for those in Ireland!
The first programme shown on BBC2 was Play School.
Approximately 70,000 people in the U.S. are both blind and deaf!
Some #LuigiMangione #facts that are better than the media's:
* Luigi once declined to fight Chuck Norris out of fear he'd hurt someone beloved.
* Luigi killed someone before, but it was a favor to Betty White, so nbd
* Luigi does not have a brother named Mario, but wouldn't that be cool
* Luigi will be experimented on and turned into Captain Corporate America, but will eventually come to his senses and turn on his captors
The universe is approximately 13.8 billion years old, calculated using observations of cosmic microwave background radiation. This dating provides insights into the formation and evolution of cosmic structures.
A broken clock is always right twice a day.
An elephant trunk has no bone but 40,000 muscles.