#ThisWeekILearned: Ammonium chloride may be the 6th basic taste
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#ThisWeekILearned: Ammonium chloride may be the 6th basic taste
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#ThisWeekILearned: The word "scapegoat" was coined in a 1530 translation of the bible. dltj.org/article/issu...
#ThisWeekILearned: We started capitalizing the pronoun "I" to distinguish it from similarly typeset letters. dltj.org/article/issu...
#ThisWeekILearned: "But where is everybody?!?" — the origins of Fermi's Paradox dltj.org/article/issu...
#ThisWeekILearned: Plants reproduce by spreading little plant-like things. dltj.org/article/issu...
#ThisWeekILearned: Mexico has only one gun store for the entire country dltj.org/article/issu...
#ThisWeekILearned: There are now 23 Dark Sky Sanctuaries in the world. The effort it takes to achieve this is incredible, and the pictures that come as a result are stunning.
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This Week I Learned: It is much harder to get to the Sun than it is to Mars #ThisWeekILearned #TWIL
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#ThisWeekILearned: It takes nearly 3¢ to make a penny, but almost 14¢ to make a nickel!
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#ThisWeekILearned: The origin of the computer term "mainframe" comes from "main frame" — the 1952 name of an IBM computer's central processing section.
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What did you learn this week?
Two folders on a computer disk, one for 2023 and one for 2024.
Every week, I try to read or learn something interesting—sometimes useful, sometimes whimsical, occasionally random. Here’s my ‘This Week I Learned’ list for 2024. Enjoy!
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