TIL

2024-12-08: John le Carre's contributions to the English language of spying

2024-10-18: TIL: Thanks to the innate lack of privacy that the technology has, whilst we might not know who …

2024-10-05: TIL: Until the 1948 Representation of the People Act, graduates of certain universities in the UK …

2024-08-04: TIL: Boris Johnson once disfigured a Long Covid report he was supposed to read by scrawling the word …

2024-08-03: TIL: The US' current cybersecurity legislation, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, is an evolution of …

2024-05-02: Happy 50th birthday to SQL! Structured Query Language is an incredibly popular computer language …

2024-02-08: TIL: Elon Musk wasn’t the founder of Tesla. Tesla’s real founders were Martin Eberhard …

2024-02-04: TIL: Buckingham Palace pays a council tax bill of £1,828 per year. That’s lower than 46% of …

2024-01-21: TIL: Ireland’s Dublin Airport holds an annual “Blessing of the Planes” ceremony. …

2023-12-07: TIL: When playing fruit machines, legally it’s the person who presses the button that gets the …

2023-11-13: Arcade claw machines are even more scammy than I thought

2023-11-07: TIL: The collective noun for a group of ferrets is a “business” of ferrets. So now you …

2023-10-23: Unsurprisingly, the 'eat 2000 calories a day' recommendation isn't very scientific

2023-08-28: TIL: There’s a version of chess you play on a hexagon shaped board made up of hexagons. It …

2023-08-01: TIL: There’s an estimated 3 million shipwrecks dotted across the ocean floors of our planet. …

2023-07-06: TIL: The US isn’t the only country to officially celebrate American independence on July 4th. …

2022-06-06: In “unexpected things I learned recently”, the UK’s Gender Recognition Act 2004, …