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If you're having a hard time opening a jar or bottle, wrap a rubber band around the lid, then use that to grip and twist it. I don't know why it works so well but it does.

New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

My money's on 4.

TIL that only 1 song used in the film Singin' in the Rain was entirely new. All of the other songs, including Singin' in the Rain, had already been used in previous films in one form or another. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

"Moses Supposes" was the original song, for anyone curious.

This is a thought experiment "Ball on a Table" for detecting whether someone has Aphantasia. What do you see when you perform this experiment? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Very interesting!

My results

The ball was about the size of a baseball, and the table was square, but I couldn't answer any of the other questions without just making something up when they were asked.

What is the funniest one syllable word you can think of? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The Bjork Song

What's a good learning/study music album you would recommend? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Bonobo - Dial M for Monkey

You are being tortured. Your captor is forcing you to listen to someone else eat. What are they eating? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Oysters

Every element of the periodic table in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I'm impressed

If you could time travel, what would you change ? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I think everyone is just memeing on the original comment.

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Yelp is making me get their app to confirm my restaurant reservation (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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update - after doing some research online, I found I was able to just reply to the text message with "yes" and it confirmed the reservation.

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TIL Haydn's "Surprise Symphony" was NOT written to wake up sleeping audience members; that was just a myth (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Back in school I heard the story that Haydn wrote the "Surprise Symphony" because he was sick of people sleeping through his music, and wanted to startle them awake. It seems like this was a myth.

From the Wikipedia article:

In Haydn's old age, his biographer Georg August Griesinger asked him whether he wrote this "surprise" to awaken the audience. Haydn replied:

No, but I was interested in surprising the public with something new...

Why do all the cool stories from history end up being made up?

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Anyone else have their eclipse viewing ruined by clouds? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Was in south Ontario, the sky was clear for about an hour before totality, and then about 15 minutes before, a big dark cloud came in and ruined it.