Fact of the Day: Despite being a world renowned tourist destination and a population of about 15,000 people, the island territory of Anguilla boasts the claim of having and supporting 0 chain restaurants or fast food joints

I am live NOW with my slot on the Somos Vtubers Train as your resident Roguelike loving PNGTuber Mushroom :3 twitch.tv/itstripleagaming

Fact of the Day: In Ethiopian folklore, the discovery of the caffeinated properties of coffee fruit is thanks to goats, which would eat of the fruit then dance until the people made the connection

Fact of the Day: The Cobb Salad, named for the owner of the Hollywood restaurant which is believed to have invented it (Richard Cobb), is also part of the mnemonic which can be used to remember the ingredients of the original Cobb Salad (1/2)

Fact of the Day: When the modern playground was invented in Germany in 1885, they were originally called "Sand Gardens" and their invention is primarily credited to educator Friedrich Froebel

Fact of the Day: Despite becoming immortalized as a Hollywood household name of his era, James Dean only appeared in three films: Rebel Without a Cause (1955), East of Eden (1955), and Giant (1956)

Fact of the Day: Oysters, in addition to respirating with gases across their mantles, breath primarily with gills

Fact of the Day: The word janitor originally meant door keeper and usher, and as such was named for the Roman god of doors, gates, beginnings, and endings - Janus

Fact of the Day: Capybaras have earned the nickname "nature's ottoman" as they allow other animals to sit on them, such as monkeys, birds, and other Capybaras

DON'T FORGET, it's Twitch Rivals day! Come cheer me on AND meet our surprise guest, State Farm's "Mystery Neighbor" (even I don't know who it is yet) I'll be live practicing beforehand, maybe be playing Codenames with pals to wake my brain up :3

Fact of the Day: The luxury hotel Waldorf Astoria in New York City is credited with inventing both modern room service as well as restaurant reservations

happy hispanic + latine heritage month! 🇵🇷 i'm excited to share that i'll be featured on Twitch's Latin Luminarias shelf all year long! 💙

Fact of the Day: The struts of an umbrella which give them their signature shape, typically made of wood, metal, or fiberglass, are called "ribs"

Fact of the Day: Drupes, or "stone fruit" has two hierarchical names for how difficult their internal seeds, commonly called stones, are to remove: called freestone drupes and clingstone drupes

Fact of the Day: Despite not having an official name in movie, the team working on the movie Jaws named the shark "Bruce" after Steven Spielberg's lawyer Bruce Ramer (1/2)

Fact of the Day: In Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, if you hit the "tech support" button it would open an easter egg of a Doom inspired game called "The Hall of Tortured Souls" with the names of the development team, reflective of how overworked they were

Fact of the Day: Certain varieties of butterfly chrysalis allow the pupa inside to vibrate or make noises to scare away would be predators

Fact of the Day: While the Spork is widely known, the "One Armed Man Fork" or Knork was a knife/fork hybrid that has existed since the 1700s and saw a popularity surge due (1/2)

🔴 LIVE NOW Let's get Chronically Cosy with some Stardew Valley! Today we're playing some dew with our friends @saelyss.bsky.social, @kilarakaito.bsky.social and @triplea.bsky.social <3 We're stronger together! ↪️ twitch.tv/cosylinde

Fact of the Day: First spotted in 1889, the world's smallest known snake species, the mere 10 cm long Barbados threadsnake, was recently rediscovered after a 20 year absence

Fact of the Day: It is believed whales evolved to leave the water, then returned to the water based on them still having mostly useless internal back legs called vestigial structures as evolutionary remnants

Fact of the Day: So many Purple Hearts were made in anticipation of the invasion of Japan during WW2 that there are still Purple Heart medals that were made for WW2 that are still in circulation awaiting recipients, (1/2)

Forgot to post these here Fact of the Day: Puffin beaks change color with the seasons, changing from a dull grey in the winter to a vibrant orange with the heat of the spring

My 9 year old second cousin just asked if I was alive to remember a hurricane from 1969 I turn 25 in three months

The amount of game devs that are not disclosing on their game pages that they've used Gen AI in their games / in the dev process is so enraging oml. If you think Gen AI is so good & unproblematic, then disclose your use of it. Say it with your whole chest instead of tricking people.

