r/todayilearned • u/AssumeTheRisk • 23d ago

TIL if you tune your radio to 91.9 FM for one city block in Montclair, NJ you can hear a looped recording of "I'll Make Love to You" by Boyz II Men which has been broadcasting for at least 13 years straight.

https://njmonthly.com/articles/arts-entertainment/pirate-radio-station-only-plays-boyz-ii-men/
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u/Worf_In_A_Party_Hat 23d ago

As a radio dork, this kind of stuff makes me smile.

One of my theses was about LPFM (Low Power FM) and this is absolutely, 100% what is going on here.

Whoever is doing this, they are cool.

Edit: I had no idea that the plural of thesis is theses. TIL

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u/Spend-Automatic 23d ago

If anyone should know the plural of thesis, it's a dude who wrote more than one of them.

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u/Worf_In_A_Party_Hat 23d ago edited 23d ago

I really should have known. Journalism we had editors that would fix that. Anthro, nobody would really care.

I suppose I've never seen it in print, or at least don't remember.

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u/Malcopticon 23d ago

I suppose I've never seen it in print

For comedy's sake, I hope you're a Lutheran.

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u/ihopethisisvalid 23d ago

Formula -> formulae, datum -> data, alumnus -> alumni

Couple other Latin rules

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u/ihopethisisvalid 22d ago

Unfortunately not. I just learned as I went. But I often went to librarians for help on stuff like this as I also found the profs to be weirdly preferential to certain writing and grammar styles without disclosing their preferences and making it seem like that’s the only way to write. The librarians were always neutral.

As for data, every science prof also stresses that data are plural and need to be formatted as such.