daily knowledge

daily knowledge

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this is an educational page. you will learn stuff. mainly written by @oakley.bsky.social but sometimes posts are written by my friends. for kat <3

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anyways i do still intend to resume daily knowledge posting and move it to leaflet, i just need to do a real good knowledge for my first post on there and i have been too lazy/busy to do that

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leaflet has a better rss experience than bluesky. for that matter, how many people even know bluesky lets you follow accounts via rss? i'm guessing it's not a lot leaflet wins!

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Wondering if Leaflet would be a better fit for this format. A decent amount of knowledges fit within one tweet but notably not all of them. It'd be on the shorter side compared to most Leaflet publications but I'm kinda thinking I could make this little microblog better if I switched. Thoughts?

daily knowledge
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Wondering if Leaflet would be a better fit for this format. A decent amount of knowledges fit within one tweet but notably not all of them. It'd be on the shorter side compared to most Leaflet publications but I'm kinda thinking I could make this little microblog better if I switched. Thoughts?

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Whereas the original Bliss was purchased from the National Geographic photographer Charles O'Rear for six figures after it was listed on a photography website, New Bliss was simply taken from a post on Deviantart. (2/2)

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october 9th, 2025: Telipogon diabolicus is a species of orchid that gets the name diabolicus and its nickname of "devil's head orchid" from its gynostemium that resembles a tiny red devil.

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september 29th, 2025: The spork combines the utilities of a knife and a fork. This is common knowledge. Less common knowledge is its logical successor, the SPLAYD. Invented by an Australian man named William McArthur, it has features of a spoon, knife, and fork.

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september 25th, 2025: I guess you didn't know it but I'm a fiddle player too, and if you'd care to take a dare I'll make a bet with you. NOW YOU PLAY A PRETTY GOOD FIDDLE BOY, but give The Devil her do... I'LL BET A FIDDLE OF GOLD AGAINST YOUR SOUL CUZ I THINK I'M BETTER THAN YOU‼️

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september 24th, 2025:

Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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september 5th, 2025: Butter can't be churned from milk. When milk fresh from a cow is allowed to rest for long enough, a layer heavy in milkfat will rise to the top. This layer is skimmed off and sold as heavy cream, which in the United States, must be 36% milkfat to be marketed as such. (1/2)

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august 30th, 2025: An 1884 U.S. patent for what could today be described as peanut butter was filed by a man named Marcellus Gilmore Edson. It details how roasting the peanuts is what gives the resulting product its characteristic gooey texture, rather than becoming peanut flour, once ground. (1/2)

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And while the words "peanut butter" are not used, the patent says that once cooled, the product will "set into a consistency like that of butter, lard, or ointment." (2/2) WE COULD HAVE HAD PEANUT OINTMENT

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august 23rd, 2025: The earliest known instance of the term "windshield" being used comes from a patent filed in 1904, which showed the device being used on a baby carriage to protect children from the elements.