Today I Learned

26-06-17

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of JSFuck, and that []["filter"]["constructor"]("return this")() return the window object in JavaScript

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that Jon Skinner, the sole author of Sublime Text, left his job as a software engineer at Google to pursue his dream of creating a better editor (and he did it so fine)

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of place-items, the short-hand property to set both align-items and justify-items in a flex box model
of Unit 731, a Japanese “research” unit in occupied China during 1935–1945 that was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes committed by Japan
of MailHog, a web and API-based SMTP testing tool

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that Vladimir Pokhilko, co-creator of Tetris, murdered his whole family after suffering financial difficulties at his software company

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that if you fold a piece of paper 50 times, its thickness will be ³⁄₄ the distance from the Earth to the Sun, and at 100 folds it will have the radius of the whole universe
that Apple makes new employees work on fake projects until they can be trusted

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of the FORD technique to make conversations – talk about Family, Occupation, Recreation, and Dreams

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how to properly test traits and abstract classes with PHPUnit
of galactic years, and that our sun is about 20 years old and will die at 54
that “between the eyes” is actually the hardest part of the skull, and in real life you wouldn’t shoot someone between the eyes if you really mean to 100% kill them

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that the English word cereal is derived from “Ceres,” the Roman goddess of harvest and agriculture
that there’s no such a thing as “World War II” in Britain – British always refer to it as “The Second World War”

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that my OSS project Koel has a Scrunitizer code quality of 9.26 (very good), and I’m quite proud of it
of permanent shadows, or “nuclear shadows,” “shadows” formed by atom bomb explosions such as those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, such as this one
that “biceps” is actually a singular word, the plural form of which is “bicipites”
that a woman named Teri Horton once bought a painting by Jackson Pollock for $5. After learning who he is, she managed to sell the painting for $50 million.