TIL about Wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic worldview of accepting the simple, imperfect, and transient things in the world. Similar to kintsugi (repairing broken pottery with golden paste), it's abou ( en.wikipedia.org )
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1dplrt0/til_bill_gates_was_already_the_worlds_richest_man/...
A nice well-rounded article, gets right to the point
One of the only marine organisms I find truly terrifying
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1dp16af/til_that_the_plumber_wrench_and_the_adjustable/...
Learned about this on West Virginia radio. Gonna have to visit ASAP.
"an exceptional tide peak that occurs periodically in the northern Adriatic Sea. The term is applied to such tides in the Italian region of Veneto. The peaks reach their maximum in the Venetian Lagoon, where they cause partial flooding of Venice and Chioggia"
Lithuanian book smugglers or Lithuanian book carriers (Lithuanian: knygnešiaĩ, singular: knygnešys) smuggled Lithuanian language books printed in the Latin alphabet into Lithuanian-speaking areas of the Russian Empire, defying a ban on such materials in force from 1864 to 1904. In Lithuanian knygnešys literally means "the...
Happy anniversary y'all.