Fact of the Day: Even though Pomegranate seeds are the first examples that come up on Google when you search for "aril", what people often incorrectly call their seeds, pomegranates are part of a specific fruit group called exarilates meaning "without aril"; (1/2)

Fact of the Day: The periscope, originally called the polemoscope, was devised originally by astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1647 and foresaw its likely military implications, which would come in 1854 when it was first used in the Navy by Hippolyte Marié-Davy

Fact of the Day: Hieroglyphics have contextual reading direction, meaning they can be read left to right (sinistrodextral) or right to left (dextrosinistral) depending on specific symbol usage

Fact of the Day: The rabbit from Super Mario 64, Mips is named for the MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages) component in the N64

Fact of the Day: Plums have some of the most diverse cultivars of any fruit species largely cultivated and come in a huge array of colors, including but not limited to; yellow, green, purple, blue, red, pink, and black

Fact of the Day: While we call the sensation "hitting your funny bone" because of the humerus bone it is near, the sensation comes from hitting the ulnar which is largely vulnerable with just skin and fat to insulate it

Fact of the Day: Not only is there a specific word for binding books in human skin (Anthropodermic bibliopegy), there is also a group called the Anthropodermic Book Projected which seems to prove which famous books are in fact bound in skin

Fact of the Day: Despite hieroglyphics being almost exclusively associated with Egyptian history, the word itself has no Egyptian origins and etymologically is Greek, used to mean either "sacred engravings" or "words of God"

Fact of the Day: Hurricanes, Cyclones, and Typhoons are all regional names for the same weather event, a Tropical Cyclone, stemming from different oceans; Hurricanes are Atlantic and parts of the Pacific, Typhoons are the western Pacific, and Cyclones for the Indian Ocean

Fact of the Day : The lyrics for the M.A.S.H theme song "Suicide is Painless" were actually written by director Robert Altman's then 15 year old son, and despite commissioning the lyrics to "stupid" he and audiences grew to love its dark, haunting ballad

Fact of the Day: When a word or phrase is repeated in two different forms, this is a type of pun called an Antanaclasis; examples include Ben Franklin's quote "Your argument is sound, nothing but sound" and Jay Z's lyric of "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man"

Fact of the Day: The fax machine was patented in 1843 as the "Electric Printing Telegraph" and was successfully created in 1846

Fact of the Day: In 1784, a conflict in the Scheldt River called the "Kettle War" between the Northern Netherlands and the Holy Roman Empire promptly ended when the outnumbered defending forces fired a single shot, (1/2)

Fact of the Day: Because a person's height varies by small amounts throughout the day, the Guinness World Record holders for height both tall and short 6 different times throughout the day for confirmation

As the AI VA discourse rages on, a reminder to the dev friends and publisher pals out there: if you need a masc voiced VA, hmu. I would always rather do a little work without pay than have a game permanently tainted by the exploitation of Generative AI and desperately need to fill out my portfolio

Please do not purchase Luck be a Landlord on Xbox. I will be making a $10,000 donation to The Palestine Children's Relief Fund to (hopefully) help offset the revenue the game has generated for Microsoft.

Fuck Fortnite, Fuck Epic, Fuck The Game Awards. Posting this to their X but NOT their Bluesky just SHOWS they know they're doing some bigoted shit & just don't wanna get called out for it. Imagine hurting your Transgender playerbase like this? And your Transgender viewers {In the case of TGA}?

Guys, do not use the Discord Checkpoint thing (Discord's attempt at Spotify Wrapped). It requires enabling them access to scrape your data, and has an alarming amount of private data being used for it. Make sure you have these disabled.

An artist has dishonestly asked for & gotten thousands in donations for YEARS, deleting accounts when they get called out. They asked for $ TODAY. Please repost. Previously: PeachyMars, RainbowRidley, Gaiamoth, MagicaMavis @mavisdeluna.art DO NOT DONATE TO THEM. 50+ pages, 5+ yrs of evidence:

I love that I posted the wrong start time on both graphics and I'm 30 minutes late... Anyways we're live! Is Birfday! The 25! Slime Rancher 2 -> Mahjong -> Pokemon Randomizer Trivialocke -> Roguelikes :3 www.twitch.tv/itstripleaga...

❗**BLACK FRIDAY COMMS**❗ 20% OFF on commissions because I need to buy more meds (lower limb neuropaphy). Free shading AND background on purchases above €50. Sale ends on December 1st.

Fact of the Day: While birds don't hibernate, the common poorwill has the closest equivalent we know of, as it'll enter a state of torpor for several months, drastically reduce its body temperature to that which could be mistaken for death, dropping its daily energy needs to ~7%

Fact of the Day: While the modern Church and most modern media count there to be 7 Deadly Sins, historical and theological record identified two others that the Catholic church eventually deemed moot: Acedia (listlessness) and Vainglory (vanity)

Y'all ready for a long day of gaming? We have Town of Salem 2 with Ze tonight - let's have fun with some random stuff until then starting with an Isaac run! www.twitch.tv/itstripleaga...

