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Mine:
- Bugsnax
- Sigmund Freud
- Doug Ducey
- Racial discrimination in jury selection
- Jaguar
- City of Gastronomy
🎶 Talkin' 'bout Bugsnax 🎶
- Weimar Republic
- Good Night White Pride(on German Wikipedia)
- First Opium War
- Finland–Russia relations
- Cambrian
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
- The Farmer in the Dell
- Le Fermier dans son pré (French version of the above)
- The Wheel of Time
- New Spring
The first three all related to a recent conversation in !vampires@lemmy.zip.
Vitamin B7 (Biotin)
I was looking up whether it is fat- or water soluble, because the former can be dangerous to your liver if you are taking supplements like I do. This was the only vitamin with far over 100% the recommended amount in said supplement.
I wanted to know the difference between them because I was drawing digitally and changed the color picker settings.
I was wondering why we forget stuff when walking into a different room sometimes.
I don't remember—but I know the compose key is useful.
I was looking at different spins of Fedora Linux, and saw the Budgie version, which I hadn't heard of before.
Saw a post on Lemmy about recent protests in the US so I went and checked how big protests were.
It was Father's Day in some places, but not where I live, so I was curious about Father's Day dates.
Taskmaster, as we tried to figure out how big the production team was! I don't think we figured out precisely, but larger than what my husband thought, just going off of how many editors and producers were listed.
I'm super curious with what you roughly came up with! I never would have thought to look it up.
"More than four people in the room for writing tasks" is what we agreed on lmfao. So a very rough guess (he said less than, I said more than)
- 2-Pyrrolidone
- Fatah al-Islam
- Proto-Afroasiatic Language
- Atemrhythmisch angepasste Phonation (respiratory rhythmically adapted phonation?)
- Atemstütze (respiratory support)
The most recent one had to do with a drug I took in Disco Elysium - wanted to see if it actually exists.
Not sure about the second most recent anymore.
In university, I had learned about proto-indoeuropean and wanted to see if there's a common language ancestor for African language. Turns out there are several origin languages.
And the last two have to do with my SLP apprenticeship. Both are concepts learned about in voice therapy and the latter is also a concept learned about with singers
- Parallel ATA
- Amateur Radio
- Scandinavian defense
- History of tablet computers
- (i was searching for the oldest ones because my friend was asking for tablet recommendations. im hilarious)
- Magic SysRQ key
- Rodolph Mooshammer
- Hermaphrodite
- Cockroach
- Jinn
- Vorratsdatenspeicherung
...i reset my browser daily, so i only have the past twenty-four hours of browsing history...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2025_Central_Texas_floods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Altar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar_Gate
...that's really only an hour or so of browsing between returning home last night and this morning, not including the bulk of my time at work yesterday...
I'm curious how 1840 came up.
it's a number progression, 1839 came before it
- Herbert Hoover
- List of Extinct Dog Breed
- United States Senate Elections 2026 in [State]
- A Woman Under the Influence
- Gengar
What's that app
Looks like the Wikipedia app
Just the Wikipedia app from the android app store
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukigassen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lockdowns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Age
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_cab
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_wage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Air_Flight_072
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_the_Ants_(novel)
I only included pages from the English Wikipedia. There was quite a few visits to Wikipedia in my native language too.
Fight Oligarchy tour, The Limits to Growth (haven't actually read it), quicksort, La Marseilles and Borzoi (is it worth it?).
- Lies of P
- List of games in Star Trek
- Mao (Card Game)
- Cotton-eyed Joe
- Psychopathology
- Myers-Briggs type indicator
(From most to least recent)
- Native Americans in the United States
- File Allocation Table
- Load (Album)
- Sentience
- Inverted Nipple
If you were able to see what IP addresses had visited a Wikipedia page, would you be able to take the lists here, assume a reasonable time period going back, and identify uniquely which addresses had visited all 5 (or more) pages listed by each commenter?
Lucky you can't, I guess?
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weregild
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion%27s_mane_jellyfish
In case you were wondering:
The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory monitors volcanic activity and does not consider an eruption imminent.
Interestingly, the buildup of magma causes the plateau to be uplifted by about 1 in. per year on average, which is one of the ways we monitor it. NASA studied how we could go about preventing an imminent eruption by cooling the magma, but another scientist said we could accidentally trigger it by trying. We may have to wait for something else for our next extinction event though. Yellowstone going off again soon would be a bit ahead of schedule.
Most of the other articles were just fleetingly topical to a conversation or book or something. Cymothoa exigua is interesting though. It's a fish parasite that severs the tongue of its host and effectively replaces it. I think I looked at it from another thread where people were posting their favorite deep sea animals.
The fact that oxygen may have shot up to modern levels really early on for a bit fascinates me in particular.
Chimera (genetics)
Monty Oum
Dodo: Extinct species of bird
Paul Lynde: American comedian and actor
The Plague Dogs (novel): 1977 novel by Richard Adams
Airbus A400M Atlas
Dennis Rader: American serial killer
Neville Goddard: Barbadian writer
Potentilla norvegica: Species of flowering plant
Orestes: Figure in Greek mythology
My browser history clears after every session.
I believe I last visited it to read the synopsis for the 2017 film The Ritual.
This thing for a DIY air filter because I saw it here yesterday or two days ago
Looks interesting, might have to try it.
I don't keep a browser history at all, but my most recent visit was to:
Fluid construction grammar
Unscented transform
Heteroglossia
Lorenz system
Relict (biology)
Yuezhi
I have in my Obsidian Daily Note a "Today's random data" and this has brings me the last five days:
I just checked out the article about the active volcano in Réunion Island, named Le Piton de la Fournaise. That's because I am staying there this month and hoping to catch some lava (not with my hands, duh. I will use a bucket).
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piton_de_la_Fournaise
From there I read about the Deccan Trapps, a large western part of the indian subcontinent that was pretty much formed by serial lava flows about 60MY ago. Then I was led to the article about LIPs (large igneous provinces), and I'm still falling down that rabbit hole as we speak. Fascinating stuff
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapps_du_Deccan
My desktop ones are probably different
My wife sent me Andrees Arctic Balloon Expedition. From there, the rabbit hole into Svalbard was self-inflicted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_problems_in_loop_theory_and_quasigroup_theory
And I'm pretty sure a bunch of other pages related to loops and quasigroups. I don't still have them open, though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_universe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Wind_Blows_(comics)
Nothing like a bit of bedtime existential dread.
plants family mostly the ones that evolved to lose thier chlorophyll (specific familys, and thier phyologeny) then search for research papers for in depths explanations.
French Leave
Clara Vestris Webster
Tiny Tiim
John William Polidori
The Fall of the Angels
I don't really like this list, because it's more sorted by the last tab I closed than the last tab I visited, which is not really the same.