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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 05/11/2025

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

trans flag waving beautifully in the wind

daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 13/10/2025

Whereas the original Bliss was purchased from the National Geographic photographer Charles O'Rear for six figures after it was listed on a photography website, New Bliss was simply taken from a post on Deviantart. (2/2)

deviantart uploaded titled "Grassy" by "judge." dated january 24th, 2003

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 10/10/2025

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.

two photos of the Telipogon diabolicus, one showing the whole flower, and the other zoomed in to show off its devilish gynostemium.

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 30/09/2025

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.

SPLAYDS are TRUMPS for CHRISTMAS GIFTS

The Splayd is an All-in-One Eating Instrument: knife, fork, spoon, made beautifully in crafted stainless steal. Buy them at David Jones, Agnus & Coote, Martha Washington's, 22a Martin Place, & leading stores.

Trade inquiries: BX6053

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 23/09/2025

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.

Double sided USB-A connectors. the little white plastic shit is a thin strip and there's conductive pads on both sides

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 11/09/2025

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

Talk: Sexual intercourse
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Anders Torlind (talk | contribs) at 18:22, 11 September 2001. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

YIKES! I came here from the Prostitution page - surely we have to qualify the 'for reproduction' part of the statement if it's linked to prostitution! And what about all those - ahem - other activities. Not to mention homosexuality. If we keep this definition the way it is, prostitution should link to something else!

Seems to serve perfectly fine for that at least, although it DOES need some more content (notably homesexual intercourse). Feel free to add! :-) (oh, and by the way, it's dry and factual on purpose, in order to avoid bias)---Anders Törlind

Well, it's exactly that kind of attitude that had some people wondering what Bill Cllinton actually MEANT by sexual contact! --MichaelTinkler

I'm sorry that i have offended you, although i know not what i have done. Please accept my aplogies. --Anders Törlind

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 04/09/2025

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

gravestone that claims it is of a man who died eating library paste

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 24/08/2025

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.

"WIND SHIELD FOR CARRIAGE" patent from 1904. Hand drawn illustration depicts a windshield on a baby stroller.

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 16/08/2025

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.

Scenic view of Salem Sue from acres away, proudly perched atop her hill as a setting sun splashes the sky a cool yellow.

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 09/08/2025

Also, in 1997, a worm arrived. They killed it in 1998. That's fucked up. (3/3)

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 23/07/2025

Hailed as a competitor to Twitter, it distinguished itself by displaying posts in a unique horizontal timeline. ... A month later, Plurk formally accused Microsoft of plagiarizing their service, claiming that 80% of MSN Juku's codebase was stolen directly from them. (2/3)

Comparison posted by Plurk showing the similiarities between their service and MSN Juku

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 20/07/2025

july 19th, 2025: One of the earliest microblogging sites to be hailed as a competitor to Twitter was Plurk, which launched in 2008. Headquartered in Taiwan, it distinguished itself by displaying posts in a unique horizontal timeline. (1/2)

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 14/07/2025

july 14th, 2025: Happy 19th anniversary to the party where Noah Glass drunkenly decided to soft launch Twttr before anyone else on the project's team was ready, the Valleyschwag Hoedown!

The Valleyschwag Hoedown
Where: The Valleyschwag Ranch / 365 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA
When: July 14th, 2006
Time: 8pm - 12am
RSVP: Add your name to the list
Attend remotely: Register your satellite hoedown

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 19/06/2025

At their inception, the Elmer's products were manufactured by the Borden Dairy company, whose mascot was Elsie the Cow, and as such, Elmer the Bull was created to serve as Elsie's husband. Early ads highlighted the family dynamic of the cows and their children. (2/2)

Vintage ad for Borden's Chemical division where Elmer proudly shows Elsie a molding process the company designed.

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 26/05/2025

may 26th, 2025: In 1928, the Gerber Products Company held a contest to find a face for its latest advertising campaign: canned baby food. (1/3)

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 26/05/2025

may 25th, 2025: The first tweet ever sent was, quite famously, "just setting up my twttr" by Jack Dorsey. A lesser known fact is that during the early prototyping phase of the platform, "just setting up my twttr" was an automated tweet that was sent upon account creation. (1/2)

7 tweets, each reading "just setting up my twttr", all sent on March 21st, 2006, sent by Dom Sagolla, Adam Rugel, Tony Stubblebine, crystal, noah glass, Biz Stone, and jack respectively.

