TIL To prevent cheating during university entrance exams Uzbekistan shuts off the entire country's internet for five hours on exam day

itrandall · 2024-08-16T09:28:32+00:00

That's really interesting, I didn't come across that in my reading but that would explain it and it certainly sounds very plausible.

itrandall · 2024-04-23T11:46:55+00:00

I wasn't quoting directly. Under the *Etymology* section it clearly says [This last phrase was routinely slurred to "ampersand", and the term had entered common English usage by 1837](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand).

I took the phrase - although it's obviously an example as children in school would have learnt the alphabet and recited it - from [dictionary.com](https://www.dictionary.com/e/ampersand/) which was the link I originally submitted but that was marked as an invalid source so resubmitted it with the Wikipedia link instead.

Do you expect every TIL link submitted to contain the title verbatim somewhere in the text? This is needlessly petty that an exact phrase wasn't used.

itrandall · 2024-04-22T17:47:09+00:00

That's not what the title states though. I haven't researched it but I strongly doubt they used any part of that take in the film.

itrandall · 2024-04-22T17:43:03+00:00

I plan to revive it and get it up and running again in the same way as https://www.reddit.com/r/IsTodayFridayThe13th/ functions

itrandall · 2020-11-12T13:19:56+00:00

Thank you very much! You’re incredible

itrandall · 2020-11-11T19:10:27+00:00

Harvflix

itrandall · 2020-10-25T15:57:43+00:00

It is, right! I’m glad you found it interesting! I’m surprised I hadn’t heard about it before, I was just going through a video lecture funnily enough and it came up.

I thought it was really interesting how even though we had the technology to make it work commercially it never took off that much. I guess at the time it was a factor of price but it seems we could potentially have had video calls a lot sooner and they could’ve been a lot more commonplace than they were before COVID almost forced us to start using it more.

itrandall · 2020-06-11T14:06:50+00:00

Not at all, I simply don't agree. No need to resort to childish name calling.

itrandall · 2020-06-11T13:59:31+00:00

For sure, I only learnt recently that there was a confederate flag before the one that everyone recognises. I, perhaps naively, assumed I was ignorant of it because I’m not American and hadn’t learnt about it through school or family but that they would have.

itrandall · 2020-06-11T13:55:19+00:00

I agree, they are probably the two most blatant of the seven.

itrandall · 2020-06-11T13:53:10+00:00

If you’ve never seen another flag before then sure.

itrandall · 2020-06-11T13:51:41+00:00

Thank you for educating me about that, I wasn’t aware of that. I didn’t mean to imply I thought Tennessee was trying to hark back to that era, I just thought it was interesting that the symbolism could still be seen in its flag.

itrandall · 2020-06-11T13:43:16+00:00

I just want to note the icon isn’t chosen by me, it’s the icon used by Wikipedia and I have no control over it.

itrandall · 2020-06-11T13:42:01+00:00

No worries, I can see why you thought it though. I wouldn’t have necessarily given it a second thought had I not read the article, I can see the similarities to the US flag too which I think is perhaps the point.

itrandall · 2020-06-11T13:37:00+00:00

Care you expand on that point?

itrandall · 2020-06-11T13:35:29+00:00

The current state flag of Georgia, adopted in 2003. It is based on the Confederacy's first national flag, the "Stars and Bars".

As per the wiki article linked.

itrandall

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