Today I Learned

03-06-17

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that Elon Musk, in his early days, once flew to South East Asia and “practiced poverty” by living on $1 a day – eating nothing but oranges, hot dogs, and pasta
that Norway once knighted a penguin

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that Kodak had digital camera in 1977 but failed to improvise it
that my all-time favorite movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was filmed in an actual mental hospital and many of the extras were actual patients
that pornhub.com, redtube.com, youporn.com etc., basically the top adult video websites, are all owned by a company called MindGeek
that a falling bullet (that you shot into the air) reaches terminal velocity at 90m/s, more than enough (60m/s) to be fatal to humans

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that Chrome supports a webkitdirectory attribute in input[file], which allos selecting directories instead of files

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Money is not the root of all evil. Rather, it’s the love of money.

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that there’s a reason why “tock-tick” or “dong-ding” or “Kong King” doesn’t sound right to our ears – there’s an unwritten rule in English that if there are three words then the order has to go I, A, O; and if there are two then it must I, A or I, O. Mish-mash, chit-chat, dilly-daily, tip-top, hip-hop, flip-flop etc.

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that in 2007 Glasgow Airport attack, a baggage-handler who was out for a cigarette ran towards a terrorist, shouted “Fucking ‘mon then” and kicked him so hard in the balls that he broke his foot

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of these two sentences which I find quite amusing: “I trust that Trump will go into our nation’s history books with records for many things. Hopefully, number one will be the fastest anyone has ever been impeached.”
of the ²⁰⁄₈₀ rule: You gain 80% of a skill in the first 20% of the time invested, and the rest 20% of the skill takes the remaining 80% of your practice

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that there’s actually a LOT of people who dislike Redux
that Neil Amstrong refused to swear on the Bible that he actually did go to the moon
that the lowland gorilla’s scientific name is “gorilla gorilla gorilla.”

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that Michael Jackson once tried to buy Marvel so he could play Spider Man in the movies
of the strange mystery of the man from Taured
of curvature continuity, or why Apple’s icons have that shape
that Marvel’s Mantis, a former Avenger, is half-Vietnamese and was born in Huế, Vietnam