anyways i do still intend to resume daily knowledge posting and move it to leaflet, i just need to do a real good knowledge for my first post on there and i have been too lazy/busy to do that

november 4th, 2025: Our flag was still there.

leaflet has a better rss experience than bluesky. for that matter, how many people even know bluesky lets you follow accounts via rss? i'm guessing it's not a lot leaflet wins!

Wondering if Leaflet would be a better fit for this format. A decent amount of knowledges fit within one tweet but notably not all of them. It'd be on the shorter side compared to most Leaflet publications but I'm kinda thinking I could make this little microblog better if I switched. Thoughts?

october 16th, 2025: When Instagram began rolling out Reels in November of 2019, the first country to get access to the feature was Brazil.

october 14th, 2025: #packwatch

october 13th, 2025:

october 12th, 2025: Windows XP Media Center Edition shipped with a theme called Royale. The picture chosen to be the desktop background of this theme was named New Bliss. (1/2)

october 10th, 2025: HAPPY 15TH ANNIVERSARY TO MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC!!!!!

october 9th, 2025: Telipogon diabolicus is a species of orchid that gets the name diabolicus and its nickname of "devil's head orchid" from its gynostemium that resembles a tiny red devil.

apologies for going 3 days without posting. this WILL happen again.

october 8th, 2025: HAPPY INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN DAY!!!!!!

october 4th, 2025:

october 3rd, 2025: Likewise, the Latin prefixes novem- and dec- mean 9 and 10 respectively. As such, November and December are the 11th and 12th months of the year.

october 2nd, 2025: The Latin prefix "octo" means eight, making October, naturally, the tenth month of the year.

september 30th, 2025: One year ago on this day, the social media website Cohost marked its last day of operation.

september 29th, 2025: The spork combines the utilities of a knife and a fork. This is common knowledge. Less common knowledge is its logical successor, the SPLAYD. Invented by an Australian man named William McArthur, it has features of a spoon, knife, and fork.

september 28th, 2025: The intro of Family Guy features Lois Griffin playing the piano before Peter Griffin joins to sing along as a reference to the intro of All In The Family

september 27th, 2025: Happy birthday JOSEPH JOESTAR!!!!!

september 25th, 2025: I guess you didn't know it but I'm a fiddle player too, and if you'd care to take a dare I'll make a bet with you. NOW YOU PLAY A PRETTY GOOD FIDDLE BOY, but give The Devil her do... I'LL BET A FIDDLE OF GOLD AGAINST YOUR SOUL CUZ I THINK I'M BETTER THAN YOU‼️

september 24th, 2025:

september 23rd, 2025: Although USB-A was deliberately designed to not be reversible in order to keep manufacturing costs low, reversible USB-A connectors have been created.

september 21st, 2025: To my friends in the southern hemisphere, happy spring equinox, and to my friends in the northern hemisphere, happy autumn equinox.

september 20th, 2025: wait it's batman day apparently? yeah let's go with that HAPPY BATMAN DAY!!!!!

september 18th, 2025: On this day 35 years ago, Liechtenstein became a member of the United Nations.

september 17th, 2025:

september 15th, 2025: Happy 10th anniversary to the release of Undertale!

september 14th, 2025: The English word "cookie" is derived from the Dutch word "koekje", which means "little cake."

september 11th, 2025: 24 years ago on this day, a fierce argument erupted on the Wikipedia page for sexual intercourse.

september 10th, 2025:

september 9th, 2025: Happy 26th birthday to the SEGA Dreamcast!

september 8th, 2025:

september 7th, 2025: As of the time of writing, the world's most recent frozen pizza to be sold was sold less than a second ago.

september 5th, 2025: Butter can't be churned from milk. When milk fresh from a cow is allowed to rest for long enough, a layer heavy in milkfat will rise to the top. This layer is skimmed off and sold as heavy cream, which in the United States, must be 36% milkfat to be marketed as such. (1/2)

september 4th, 2025: On July 14th, 1908, an unknown man allegedly died eating library paste.

september 2nd, 2025:

september 1st, 2025: HAPPY LABOR DAY!!!!!!

august 31st, 2025: HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY, HATSUNE MIKU!!!!!

august 30th, 2025: An 1884 U.S. patent for what could today be described as peanut butter was filed by a man named Marcellus Gilmore Edson. It details how roasting the peanuts is what gives the resulting product its characteristic gooey texture, rather than becoming peanut flour, once ground. (1/2)

august 29th, 2025: The Subway fast food chain has deep ties to the state of Connecticut. The first Subway, then known as Pete's Super Submarines, opened in Bridgeport, CT in 1964. (1/2)

august 28th, 2025: Why did I take a 3 day break? Basically, I was too busy eating potato wedges.

august 24th, 2025: 30 years ago on this day, Windows 95 was released. The start button graced the screens of millions of computers, and the iconic startup jingle graced the ears of users for the first time. The desktop became a friendlier place overnight.

august 23rd, 2025: The earliest known instance of the term "windshield" being used comes from a patent filed in 1904, which showed the device being used on a baby carriage to protect children from the elements.

august 21st, 2025: According to World Population Report, 34.5 million tonnes of bananas were produced by India in 2022. This makes India the single biggest producer of bananas on the world, making over 3 times as many bananas as the country holding the number 2 spot, China.

august 19th, 2025: Although VCR, meaning videocassette recorder, is a generic term that any product recording video to a cassette can use, VHS is a registered trademark. It stands for Video Home System.

august 18th, 2025: The first Android phone was the HTC Dream, released in October 2008. The phone's slide-out keyboard was its only text input method at the time, since Android 1.0 did not ship with a built in onscreen keyboard.

august 16th, 2025: Dunkin' Donuts Park is a baseball stadium in Hartford, CT that opened in 2017, the same year Dunkin' Donuts purchased the naming rights to it. As Dunkin' Donuts rebranded to Dunkin' in 2019, the stadium was subsequently renamed Dunkin' Park in 2022... (1/2)

august 15th, 2025: Salem Sue is The World's Largest Holstein Cow. Erected in North Dakota in 1974, she stands proud as an icon to dairy producers and enjoyers the world over, visible for miles around.

AND BY THE WAY THEY'RE CALLED TRAILERS BECAUSE THEY TRAIL BEHIND THE TRUCK

august 11th, 2025: The wild ancestor to the modern chicken is a bird native to Southeast Asia called the red junglefowl. Known scientifically as the Gallus gallus, it sports a slimmer, more colorful, and overall more elegant appearance than its human raised counterparts.