#TIL Zebra: medical slang for arriving at an exotic diagnosis when a more commonplace one is more likely

#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 ‘expedient’ means “suitable and proper” in one context, and “easy or practical, but possibly immoral” in another.

#english

#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

So #TIL how to use PIL and gnu make. Great tools.

#TIL doctrine ORM is pretty damn awesome #web #dev #php

#TIL how to chamfer leather. Approximately 2 sheep worth of leather goes into a traditional pipe organ.

#TIL OS X dictionary auto–links almost all words in wikipedia mode! This is behaviour I’ve wanted in wikipedia for ages.