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Vadim Drobinin | Things I Learnt in 2023

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I'm a bit of an infoholic. I get my fix from all over - Twitter, RSS feeds, Telegram channels, random blogs - if it's putting out knowledge, I'm taking it in. I skim through a metric ton of articles every week, but only the real mind-blowing ones make it into my "must-read" pile. The best of these knowledge goldmines end up in my weekly (and occasionally free) newsletter, Tuesday Triage. Mixed in with some personal stories and ramblings about my latest read book or food craze, I highlight the most fascinating tidbits and compelling facts I absorbed over the past seven days. In this article, I filtered out my top favorite nuggets of pure "whoa" from the past year of curating content. Here's a countdown of the most surprising, hilarious, and just plain weird things I learned, straight from the annals of Tuesday Triage: Right, so this wild story is an example of why I love linguistics so much. Multiocular O is a rare glyph variant of the Cyrillic letter O. In the XV century some Russian m

Things I Learnt in 2023 For almost four years I have been sending out a weekly newsletter with things I learnt and read during the week. Some of those trivia are not trivial at all, so I decided to share the condensed crème de la crème of the Internet in this New Year special edition. 13 Jan 2024 · Yearly Review See also: things I learnt in 2020 (and its HN discussion ) things I learnt in 2021 (and its HN discussion ) I am pretty much a knowledge addict. I use Twitter, RSS, and numerous other mediums of information — from Telegram channels to standalone blogs. Out of a thousand articles

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