TIL

I saw a website do this and thought it was a great excuse to bring this capsule back to life!

23/06/2025 - The Japanese word for Policecar is ???? (Patoka), which sounds oddly cute. Like the name of a ChoroQ character or VTuber.

01/06/2025 - There are many types of traditional playing cards. The one used in the anglosphere (1-King, hearts, diamonds etc) are the French cards. Italy has it's own cards, and games to go with them. My cousin was teaching me how to play one.

29/05/2025 - There exists a "D" language that was supposed to be the successor to C++

29/05/2025 - The etymology of the name C# comes from the fact it was a successor to C++. The idea is that ++++ can also be represented as #.

27/05/2025 - Rollercoaster Tycoon was concieved by, and still owned by, a Scottish programmer; Tom Saywer.

24/05/2025 - Nick Clegg, former leader of the Liberal Democrats in England, later moved to the US to become an executive of Facebook. He has since been replaced. I found all of this out when he spoke out against those criticising Facebook's use of AI...

01/05/2025 - I learned of Karl Ulrichs, who was the first person to discover that homosexuality is just something you're kinda born with rather than it being a choice. He announced his findings and in that same announcement came out as gay himself. This was in the 1860s, so that took some guts. Proud of him. 🫡

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