The TILT Thread (Today I Learned That…)

[toastghost]

tilt the woman who wrote mary had a little lamb was also a big reason why thanksgiving is a national holiday now

 

[Lone_Garurumon]

TIL that hand mixing is actually better for a lot of batters than electric mixing. Electric mixers are a lot more likely to overmix them, and the result will tend to be denser and less fluffy

 

[Juliyet]

TIL in-depth about "The Moon Illusion".

You know when you see the moon looking larger than usual? It's just an optical illusion called "The Moon Illusion".

There's still some mystery regarding it's scientific explanation, but a usual one is potentially due to perspective, and seeing objects and/or a horizon in close proximity to compare the moon to. It's a fascinating rabbit hole

 

[Salmancer]

People bet on when the Tanana River in Alaska thaws out after Winter. There is even a special set up designed to provide the exact timing, by having a tripod frozen to the ice connected via line to a nearby tower. When the ice breaks up, the tripod starts moving along the river, which breaks the line.

 

[zoroarctic]

TIL the phrase "Holy Toledo" refers to the old Spanish Kingdom of Toledo due to the cultural influence of the three major Abrahamic religions. Also, "holy mackerel" is apparently a euphemism for "Holy Mary" or "Holy Mother of God."

 

[Herbizarre]

TIL I learned in my Danish lessons how the numbers from 50 to 90 are counted.

Basically, the number 20 is used as the base unit (as in, "a number of times 20"), meaning that counting to 60 is literally "three times 20". The same goes for 80 (four times 20, just like the we say that number in French I just realized !). Sounds fair enough, right ? When written in danish, the complete writing would be "tresindstyve" for 60 and "firesindstyve". A bit long, but still short enough imo. Now when it comes to counting the 50, 70 and 90 numbers, it's basically "2/3/4 x 20 + half of 20". For 50, the complete form would be "halvtredjesindstyve", which is obviously way too long to write. Thankfully, you can write these numbers without the "-sindstyve" at the end, so you have, for 50, 60, 70, 80 and 90 : halvtreds, tres, halvfjerds, firs and halvfems.

And get this : apparently, up until August 2009, Danish banknotes of 50 DKK were labeled femti kroner and on a cheque (or official document) it is written treti, firti, femti, seksti, syvti, otti and niti to complement the amount written in numbers... Which means that in the context of banking, counting numbers is far easier than the regular numbers, and in fact it is quite similar to the english way of writing those numbers.

I only have one question left to ask... What were they thinking !?

 

[mastermind lissi]

TILT beryl is a real mineral and a source of the element beryllium, and it’s not just a nickname/shortening of the user beryllium’s username!

 

[mastermind lissi]

Ooh I have another

TILT katniss and Peeta from the hunger games used to have the ship name…

Spoiler: …

peeniss. Yes, that’s what it used to actually be. And it’s sometimes still used lol
edit: theres also KatPee…. oh god why did the two main characters have to have such unfortunate names

anyways I see the name “everlark” more often, which Is made from their last names, Everdeen and Mellark

 

[Juliyet]

TILT there's an Internet challenge known as The "Little Drummer Boy Challenge", where people attempt to go the entire Christmas season (typically starting midnight of Black Friday through Christmas Eve) without hearing some variation of The Little Drummer Boy.

And if you're curious, i've already lost, lmao

 

[mastermind lissi]

TILT there's an Internet challenge known as The "Little Drummer Boy Challenge", where people attempt to go the entire Christmas season (typically starting midnight of Black Friday through Christmas Eve) without hearing some variation of The Little Drummer Boy.

And if you're curious, i've already lost, lmao

Still haven’t heard it lol

 

[Salmancer]

TIL that my phone cannot send emails if its storage is near capacity, even though it can still receive emails in such a state.

(This feels like the kind of absurd contradiction that forms the backbone of an Ace Attorney case....)

 

[MC.Princess]

TILT anti clockwise and counterclockwise are the same thing.

Now if only that helped me with getting a Rainbow Alcremie…

 

[InfiniteBakuphoon]

Today I learned that truly no one in the West knows anything about Aitakute... your smiles in my heart, and just how much that sucks.

On the other hand, that also means that today I learned just how low obscure Japanese romance games can go on eBay, haha.

 

[guzmania]

today i learned that the corpse flower is something p much wholly unrelated to the rafflesia (which is also not just like, one specific species of flower)

 

[StormyStinger]

Today I learned that Comfeys T-pose looks like this:

Spoiler: comfeys model

It's really interesting looking at the models in the models resource, you should give that website a look if you've got time to burn.

 

[JollyYoshi]

TILT Sofia is the Spanish/Italian/Portugese version of the name

 

[Blanc]

TIL that people wear gloves when playing Chunithm to avoid burning their fingers doing slide notes, I thought it was just for sanitation and courtesy!

 

[Dubious Disc]

TIL that when you hear a word so many times that it stops sounding like a word, the name for that phenomenon is "semantic satiation".

 

[InfiniteBakuphoon]

Not actually today, but this is something that I kept on forgetting to add here, haha, so I'm going to do it here and now while it's still on my mind!

Today I learned that betta fish is actually spelled, well, "betta" and not "beta" like I always thought it did. I had one as one of my first "pets" of sorts when I was really young, so that's how I thought about that!

 

[InfiniteBakuphoon]

Not sure if this is actually true or not, so do take this with a grain of salt. But if it's true, it's hilarious in a slightly dark and cynical kind of way.

Today I learned that on the reality TV series Shark Tank — or Dragons' Den for those of you in Canada, the UK, and other places; we call it Shark Tank here in the U.S. — there's apparently a tendency for contestants to sweat profusely while doing their pitches. This implies that perhaps the room that they're in is super-warm or something, but then this tendency to sweat seems to elude the titular sharks who appear totally fine in comparison. There is a "conspiracy theory" of sorts that the producers are actually making the room warm on purpose (!!!) to make it seem like the figurative heat of the "sharks" (or "dragons", haha) are getting to the contestants, while everyone else gets air conditioning or a fan next to them or something. The video that I first heard this from mentioned it as a semi-joke, but...

Spoiler: The video in question, for those who are interested...