James Hemings, brother to Sally Hemings was the first American to train as a chef in France. He was enslaved by Thomas Jefferson at 8. The Chef de cuisine is the reason macaroni and cheese made it to America. A THREAD!

This typewriter AEG Mignon n. 4 was built in 1925. It's a very compact pointer typewriter with interchangeable type cylinder and keyboard: more than 36 different fonts were available [full video by grvene: buff.ly/2QEaCsO]

The story of Werner Forssmann, the man who put himself under local anesthesia and inserted a catheter into a vein of his arm and up into his heart without knowing the consequences. He devised the cardiac catheterization and won the Nobel Prize [read more: buff.ly/3qVzaf3]

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Learned today from Mastodon historian @[email protected] of Germany’s 17th Century common knowledge that the people of Limerick included man-eating ManCamels, one of which was touring Germany after being captured by William III. Makes a change from pigs, I suppose.

"The problem of archiving digital creations is hard enough, but thanks to copyright, it’s often impossible. So much for copyright supporting creativity…" - Glyn Moody walledculture.org/digital-books-… #WalledCulture #CulturalHeritage #eBooks #copyright

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Karlin Lillington 🦇 explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php…

Huge concern for potential job losses English National Opera (Chorus, orch, backstage) but also an enormous impact on the freelance opera community. Freelancers are used to vicissitudes, but the earthquake that closure of a major opera house would cause would be unsurvivable for some.