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#TIL that a “garth” is an enclosed garden, usually in a cloister. So, that’s what I’m calling my desktop app - because it’s your data from all the evil social networks “protected” but then allows you to “garden” it and do stuff with it! I registered domain names and everything… which means I’ll NEVER EVER build it now, but finding the word was fun.
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#TIL: The National Senior Games are in Tulsa next summer. You only have to be 50 to participate. The Georgia games to qualify are in September, and I've already convinced my coffee guys (I think) to sign up. We need to pick a sport that we think we can dominate in - so far, bocce is in the lead, mostly so our team name can be Get Your Balls Out.
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#TIL the NHL is older (1917) than both the NFL (1920) and the NBA (1946). The NHL is even older than that but only had two teams and I didn’t keep reading to understand how that worked. Maybe I’ll look that up tomorrow when I should be brushing my teeth.
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Boosted Dr Lindsey Fitzharris (@[email protected])
This is a carbonized loaf of bread from Pompeii, 79 C.E. - preserved for thousands of years in the volcanic ashes of Mount Vesuvius. The baker left his stamp, which reads: “Celer, slave of Quintus Granius Verus." Celer is known to have survived the eruption, as his name later appears on a list of "freed men." Most bread at the time was baked in community ovens, so customized stamps were used to mark individual families’ and bakeries’ loaves.