Fact of the Day: California has an official state Mushroom as of 2024 - the California golden chanterelle (Cantharellus californicus) which is a favorite among foragers and local cuisines for its immense size (with specimens as large as 4+ pounds) with nutty flavor and apricot aroma

Fact of the Day: Despite being smaller than a soccer field, the unrecognized Micronation of Sealand had an official, NF Board affiliated, national soccer team

Annnnd that's a wrap! Official post-train trailer still to come, but enjoy this finale video I made to thank everyone for helping! We will be taking a much needed rest to recharge spoons, but promise more events will be on the way. 🥰 #SPRaidTrain2025 #DisabilityPrideMonth

Fact of the Day: In the United States, most signs use a specific font officially called The Standard Alphabets For Traffic Control Devices, FHWA Series font, or most famously its unofficial moniker, "Highway Gothic" designed by Theodore W Forbes in 1948

Fact of the Day: Pop Tarts were originally called "Fruit Scones" though Kellog changed the name to Pop Tarts, apparently inspired by Andy Warhol's Pop Art of the 1960s

Fact of the Day: While Mt Vesuvius' eruption in 79 AD is its most famous, it also erupted on a large scale in 1631 with 3,360 casualties and a volcanic explosivity index of 5 in what is estimated to be the 8th deadliest volcano eruption in recorded history

Fact of the Day (yesterday): The brain lacks pain receptors of its own in any capacity; despite this, because most headaches derive from a chemical reaction from the blood vessels in your skull's dura and pia, it makes your brain think it is experiencing pain anyway

My home country isn't always perfect, but damn I'm proud to represent #germany in this stacked event, alongside a bunch of AAA veterans and other #indie devs making awesome stuff 😍 So many great #games I didn't even know were from good old Schland. Peep this! store.steampowered.com/sale/Games-F...

Fact of the Day: Despite people generally splitting helicopter as "heli" and "copter", etymologically the word parts are the helico (spiral) and pter (wing), both coming from Greek origins

Got a whole THREAD of exciting announcements today! First up - TOMORROW I'll be taking part in the Latin Guild's Summerween Raid Train hosted by @baeevilwitch.bsky.social - we'll be playing Deadseat then starting a playthrough (my first) of Resident Evil 3 Remastered

Fact of the Day: The protruding skin flaps near the cheekbones of some male orangutans are called flanges and are a sexual dimorphism are, as far as we know presently, just serve as a trait to increase their desirability to mates

Fact of the Day: While the exact number is difficult to nail down, now defunct website "An Idea" in 2014 used survey data to approximate that Santa is left out 1 billion cookies and 500 million gallons of milk on Christmas Eve night each year

Fact of the Day: Tycho Brahe, renowned 16th century Danish astronomer, died in October 1601 from complications after holding in his pee too long during a royal banquet causing him to contract a bladder illness (and likely a burst bladder) which killed him 11 days later

Fact of the Day: Exoplanet HD 189733b is a high heat gas giant about 63 light years away from Earth in the constellation Vulpecula with a unique form of precipitation; the rain beads contain silicones and as it cools as it approaches the surface it cools and solidifies into shards of glass

Fact of the Day: Europe has a single species of wild monkey living on the continent, the Barbary macaque, which is an endangered and found on the Rock of Gibraltar

Fact of the Day: Disney worked with Kodak to develop an "impossible color" for their unique reddish sidewalks which fatigue your eye cones to create an impossibly vibrant contrast the between concrete and grass for when visitors took pictures at the park

Fact of the Day: Animal hearts vary wildly in average beats per minute; while elephants have one of the slowest heart rates of a mammal with a rate between 25 and 35 BPMs but the slowest goes to the blue whale with a heart rate recorded as low as 2 beats per minute

Fact of the Day: The link between baseball and the hotdog is thanks to Harry M Stevens, who invented one of the currently used iterations of the baseball scorecard, who started selling them at Giants' home games in April 1901 since with the weather ice cream was not turning enough profit (1/2)

Fact of the Day: President Lincoln was offered war elephants by the King of Siam (modern day Thailand) for use in the Civil War, which Lincoln politely declined

Fact of the Day: German Chocolate Cake is named after a person, not the country; the earliest listing of the cake's recipe calls it "Summer German's Chocolate Cake" in a Dallas newspaper from 1956 for its use of a specific kind of chocolate called "German's Sweet Chocolate" (1/2)

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Fact of the Day: During WW2, soldiers often complained about the liquid lemon crystals they were given as their source of Vitamin C, which led to the US Military working with Florida's Department of Citrus to make orange juice concentrate, (1/2)

LIVE NOW on the purple place, it's Palia with Pals Sunday :3 www.twitch.tv/itstripleaga...

Fact of the Day: If you've ever wondered why a specific world record wasn't found in the Guinness Book of World Records, it could be because the company has an extensive list of records they discontinued and/or no longer track for various reasons

We are LIVE NOW (link in the replies) playing in a Private Lobby of wonderful Twitch Unity Guild creators, we also received a kind giftie of PEAK from our bud Red so we're at 39 points on our Shroom-a-thon Goals, very close to our Gungeon Gauntlet goal :3 should be a fun night