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TIL that Benkos Bioho, an African king that was captured and taken to South America, helped create a way to use braids to convey maps and messages. This stopped his captors from finding out his and his peers’ plans. Some braids represented escape and certain roads while others held gold and seeds.

by whatilearned January 25, 2022, 1:43 am

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Flutter Showing Messages and Alerts with Flash

by ProgrammerDude November 16, 2021, 12:33 pm

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TIL that a man sued Warner Bros after he was injured while fainting during a screening of The Exorcist. He claimed that the film contained subliminal messages that caused his fainting spell. When he lost consciousness, his face hit one of the seats, breaking his jaw. They settled out of court.

by whatilearned November 7, 2021, 11:35 pm

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TIL the RMS Carpathia received the Titanic’s distress call by accident. Harold Cottam, the telegraphist had finished for the day and was using the transmitter to “take some general news”. He picked up messages for the Titanic and to help made contact. The reply: “We have struck ice, come at once.”

by whatilearned November 5, 2021, 8:29 pm

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I stumbled upon this in a girl’s saved messages

by CopyPastaArchive November 4, 2021, 2:59 am

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People who only respond to the last question in a text…. what goes through your mind about the other messages that you’re ignoring ?

by QuestionGuy October 30, 2021, 6:49 pm

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TIL President Diouf began an anti-AIDS program in Senegal, before the virus was able to take off. He used media and schools to promote safe-sex messages and required prostitutes to be registered. While AIDS was decimating much of Africa, the infection rate for Senegal stayed below 2 percent

by whatilearned October 25, 2021, 8:31 pm

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❗️❗️Pressed leave chat with someone,now he closed his chat option so I can not open the chatbox with him and see our old messages?

by ProgrammerDude October 16, 2021, 3:48 pm

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volder is a powerful JavaScript schema builder for value parsing and validation. Define a schema and validate values, volder schema are extremely simple to use, it has custom error messages, custom types, nested schemas.

by ProgrammerDude October 15, 2021, 11:29 am

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TIL that Dr. Zhivago was rejected for publication within the USSR for its anti-soviet messages and was secretly translated and published in Italy. The book became world famous and the CIA helped with its popularisation, which led to Pasternak winning the Nobel in 1958 which he was forced to refuse.

by whatilearned October 3, 2021, 3:13 pm

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TIL Nokia 1100 phone, originally sold for under $100, reached the price of over $32,000 in 2009 as criminals discovered that it can receive SMS messages for another phone number, thus allowing to intercept sensitive information like one-time passwords for online banking

by whatilearned September 30, 2021, 12:26 am

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Do Developers Read Compiler Error Messages?

by ProgrammerDude September 21, 2021, 2:57 am

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