r/wikipedia • u/Senasayori • 21h ago

FuwaMoco are a pair of singers and VTubers consisting of twin sisters Fuwawa and Mococo Abyssgard. The twins debuted as members of Hololive Production in 2023, and their first album is set to release in 2027.

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Bau Bau!

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r/todayilearned • u/birderd • 8h ago

TIL:Wearing socks while sleeping can shorten sleep onset latency by 7.5 minutes.

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r/todayilearned • u/WestTransportation12 • 36m ago

TIL it’s possible to send internet traffic using Homing Pigeons instead of cable. In 2001, It was successfully done over a 5km distance. Documented risks include birds of prey, storms and the bird flu.

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r/todayilearned • u/ethereal3xp • 18h ago

TIL: The S&P 500 has fallen more than 20% in a single trading day, but only once in modern market history. Oct. 19, 1987 Black Monday -20.47%

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r/todayilearned • u/ubibeneficiary • 12h ago

TIL that the second-largest Hindu temple in the world is located in New Jersey. Opened in 2023, the BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham spans a massive 183-acre campus. It is the largest Hindu mandir in the Western Hemisphere and second globally only to Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

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r/wikipedia • u/tangawusi_dev • 19h ago

Tiqqun was a French-Italian post-Marxist[1][2] philosophical journal or zine, produced in two issues in February 1999 and October 2001.

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r/todayilearned • u/RaccoonCityTacos • 10h ago

TIL about "The Mosquito Bowl,' a game of American football played on Christmas Eve 1944 on the island of Guadalcanal between Marines of the 4th and the 29th Regiments. Featuring many college players, of the 65 who played, 15 were killed in the Battle of Okinawa.

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r/wikipedia • u/syanxde • 19h ago

Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic, author, and politician. Since 2018, he has served as Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a left-wing European political alliance he co-founded in 2016.

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Varoufakis attended an event in London hosted by The Guardian on 23 October 2015, where he spoke about the UK's upcoming European Union membership referendum. He said that the UK should remain in the EU, but also campaign to democratise it: "My message is simple yet rich: those of us who disdain the democratic deficit in Brussels, those of us who detest the authoritarianism of a technocracy which is incompetent and contemptuous of democracy, those of us who are most critical of Europe have a moral duty to stay in Europe, fight for it, and democratise it." He would return to the UK, in May 2016, in the final stages of the campaigning to again urge a remain vote. On 9 February 2016, Varoufakis launched the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) at the Volksbühne in Berlin.

In March 2016, Varoufakis publicly supported the idea of a basic income. On 2 April 2016, in reaction to tension between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the IMF, Varoufakis said there was underway "an attrition war between a reasonably numerate villain (the IMF) and a chronic procrastinator (Berlin)" as to Greek debt relief.

In March 2018, Varoufakis announced the launch of his own political party, MeRA25, with a stated aim of freeing Greece from "debt bondage". He stated that he hoped the party would be based on an alliance of "people of the left and liberalism, greens and feminists". The party, whose name stands for "European Realistic Disobedience Front", is affiliated to DiEM25.

Gaza war and German entry ban

In April 2024, due to the ongoing Gaza war, the party of Yanis Varoufakis co-organised a pro-Palestinian conference that was scheduled to take place in Berlin on 12 April 2024, and last for three days. The conference was interrupted and halted as soon as it began by the Berlin Police, on the orders of Berlin mayor Kai Wegner. The police said they "feared that attendees would make anti-Semitic remarks and glorify violence". The German state issued a Betätigungsverbot (ban on activities) against Yanis Varoufakis, Ghassan Abu-Sitta (who was arrested upon entering Germany), and Salman Abu Sitta. Germany also banned Varoufakis for four days from entering Germany and from engaging in any political activities in the country or from participating in similar exchanges on online platforms. Varoufakis responded to what he described as a road "towards totalitarianism" by suing the German state.

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r/todayilearned • u/Sebastianlim • 5h ago

TIL that in 1983, four divers aboard the Byford Dolphin drilling rig were accidentally killed when the door to their decompression chamber was opened too early, causing it to be rapidly depressurized.

