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mattwagner<p>Sowohl in <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Hamburg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hamburg</span></a> als auch in <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Wien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wien</span></a> kann man am Stephansplatz in die U1 einsteigen. <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/funfact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>funfact</span></a></p>
GermanZero Hamburg<p><a href="https://climatejustice.global/tags/FunFact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FunFact</span></a> </p><p>"Psychologen beobachten übrigens einen erstaunlichen Effekt: Ihren eigenen Stimmungswechsel nehmen die Menschen selbst oft gar nicht wahr. In Umfragen geben die Leute an, dass sich ihre Meinung nicht geändert habe – selbst wenn es dieselben Befragten waren, die die lokale Verkehrswende zunächst mit Vehemenz ablehnten und erst später begrüßten."</p>
꧁ᐊ𰻞ᵕ̣̣̣̣̣̣́́♛ᵕ̣̣̣̣̣̣́́𰻞ᐅ꧂<p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/funfact" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>funfact</span></a> 🇯🇵 doesn&#39;t actually have syllables, but mora!<br />(which western linguists have failed to identify in any oðer language🙄)</p><p>Take ðe word 探偵, transcribed as &quot;tantē&quot;,<br />You&#39;d θink it has 2 syllables tan-tē, 1 wiθ a &quot;final consonant&quot; &amp; ðe oðer wiθ a &quot;long vowel&quot;,<br />But in kana it&#39;s たんてい(&quot;ta-N-te-i&quot;), clearly showing ðe &quot;long vowel&quot; is rly just a lazy pronunciation of a vowel sequence(real long vowels are indicated wiθ ðe chroneme ー) &amp; ðe /n/ is independent</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>japanese</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/%E7%90%B4%E8%91%89%E5%A7%89%E5%A6%B9" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>琴葉姉妹</span></a></p>
MKBHD Stats<p>In April, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://threads.net/@mkbhd/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mkbhd</span></a></span> published his <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nintendo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nintendo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Switch2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Switch2</span></a> Hands-On-Video, as well as three other videos with an average length of 12 minutes and 56 seconds, two of which had a sponsor segment. The top category this month was Smartphone Reviews, followed by Impressions/Hands-On and Health Tech.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MKBHDStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MKBHDStats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mkbhd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mkbhd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YouTube</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/funfact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>funfact</span></a></p>
Irritationshintergrund🍑<p>Der <a href="https://skeptics.social/tags/bestofEx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bestofEx</span></a> wird von der Rentenkasse drangsaliert. Er soll Nachweise liefern, was er vor über 25 Jahren in seinem Herkunftsland gemacht hat (<a href="https://skeptics.social/tags/funfact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>funfact</span></a> er war Schüler und Student). <br>Inwieweit das relevant ist, für seine deutsche Rente in 25 Jahren, konnte ihm die Sachbearbeiterin aber nicht sagen. <br>Die Resourcen, die man für die Bearbeitung verschwendet, wären woanders sicherlich besser investiert.<br>Aber was weiß ich schon..</p>
scy<p>Useless fun fact: "shots fired" sounds pretty similar to the German "Schatz feiert" ("darling celebrates").</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/FunFact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FunFact</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>German</span></a></p>
crkⓋ<p>Jodie Foster was offered the role of Princess Leia, but she refused because at the time she was under contract with Disney.<br>Isn't it ironic. Don't you think? <a href="https://layer8.space/tags/funfact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>funfact</span></a> <a href="https://layer8.space/tags/StarWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarWars</span></a></p>
crkⓋ<p>George Lucas, who missed out on the film rights to Flash Gordon, was contractually obliged NOT to do a film about the future.. hence the line "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.." <a href="https://layer8.space/tags/funfact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>funfact</span></a></p>
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crkⓋ

When Vincent Price performed a speaking part on Michael Jackson's 1983 single 'Thriller' he was offered a percentage cut of the song's revenue or a flat fee of $20,000. He took the latter and it's been estimated that he would have earned many millions on the percentage #funfact

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crkⓋ

There is no official minimum age for a pope. The youngest pope was Benedict IX who was 20 years old.
The college of cardinals who elect the pope however have to be under 80 years of age #funfact

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Matt Godden

@aaronsgiles #FunFact since #macOS Mojave, Quicklook hasn't been able to be configured to zoom images *up* (when you have its window fullscreened on a second display) to fill your screen, and will always display them at 1:1 if they're smaller.

If you ever want to write another viewer that can be fullscreened to one display, while leaving a file browser for sorting / moving images open on another...

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