#TIL about·the·interpunct enwp.org/Interpunct — turned up in some customer-submitted CSVs at work.
#TIL 7th January is the Japanese Festival of Seven Herbs day enwp.org/Nanakusa_no_sekku — might try making some of the herb rice porridge next year
#TIL leathal salt dosage is around 80g
#TIL Nina Paley released sitasingstheblues.com into the public domain
#TIL throwdough.com exists and that it’s the official dough of the American pizza team and that there’s an American pizza team and that they have practise dough #food #baking #pizza
#TIL about Esquivalience, a Fictitious Entry. More proof that #copyright law is bad for consumers, driving organisations to compromise the integrity of their publications.
#TIL Nicola Pellow (author of the first line mode browser) was from, or at least lived in, Okehampton, Devon (WWW/People -- Pellow)
#TIL Shakespearian Star Wars is a thing, and what a thing it is: randomhouse.com/book/226524/william-shakespeares-star-wars-by-ian-doescher
#TIL my old english teacher has set up some bizarre kind of alternate currency system where he trades old chocolate for semicolons
#TIL the id attribute isn’t good enough for RDFa ‘lite’, apparently it needs the new resource attribute.
#TIL about Shrek, the sheep who wasn’t shorn for six years and then met the Prime Minister and was shorn on an iceberg
#TIL in the US, both Dartmouth and Exeter are in New Hampshire. The original Dartmouth and Exeter back in the UK are in Devon, nowhere near Hampshire.
#TIL that you can put a relative URL in <base> (via Tantek Çelik)
#TIL the smiley is owned by a company :( :S :/
#TIL that if you use a hot surface, you can carve soap bubbles/foam to quite a high resolution
Thanks to Tom Morris #TIL Database Rights are a thing