Today I Learned

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what did you learn today?

ok i’m mind blown 🤯

@askgina.eth has somehow scanned all of the books from the photo of my mum’s shelf

and then give recommendations based on them

@sidshekhar & @ericjuta yall are cooking!!!!

TIL when you play any of the songs from the Star Wars soundtrack on Spotify, the progress bar turns into a light saber

TIL shopping cart theory

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

Did you know you can add dots anywhere in your gmail email address?

If your email is FirstLast@gmail.com, gmail automatically reserves First.Last@gmail.com and all other possible addresses with dots in them.

Til about the secret farscore cabal channel only accessible for the top 100 on the leaderboard where conversation is irrelevant but earnings are not. Average daily take for users are an eye watering 100,000 moxie.

Fan tokens for this channel are not available for purchase to those outside the top 100.

Having kids is cool because you get to learn things all over again, and see what you missed.

Today, we went to the natural science museum and learned there’s an entire set of animals/reptiles that came BEFORE the dinosaurs called Permian Monsters???

TIL pieter levels is 40 years old

Japanese ppl take their sunscreen very seriously. They carry it around on keychains and reapply constantly.

So on a recent visit, I bought up a bunch of different sunscreens to sample back home and immediately noticed how much better they were than any of the American stuff I’ve ever used.

Turns out it’s not just in my head.

TIL the term sankey, a /dataviz technique for showing flow, movement or change from one state to another. I've always loved seeing earnings reports visualized this way but never knew the term for it.

Not a coincidence my favorite class in college was a CE course about fluid mechanics and how I later became obsessed with DevOps and Lean.

such a based feature