TIL
- that, at least in the US, if you own a daycare you have to go through yearly training to renew the license, including how to spot a child abuse
- of The Kiss of Judas, a photo showing a bull running up to his breeder hoping he would save him, only to receive a hypocritical kiss and be sent back to his death
TIL
- of one of Sherlock Holmes’s sayings: “Alone is what I have. Alone protects me.”
TIL
- that if Taylor Otwell is hit by a bus, Jeffrey Way (of Laracasts) will take over Laravel
- about Cunningham’s Law: The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer
TIL
- of Space Booze, massive (1000x the size of our solar system) clouds of alcohol floating around in our universe. A space booze has enough beer to let every human on earth drink 300,000 pint of beer for almost a billion years.
- that there are planets made of pure diamonds
- that a Venus year is shorter than a Venus day
- that cancer is not a desease, but rather the name for a group of different ones that have one thing in common: uncontrolled cell growth
TIL
- that Basecamp open-sourced their employee handbook
- to use
async / await
- that to turn an object into an array,
[].concat(obj) is significantly slower than obj == null ? [] : (Array.isArray(obj) ? obj : [obj])
- that Spotify users have made over 35 million playlists with emojis in their titles
TIL
- “butt” is a valid SVG stroke-linecap value (credits @dan_abramov)
- that black coders are more likely to get a job offer but for less money
- that Hoàng Việt loved Phạm Duy’s Tình Ca so much that he decided to name one of his songs exactly the same
TIL
- that reindeers can see UV light
- that there’s a version of The Tortoise and the Hare where everyone dies in a forest fire because the tortoise, having won the race and therefore seen as the fastest, is given the job of warning everyone
- that you can make a (proven) home pregnancy test with toothpaste
TIL
- of
tap, one of Taylor Otwell’s favorite Laravel helpers
- again, that you can use
unicode-range to combine fonts in CSS
- that the arguably best anagram in English is cinematographer/megachiropteran
TIL
- that HTTP response codes can be basically summed up as:
1**: Hold on
2**: Here you go
3**: Go away
4**: You fucked up
5**: I fucked up
Not really something new, but still interesting.