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 24/05/2025

may 23rd, 2025: In 2001, over a month before Windows XP was officially launched by Microsoft, a copy of the operating system was leaked by the warez (in layman's terms, file sharing and piracy) group DEVILS0WN. More notoriously, it was leaked alongside a volume licensing key. (1/3)

A homemade copy of Windows XP pro being shown off at Microsoft's HQ, 35 days before the operating system's launch. A product key is proudly displayed on the CD.

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 07/05/2025

Upon realizing that having Sam Elliott play himself would be a retread of Mayor Adam West's character, the producers asked the actor to play a cousin of Adam West named Wild West, which Elliott agreed to. (2/2)

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 20/04/2025

april 19th, 2025: In the instruction booklet for the 1994 game Donkey Kong Country, the character Cranky Kong appears throughout to provide his thoughts on the game's quality.

Cranky Kong: "You're only reading this because you're bored!"

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 11/04/2025

april 10th, 2025: In 2015, news broke that a Plants Vs. Zombies movie was in development at DreamWorks. Though it never came out, Rich Werner, an artist for the original game, revealed that a script was written and pitched. The following concept art for it was done by DreamWorks artist Peter Zaslav.

plants vs zombies movie concept art. wide shot of crazy dave and his plants. of note are the very huge plants and small boy main character.

plants vs zombies movie concept art. wide shot of all the zombies, each one looking particularly creepy

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 09/04/2025

april 9th, 2025: According to the in-game Suburban Almanac, the buckethead zombie wears a bucket in his head in order to "assert his uniqueness in an uncaring world."

buckethead zombie wearing a bucket on his head

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 06/04/2025

april 5th, 2025: The American fast food chain Burger King operates in Australia under the name Hungry Jack's. When the chain wanted to expand to the country, it turned out a small burger restaurant in the area was already doing business under the name Burger King... (1/2)

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 04/04/2025

april 3rd 2025: From its founding in 1865 till around 1898, the company Nokia had a fish in its logo. Throughout the centuries Nokia would produce toilet paper, rubber boots, and become a worldwide leader in mobile networking infrastructure and the global 5G rollout.

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 26/03/2025

march 26th, 2025: The oldest known shoe was found in a cave in Armenia in 2008. The shoe was made of leather and filled with grass, with radiocarbon dating revealing that it was created around 3500 b.c.

a 5500 year old leather shoe sitting on a notebook

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 10/03/2025

MAR10, 2025: At 10:03 AM EDT on the morning of September 11th, 2001, four passenger flights were hijacked and flown into various targets, including the Twin Towers, in what is now considered the deadliest terror attack on record. Including the present Al-Qaeda members, 2,996 people died in total.

Explosion following United Airlines Flight 175's impact into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 28/02/2025

february 27th, 2025: Terrifying 9/11 is an unlicensed GameBoy Color game released in 2002 that is infamous for using actual footage from 9/11 in its cutscenes. Despite using shocking iconography, the game itself is actually a recreation of Metal Slug, a game released on the Neo Geo.

the box art for TERRIFYING 9/11 for the "New Game Color," featuring american flags, an explosion over the twin towers, a scope aimed at said explosion, and osama bin laden

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 08/01/2025

In the years since Experimental Penguins' launch, Lance Priebe has stated he chose penguins because when he realized he needed a simple, expressive character, he looked around his desk and saw a Far Side comic of a penguin, and realized the creature would be perfect. (2/2)

comic of a penguin. despite standing on a long, flat, wide open iceberg, the penguin has somehow slipped and fallen on a banana peel

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 03/01/2025

january 2nd, 2024: The Shortspine thornyhead, a species of fish found in the Pacific Ocean along the coasts of the U.S. and Canada, is also commonly known as the Idiot Fish.

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 17/12/2024

december 16th, 2024: The 20th Century Fox fanfare was composed by Alfred Newman in 1933 for the studio 20th Century Pictures, Inc., two years prior to its merger with the Fox Film Corporation. The fanfare was extended by Newman in 1955 to accompany 20th Century-Fox's then new CinemaScope movies.

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 09/12/2024

december 8th, 2024: The first documented electric instrument was invented in 1753. It is known as the clavecin électrique, and it is effectively an electric harpsichord.

digitized sketch of the clavecin électrique

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 06/12/2024

december 5th, 2024: Before the Oreo, there was Hydrox. A chocolate sandwich cookie with a layer of creme filling and an intricate pattern on both sides, it began production in 1908, 4 years before Oreos.