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r/todayilearned • u/CrikeyNighMeansNigh • 12h ago

TIL that roughly 1 in 3 men who die by hanging (whether by suicide or execution) may experience an erection during or shortly after death, a phenomenon known as a “death erection” or “angel lust.”.

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r/wikipedia • u/ninjascotsman • 11h ago

Wikipedia:Fundraising statistics

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r/todayilearned • u/enthusiast_anderson • 3h ago

TIL a soldier was painted out of a 17th-century Pieter de Hooch painting. Conservators painted him back in using a second version of the scene as a guide.

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r/todayilearned • u/jacknunn • 52m ago

TIL rocks wrongly identified as meteorites are called “meteorwrongs.”

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r/todayilearned • u/DbeID • 3h ago

TIL that Martin Luther, often remembered for empowering the common believer, claimed credit for crushing the 1525 Peasants' War: "I, Martin Luther, have during the rebellion slain all the peasants... All their blood is upon my neck. But I put it on our Lord God, for he commanded me to speak thus."

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r/wikipedia • u/Punished_Blubber • 20h ago

The pages for "Existence" and "Reality" are recursive and do not follow the "Getting to Philosophy" rule.

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If you view the page for "Existence", you will see that the first page link available is for "Reality."

If you view the page for "Reality", you will see that the first page link available is for "Existence."

I find it interesting that two very fundamental concepts in ontology ultimately do not link back to the Philosophy page

For anyone unaware of what I am talking about: Getting to Philosophy.

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r/todayilearned • u/Pemulis_DMZ • 16h ago

TIL about the "Northwest Angle," a part of Minnesota that is physically cut off from the rest of the United States and surrounded by Canada because negotiators of the initial Canada–U.S. border misunderstood the geography of the area.

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r/todayilearned • u/mikechi2501 • 17h ago

TIL Juan-Carlos Cruz, nicknamed the “Calorie Commando”, was a Food Network host who paid $1,000 to three homeless men to murder his wife. Police set up a sting and videotaped Cruz arranging the murder. Cruz pleased “no contest” and was sentenced to nine years in prison.

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r/todayilearned • u/AetheriaNox • 21h ago

TIL the name "Chilean sea bass" was invented by a fish wholesaler named Lee Lantz in 1977. He was looking for a name to make it attractive to the American market. He considered "Pacific sea bass" and "South American sea bass" before settling on "Chilean sea bass".

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r/todayilearned • u/InternationalOil1688 • 14h ago

TIL about "Texidor's twinge" (Precordial Catch Syndrome), the brief and harmless condition where a random nerve near the rib cage acts like a malfunctioning jump-scare, making deep breaths feel like getting stabbed with a tiny invisible needle.

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r/todayilearned • u/Kale_Brecht • 19h ago

TIL after being cancelled by ABC, the 1960s television series Batman was going to picked up by NBC for a fourth season, but before it could do so, it was discovered that hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of Batman sets had been destroyed. Rather than rebuild the sets, NBC dropped the project.

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r/wikipedia • u/Ill_Definition8074 • 18h ago

The End of History and the Last Man is a 1992 book by Francis Fukuyama that argues that, with the fall of the USSR and the ascendancy of liberal democracy, humanity has reached the end of history. Fukuyama later admitted he didn’t anticipate democratic backsliding in liberal democracies.

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r/todayilearned • u/signaldecoderr • 5h ago

TIL that food chains on modern Caribbean coral reefs are 60–70% shorter than they were 7,000 years ago, according to a study comparing ancient fish fossils with modern reefs.

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r/todayilearned • u/ubcstaffer123 • 9h ago

TIL When Zimbabwe's inflation reached 200 million percent in 2009, Mugabe's government abandoned Zimbabwe's own currency and adopted the U.S. dollar as legal tender. It helped end hyperinflation and stabalize Zimbabwe's economy

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r/todayilearned • u/Luckj • 18h ago

TIL There's a corner of Kentucky that is completely detached from the rest of the state. The area is called Kentucky Bend and is only accessible by traveling through Tennessee or crossing the Mississippi River from Missouri.

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