TIL: Today I Learned

[Gori the Grey]

It's post count is off the charts!

 

[Takhisis]

It is, in fact, over nine thousand.

 

[Sommerswerd]

It is, in fact, over nine thousand.

Power... Overwhelming

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The second-longest thread I know of on any forum is the one on TrekBBS, which is about how a fan film producer was sued for copyright infringement: CBS-Paramount sued to stop Axanar. It's 1675 pages, 33,488 replies, and nearly 2 million views. I gave up trying to keep up with it ages ago.

The longest thread is also on that forum... a chat thread in a hidden subforum, over 33,500 replies.

 

[Lexicus]

TIL there is a town called Plantation, Florida

 

[Hrothbern]

TIL
And the Notre Dame is in Indiana

 

[BenitoChavez]

TIL that the farthest star that has been observed is 9 billion light years away. Link.

TIL
And the Notre Dame is in Indiana

There is also that one in Paris that hardly anyone has heard of

 

[Timsup2nothin]

There is also that one in Paris that hardly anyone has heard of

That one doesn't have sports teams. Obviously they need to improve their marketing if they want to become better known.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

TIL that the farthest star that has been observed is 9 billion light years away. Link.

As a blue giant star, it would have gone supernova relatively soon after (relatively, given that blue giant stars measure their lives in tens of thousands to millions of years, rather than billions).

 

[PhroX]

TIL there is a fish called a Sarcastic Fringehead.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

TIL there is a fish called a Sarcastic Fringehead.

So when I say I am going fishing for sarcastic fringeheads you won't know if I am going out on a boat or just trolling Breitbart.

 

[Broken_Erika]

The average Breitbart poster?

 

[Gori the Grey]

sarcasm derives from the Greek word for teeth or biting or something like that.

Looks it up: to tear flesh, to gnash the teeth.

 

[Arakhor]

It's presumably from the same root as sarcophagus, which means flesh eater in Greek.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Still, Sarcastic Fringehead would be a great name for a band.

 

[Zkribbler]

Swim fins were invented by Benjamin Franklin.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

In Chrome (and presumably Chrome-based browsers), opening the dev tools (Ctrl+Shift+J) and then right-clicking the Refresh button gives you options to do a hard refresh orclear the cache and do a hard refresh. You can also just disable the cache in the Network tab. Or use an extension that

EDIT: I forgot what I was typing mid-post.

 

[Traitorfish]

Swim fins were invented by Benjamin Franklin.

There's a pie chart somewhere, divided into three equal part: "Things Invented by Scots", "Thing Invented by Indians", and "Things Invented by Benjamin Franklin".

 

[metatron]

There's a pie chart somewhere,

It's "somewhere" allright.
I tried to look for it and ran into Native-Americans-contrasted-with-real-estate-crisis memes and mountains of Kitlers.

 

[Traitorfish]

Fun fact, if you expand it from "Things Invented by Benjamin Franklin" to "Things Invented By the Founding Fathers", you can also add weirdo elective monarchies that pretend not to be weirdo elective monarchies, and the swivel chair, which were invented by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson respectively.

(Time will tell which made the greater contribution to world history.)