A vintage advertisement for Hydrox, it reads "Don't be fooled by 'look-alikes'!" and claims "Only Sunshine makes HYDROX, the Original Cream-filled Chocolate Cookie... finest ever made!"

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 03/12/2024

Thus, a breed known as the "flemish giant," which can grow up to 4 feet long and weigh 20 pounds, was used. While massive in the hands of their handlers, these rabbits appeared moderately sized next to the teletubbies. (2/2)

collage of 3 photos, one of teletubbies on their elbows admiring rabbits, another of a massive outstretched rabbit in the hands of a handler, clearly struggling to hold it, and one last behind the scenes photo of the show

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 01/12/2024

november 30th, 2024: Bally, the Chicago based manufacturer or pinball machines, slot machines, and arcade games, got its name from an early pinball game they created named Ballyhoo. A simple game, players would use the plunger to land the ball in a hole, each one corresponding to a point value.

wooden tabletop pinball game. notably missing flippers, this game is controlled with only the plunger. 7 balls for 1 cent.

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 10/11/2024

The fruit gets its name from the vine it grows on, the passionflower. Despite this name conjuring images of intense emotion when eating the fruit, that surprisingly has nothing to do with it. It was actually named by Spanish missionaries in the 1500s... (2/3)

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 10/11/2024

november 10th, 2024: Passion fruit is a sweet, tart fruit that contains edible pulp and seeds. Although native to South America, it is also cultivated in other tropical regions such as Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii, as well as subtropical areas of the United States. (1/3)

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 09/11/2024

november 8th, 2024: as hardware stores like to say, "THESE ARE NOT MADE THEY SHOULD NEVER BE MADE WE WILL NOT MAKE THEM WE WILL NOT HELP MAKE THEM" and yet, demand for them persists. why? (1/3)

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 31/10/2024

Happy Grinch Night from the Daily Knowledge family

title card from a 70s animated special, "Halloween Is Grinch Night"

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 20/09/2024

september 19th, 2024: Sideburns are named after the American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside, who, among other things, was known for having incredibly prominent sideburns.

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 19/09/2024

september 18th, 2024: dogs can wear hats, but where did this hat come from? it was designed by David Thomsen, a retired programmer from Philadelphia who throughout his 70s, became a prolific Wikipedia editor. (1/2)

a dog wearing a tan and blue baseball cap that says "Wikipedia Editor"

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 26/08/2024

august 25th, 2024: HAPPY 33RD ANNIVERSARY LINUX!!!! groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/…

message from Linus Torvalds to the comp.os.minix usenet group:

Hello everybody out there using minix -

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing
since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on
things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
(same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
among other things).

I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.
This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and
I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions
are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)

Linus (torv...@kruuna.helsinki.fi)

PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 17/08/2024

TODAY'S DAILY KNOWLEDGE WAS WRITTEN BY MY FRIEND MACKENZIE!!! :D august 16th, 2024: the 4-8-2 "mountain" type of steam locomotive originated in the Colony of Natal in the early 1900s. (1/5)

steam locomotive with "2178" on its side

steam locomotive with "Great Northern Railway" and "1755" on its side

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 05/07/2024

july 4th, 2024: What's that? You thought this was a bunny? Well guess again, it's Winnie the Pooh! that's right, this plush was released by Disney in March of 2021 to celebrate the beginning of the Easter season. as a limited edition doll, it is no longer in stock.

a plush of Winnie the Pooh dressed up in a cyan Easter Bunny outfit

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 13/06/2024

(notably Hell-Bent for Election, funded by the UAW), as well as participating in the 1941 Disney strike. here he is pictured leading the pack, wearing an executioner's uniform.

Chuck Jones leading a group of protestors all wearing executioner's uniforms. The group is carrying a guillotine while Chuck is holding a sign that says "Happy Birthday to Gunther & Walt"

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 04/06/2024

june 3rd, 2024: the developers of the Coleco Adam port of Donkey Kong Jr. created an entire extra level for the game that Nintendo did NOT approve of. this level was removed from the final release.

an unused level of Donkey Kong Jr. for the Coleco Adam

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daily knowledge @knowledge.wisp.place · 28/05/2024

may 27th, 2024: using two wrenches, you can break almost any padlock open by placing them at 90 degrees to each other in the shackle and squeezing the handles of the wrenches together. the upper handle acts as a lever, multiplying the force applied to the padlock, allowing you to destroy it.

two wrenches at a 90 degree angle in a padlock.

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