Today I Learned #3: There's a wiki for everything!

[AmazonQueen]

TIL that the cleaning robot at Key West International Airport is called R2Key2

 

[Samson]

TIL that India has serious problems at the top of its judiciary:

The last Chief Justice (top judge in the whole country) lost his job in the #MeToo movement after he was accused by a former staffer of sexual assault.

The current one was presiding over a hearing:

The man is accused of stalking, tying up, gagging and repeatedly raping his schoolgirl victim four years ago before threatening to douse her in petrol, set her alight and have her brother killed.
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The judge said:

“If you want to marry (her), we can help you. If not, you lose your job and go to jail.”​

 

[Samson]

TIL about buttergate in Canada:

People in Canada have found out during lockdown that their butter is not melting at room temperature. We do not really know why, but suspicion is falling on the use of palmitic acid in cattle feed. Palmitic acid is a (waste?) product of palm oil use, and is used to increase the energy content of cattle food. It also increases the amount of saturated fat in their milk, which increases the melting point.

Palm oil is linked to rainforest destruction and serious labour abuse.

 

[Hrothbern]

TIL about buttergate in Canada:

People in Canada have found out during lockdown that their butter is not melting at room temperature. We do not really know why, but suspicion is falling on the use of palmitic acid in cattle feed. Palmitic acid is a (waste?) product of palm oil use, and is used to increase the energy content of cattle food. It also increases the amount of saturated fat in their milk, which increases the melting point.

Palm oil is linked to rainforest destruction and serious labour abuse.

Nice quote of FDR in that link:
A nation that destroys its soil, destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT, 32ND US PRESIDENT

And on that butter
It takes a lab hardly any time or effort to measure the fatty acid composition of butter. Why has that not been done immediately ??? Now you get smoke in the nerwsmedia without hard evidence... has it become a taboo to write articles with hard facts ?
Normal compositions are in the literature for grass fed, or otherwise fed cows.
You only need to regulate max levels and like with the overall protein and fat level let the price depend on the content.
Farmers, when hardpressed enough with the selling price, go where the money is. My primary school friend's father who was a 40 cow farmer used the pulp of sugarbeets of the nearby sugar factory, the barley remains after making beer from nearby Heineken, the sheet remains of the production of wafers for the church (stamped out of sheets), etc, etc.

Well fed cows deliver a lot of usefull micronutrients. Instead of fortifying orange juice with micronutrients you can also prevent cow milk from being de-fortified.

 

[Kaitzilla]

TIL it is legal in the USA to sell house-destroying fiberglass beds.

Europe apparently banned them.

Stupid bed-in-a-box foam mattresses!
https://lrus.wolterskluwer.com/news...iberglass-stuffed-children-s-mattress/108278/

An Illinois couple purchased a Zinus memory foam mattress from Walmart for their child in the summer of 2019 that contained a removable outer cover equipped with a zipper. A mattress tag that read in part "62% Glass Fibers" was attached to the outer cover. About six months later, the consumer removed the outer cover to launder it with other items in a newly purchased washing machine. After washing, the cover was draped over a couch to dry underneath a ceiling fan. During this process, the couple’s two sons had fun playing jumping games on the mattress.

Injuries. The following morning, the boys’ father immediately noticed his skin was very irritated and extremely itchy. His sons also began crying that their whole bodies itched. Shortly thereafter, he discovered his whole body, as well as his spouse’s and sons’ bodies, were covered with little, hard-to-see shards of glass. The glass fibers from the subject mattress caused extreme pain and suffering to the couple’s family by cutting the skin of each family member, causing dermatitis. The boys’ father had several shards of glass fibers surgically removed from the back of his neck and has been unable to return to work as a result of his injuries. In addition, the severity of the couple’s and their children’s injuries are unknown because each family member likely inhaled significant amounts of glass fibers.

Property damage. The couple also noticed that their home had been blanketed with the same little shards of glass. Tiny shards of glass were embedded in all parts of their home—both inside and out—including their clothes, bedding, towels, appliances, carpet, tile, walls, tools, electronics, and inside their cars. Since early February 2020, the couple and their family have resided at a hotel because they are unable to return to their home due to glass fiber contamination.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Regarding the butter... don't ask me. I use margarine. But I've seen photos, and I can absolutely understand that it would be a pain to try to spread that on anything, let alone bread.

