Today I Learned

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This is a first line This is a second line This is the third line.

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These all appear on the same line eventhough I wrote them on separate lines

If I add a "enter" after each line, they'll appear on separate lines, but have white spaces in between.

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This is the first line

This is the second line

This is the third line.

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Now I only add two spaces behind each line and they'll appear just as I wrote them

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This is the first line.
This is the second line.
This is the third line.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Remiliera on 2025-04-26 11:15:07+00:00.

Another favorite pastime was digging a tunnel under his home; he attributed the secret of his success to "visits by elves" while he worked in the tunnel: "While I'm digging in the tunnel, the elves will often come to me with solutions to my problem."

Wikipedia cited a rather entertaining Time article as a citation for this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Morita#Early_life

at Easter lunch somehow this topic came up. I had no idea it was squirrels making that noise. I thought it was birds

cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/5698422

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/darwin-rover on 2025-04-20 12:48:16+00:00.

A page from The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Ripley

I guess it's not exactly surprising, but it seems to explain a lot of things I'm witnessing in my later adulthood. I've always felt deeply impressed by selfless heroes, but I never really pondered the profile of heroism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy

I also learned that Desi Arnaz chooses Rubber-Top!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatti_di_Rovereta

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BedZestyclose3727 on 2025-04-18 08:08:57+00:00.

There have been several high-profile cases of deportation of Korean adoptees from the United States. Prior to the passage of the Child Citizenship Act of 2000, the adoptive parents of adoptees had to file for their child to naturalize before the age of 16. Many parents were unaware of this requirement, assuming that their adopted children automatically derived citizenship from them, and therefore did not apply. The Child Citizenship Act sought to remedy this issue by extending citizenship to all international adoptees who were under 18 at the time that the bill was passed, but did not apply retroactively. This left those adopted by American families prior to 1983 vulnerable to deportations.

From the 1950s through 1991, a plurality of international adoptees came from South Korea. Koreans are the largest group of adoptees in the U.S. It has been estimated that as many as 20% of adult Korean adoptees are at risk of deportation. Many of the vulnerable adoptees suffered from a lack of access to other resources American citizens have.

If deported, they also face major challenges adjusting to live in South Korea. If they have no known family or relations in their birth country and do not speak the language, as is often the case, it is incredibly difficult for them to meet their basic needs such as housing and employment. These factors contributed to the 2017 suicide of Philip Clay, a Korean adoptee who was deported.

The exact number of deported Korean adoptees is unknown and difficult to ascertain, but there are at least half a dozen known cases.

Very sad stories.

Even though I'm a Citizen and am not facing deportation issues (not yet, anyways 👀), I kinda feel what they went through.

I was born in Mainland China (PRC) and I immigrated to the US as a kid. As I grew up, I grew attachment to the principles of constitution: democracy, freedom, human rights. I'm more American than those far-right "patriots".

I had a small fight in highschool, it was self-defence btw, and the instigator probably movitivated by the hatred against Asian people during the height of the Covid pandemic (it was mere weeks before schools closed), so I got beaten by this fucking bully, then got arrested and faced false accusations of "assault with a deadly weapon" 🙄 (I was unarmed bro, wtf, ACAB). Charges got dropped. But that could've been trouble for me since USCIS still can see any charges even if dropped, and can make immigration decisions based on that. But luckily, the the law now is that children with Legal Permanent Resident status under 18 are automatically citizen if one of their parents become a citizen, and since my mom is a citizen, I'm fine.

Like, can you imagine the other timeline where I get deported for a fucking school fight? (again, don't jinx it ahem project 2025 ahem 👀)

I mean, if I had to go back to China, re-learning Mandarin and that difficult Chinese writing system is gonna make me kms. (Not to mention, it'd be harder to find foreign entertainment due to CCP censorship)

Me and CCP aren't exactly best-buds, I'd probably get jailed the moment I step foot in China for all the bad things I said about CCP.

(But probably don't need to worry about, now that we got CECOT instead 😖)

I feel SO dumb right now 😭

I was watching a counterstrike video (I don't play CS) and the youtuber said "...who is one of the best North America players..." while a statistics page showed kill/death, win/loss, etc. But it also showed "NA". This along with the verbal "North America" was enough for the very lazy neurons in my brain finally make a basic connection that those two things are connected. I always assumed it just meant "somewhere we don't have an abbreviation for" or "location private" or something.

The essay was on arc-welding. The plates were 1 foot by 2 foot and written with a welding torch.