Today I learned

Stolen from /u/UralIveGotTonight from Reddit, but it's a real TIL for me.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1249965

Guide: One way you can take advantage of federation is by opening a different instance, like ds9.lemmy.ml, and browsing it. If you see an interesting community, post or user that you want to interact with, just copy its URL and paste it into the search of your own instance. Your instance will connect to the other one (assuming the allowlist/blocklist allows it), and directly display the remote content to you, so that you can follow a community or comment on a post. Here are some examples of working searches:

- [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) (Community)
- @[email protected] (User)
- https://lemmy.ml/c/programming (Community)  
- https://lemmy.ml/u/nutomic (User)
- https://lemmy.ml/post/123 (Post)
- https://lemmy.ml/comment/321 (Comment)

You can see the list of linked instances by following the "Instances" link at the bottom of any Lemmy page.

In spite of the modest success of the show in the United States, the show was a massive hit in Mexico, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Argentina, where it is recognized as one of the most famous Hanna Barbera characters ever, being as popular as The Flintstones.

Besides Top Cat, all the other characters from the show were famous, and their popularity is commonly attributed by the excellent dubbing and voice acting

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

His wife stood by him, even after he was discovered.

So glad to see this. Always found it helpful. Great job

The pilot turned on the autopilot before handing the controls to his son, expecting that it would keep him from doing anything stupid. However, the son accidentally disengaged the autopilot.

We've all seen this image of a blobfish, hyperbolically labeled by the internet as the 'Ugliest Being on the Planet'. Well, that's just a terrible photo. What you're really seeing is the dead body of a species of blobfish, that died from horrific barotrauma. These fish live in the deep DEEP ocean layers and are occasionally accidentally fished up to the surface. The process of rapidly ascending causes them to undergo the bends and the pressure change destroys their body. In reality he probably looked more like this and while still a face only a mother could love, is not nearly the grotesque flesh mass we've all seen in news articles

Smithsonian Article