 

[The_J]

TIL: They figured out the Antikythera mechanism, and it's marvelously complex!
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkd...-secrets-of-the-ancient-antikythera-mechanism

(video is long, but worth watching I think)

 

[Samson]

TIL that they collect truffles in the desert of Iraq without pigs

It does not sound that safe: We are afraid of wolves, there are a lot here. And there are mines. A while ago, someone died.

Spoiler Truffle picking pictures :

 

[EgonSpengler]

TIL Jodie Foster is David Hedison's daughter-in-law. I used to watch Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea when I was a kid.

 

[Zkribbler]

TIL Jodie Foster is David Hedison's daughter-in-law. I used to watch Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea when I was a kid.

I did too until I got tired of seeing every other week, David Hedison looking at some roaring seaweed and gasping, "I see it, but I don't believe it!"
--Come on Captain Crane, that's the same roaring seaweed that was on the show two weeks ago.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I did too until I got tired of seeing every other week, David Hedison looking at some roaring seaweed and gasping, "I see it, but I don't believe it!"
--Come on Captain Crane, that's the same roaring seaweed that was on the show two weeks ago.

That reminds me of the old Battlestar Galactica, which used the same 5 or 6 1-second sfx shots for the dogfights, over and over.

 

[r16]

there should have been actually 8 or 9 shots , specifically counted and named by fans , but probably these also include the cylon ship that crashes into the landing pod/hangar .

 

[Sofista]

And every time a fighter exploded there should have been a Wilhelm scream.

 

[PhroX]

That reminds me of the old Battlestar Galactica, which used the same 5 or 6 1-second sfx shots for the dogfights, over and over.

And then Space Mutiny used the same shots....

 

[Valka D'Ur]

That reminds me of the old Battlestar Galactica, which used the same 5 or 6 1-second sfx shots for the dogfights, over and over.

It was for budget reasons. Battlestar Galactica was a really expensive show at the time.

Lots of shows had stock shots. I remember reading that Bonanza finally decided that all the main cast would wear the same clothes in every episode so they could reuse shots (ie. someone galloping off on a horse).

I remember one time on the old Television Without Pity forum, in the General Hospital thread... someone was griping about Jason Morgan always wearing the same outfit day after day, year after year... they wondered if he had a closet full of identical clothes?

Seems like someone on the show was monitoring that forum, 'cause a few months later up popped a scene in which Jason opens his closet and sure enough, he's got half a dozen identical leather jackets!

 

[EgonSpengler]

TIL Arch Enemy got a new lead singer.

Six years ago.

 

[The_J]

You should watch the videos sometimes, instead of only having them in the background .
(I was also confused when I saw Alissa the first time, but at least that was a while ago lol)

 

[GinandTonic]

It was for budget reasons. Battlestar Galactica was a really expensive show at the time.

Lots of shows had stock shots. I remember reading that Bonanza finally decided that all the main cast would wear the same clothes in every episode so they could reuse shots (ie. someone galloping off on a horse).

I remember one time on the old Television Without Pity forum, in the General Hospital thread... someone was griping about Jason Morgan always wearing the same outfit day after day, year after year... they wondered if he had a closet full of identical clothes?

Seems like someone on the show was monitoring that forum, 'cause a few months later up popped a scene in which Jason opens his closet and sure enough, he's got half a dozen identical leather jackets!

Still a thing

 

[Chukchi Husky]

One of the oddest for recycled footage was for Stargate SG-1, where the dialling sequence was recycled from the film. It's for the same reason why any show recycled footage, to save money, but what makes it odd is that Dean Devlin, producer and co-creator of Stargate (along with every Roland Emmerich movie since Universal Soldier), brought it up as a reason why the series was bad.

 

[PhroX]

TIL Arch Enemy got a new lead singer.

Six years ago.

Is it bad that I remember when they had a guy on vocals?