TIL that White Castle, founded in 1921, predates McDonald's by nearly two decades, establishing itself as America's first fast-food hamburger chain. [source, comments]

Song of the day 🌑⏳: https://open.spotify.com/track/1PcorHXcbsQu0II44fnwAZ?si=c-uNYU_FTjWXphHbNgkUbw

"Refugees and migrants are being buried in unmarked graves across the European Union at a scale that is unprecedented outside of war.

The Guardian can reveal that at least 1,015 men, women and children who died at the borders of Europe in the past decade were buried before they were identified."

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"If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing." https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill

Song of the day 🛥👨🏾‍🎤: https://open.spotify.com/track/1rydhdFtKe2CRkiaVb7aGF?si=as2MmWz7QVSiREn8DUVIfg

TIL director Michel Gondry found Jim Carrey's emotional state after a breakup "so beautiful, so broken" that he asked him to stay that way for one year to fit his character in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [source, comments]

Warum grosse Konzerne wie Shell wieder auf Öl und Gas setzen https://www.watson.ch/!333724598

Song of the day 🦻📣: https://open.spotify.com/track/48OJGqiTSwiUmDwLpAlGZ6?si=IYLcEHBqQkyWb-V9Fz4gbw

Umweltminister Ölbert Rösti sagt, dass wir auf gutem Weg seien. Alles klar. https://www.srf.ch/news/international/umweltminister-in-dubai-albert-roesti-an-der-klimakonferenz-wir-machen-schon-einiges

TIL that in 2005 The Journal of Clinical Investigation published an article noscriptd "Tom Cruise is dangerous and irresponsible" because of "reckless" comments made by Cruise where he stated that psychiatry is a "quack" field and postpartum depression is pharmacologically untreatable. [source, comments]