Mildly Interesting

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The original was posted on /r/mildlyinteresting by /u/Alohagrown on 2025-05-15 23:52:55+00:00.

BrandMeister is a service which connects digital radio repeaters all over the world. Talk group 91 can be very international at times. I think it's mildly interesting to hear people across the planet connect.

The ALICE analysis shows that, during Run 2 of the LHC (2015–2018), about 86 billion gold nuclei were created at the four major experiments. In terms of mass, this corresponds to just 29 picograms (2.9 ×10-11 g). [...] While the dream of medieval alchemists has technically come true, their hopes of riches have once again been dashed.

I mean, we still can't turn a ring of lead into a ring of gold, but this is really neat.

May 8, 2025, Guangzhou! All the delivery guys sleep under the bridge!

Artist Peter Cook grew a tree into a chair in 8 years by using shaping methods that constricted the direction of branch growth to make it grow in the shape he wanted"

Not a weekend gardening project then 🌳

The documents were sent by the German embassy in Tokyo and arrived in Argentina on 20 June 1941 inside 83 diplomatic pouches aboard a Japanese steamship, according to information gathered by court officials.

They ended up in the Supreme Court that same year after they were confiscated by Argentine customs officials who had opened five pouches at random and found Nazi propaganda material inside.

They were rediscovered last week by workers who were intrigued by a number of wooden champagne crates they stumbled upon while moving archival material from the Supreme Court's basement.

The crates were quickly moved to a secure office in the building and court officials alerted the Buenos Aires Holocaust Museum to their existence and asked for its help in creating an inventory of all their contents.

"Instead of using actual spray cans, some artists are just cleaning dirt off of certain areas to make their masterpieces and they are calling it reverse graffiti"

https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/114491783906939652