If you, like me, can't use Gmail without the tabs and can't set up the inbox tabs yourself manually (it'd be a Herculean task with my blindness), if you leave Smart Features checked you can click Google Workplace Smart Features and disable the Gemini shit, which keeps Gmail the same as it was

Fact of the Day: Marcus Aurelius Carus was one of the shortest lived rulers of Rome, as he was reported struck by lightning and killed, ruling for just one year and the last of a series of emperors later historians would call "The Five Good Emperors" of Rome

Oh yeah, also I'm live now for a nice chill Coworking Wednesday <3 if you wanna lurk or chat and stuff twitch.tv/itstripleagaming

In 10 Days, I turn 25! To celebrate that, on Friday November 28th I'll be doing an extra long birthday stream! I'm aiming for at least 12 hours, with as much of it as possible being my uniquely crafted Pokemon Challenge, the Randomizer Trivialocke! (1/3)

I let the Bible App continue to desperately email me to use it again because it gives the same energy as muting but not blocking that one toxic ex whose messages give you validation for leaving them in the first place

Fact of the Day: The word Dinosaur was originally coin in 1841/1842 by Sir Richard Owen as "Dinosauria", combining the Greek words "deinos" meaning horrible/fearful and "sauros" meaning lizard; though Dinosauria became the clade in which all species of Dinosaur are now grouped

They're coming home, on my birthday, whatever that means 👀

Fact of the Day: Charles Darwin tried to eat a bombardier beetle on an expedition only to have it spray its explosive acids down his throat, which is designed for both propulsive movement, to injury predators, and/or force it to be thrown up from its common predators like frogs

PAX Unplugged is this month and I'm thrilled to join @officialpax.bsky.social again to give away some passes. Accessibility is so important, and that includes financial access. So if you want to attend, now's your chance! Comment your favorite ttrpg/tcg to enter. Details below. ⤵️ #Ad #Giveaway

Fact of the Day: Drunk driving wasn't outlawed nationally in the United States until 1988, and a standard blood alcohol level for drunk driving wasn't standardized until 2004

Fact of the Day: The Daedongyeojido, widely considered the oldest, accurate map of the Korean peninsula was made by Kim Jeong-ho in 1861 who made it after walking across the nation on foot and considered it his magnum opus

Fact of the Day: Just as objects can have magnetism induced with electromagnetism, at an object's "Curie Point" it loses its magnetic properties (Iron's, for example, is at 1418 degrees Fahrenheit) and is named for Pierre Curie (husband of Marie Skłodowska-Curie)

Fact of the Day: Some species of butterfly, like the Purple Emperor Butterfly and Blue Emperor Butterfly actually have black wings despite how they appear; the color they look like they are is due to a prismatic effect from their wings interacting with how we perceive light

Fact of the Day: The ear canals of roosters naturally plug when they tilt their head back, which allows them to protect their hearing with their 100+ decibel calls

Fact of the Day: A singular kanyao durian (a rare species of durian) was sold for auction in 2019 for $47,990 the day after it was picked, from a prestigious durian farm whose kanyao have a minimum sale price enforced of 20,000 Thai Baht or about $612 USD

That's right, I'm competing in a Mancala tournament! I'm hoping my Chess prowess helps me marble my way to victory! (Also yes insert wheelchair joke here about being knocked down and being pushed lol)

Fact of the Day: Though French monk Dom Pierre Pérignon was falsely considered the inventor of sparkling Champagne in the late 1600s, he is accurately historically credited with the modern bottle cork and ushering it in as an alternative to rag seals which would quickly become obsolete

Fact of the Day: The Eiffel Tower was originally designed to be a temporary fixture for a Paris based world fair, with plans to be taken apart in 1909 (10 years after it was built)

Fact of the Day: 7% of Bermuda's islands collective land has been converted into Golf Courses

Fact of the Day: In math exists "Perfect Numbers" - which (in simplified terms) are numbers whose factors equal the number itself when all added together, exclude the number itself, which include 6 (1+2+3), 28 (1+2+4+7+14), 496, and 8128

Fact of the Day: Bananas are one of the oldest fruits cultivated, even appearing on Egyptian hieroglyphics

Fact of the Day: The US Secret Service was signed into existence the same day President Lincoln was assassinated, though he envisioned them working as a counterfeit prevention and investigation agency initially and didn't start officially working as a protective agency until 1901

Fact of the Day: The eraser attachment for pencils for patented in 1858 by Hymen Lipman, who sold it for $100,000 in 1862, only for the company who bought it to lose a suit in the US Supreme Court in 1975 who declared the patent invalid as technically not an "invention"

Let's do a couple hours of solo streaming, shall we? :3 (Dead Estate, Isaac, Lego Party TCO, maybe Slime Rancher 2?) www.twitch.tv/itstripleaga...

Fact of the Day: During WW2, Dr Pepper petitioned Congress to reclassify them from a soda to a food. claiming they were a necessary source of energy for the work force. and in doing so successfully skirted wartime production restrictions on sugar

Fact of the Day: Mortar made using sticky rice was the primary binding agent used for the Great Wall of China and many other Chinese monument constructions of the Ming Dynasty