TIL that the Bitwarden extension can generate SSH keys
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TIL about 1 million liters of urine is spilled onto the bathroom floor every day in the U.S.
#TIL 十月一日是烏克蘭保衛者日，為紀念退伍軍人和陣亡將士而設。全國每年於基輔時間上午九時默哀一分鐘。
https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/zvernennya-prezidenta-volodimira-zelenskogo-z-nagodi-dnya-za-85993
TIL to add two spaces behind a line to write multi line comments on lemmy without whitespaces between them.
Today I learned that the fediverse platform Honk can import posts from a Mastodon, Twitter, or Instagram archive and backdate them appropriately. That's honkin' terrific!
#TIL 原来英语里的风筝Kite是一种鸟（鹞）的名字，因为这种鸟经常在天上悬浮等待，所以才被用来当作风筝的名字。
TIL that in Victorian London mail delivery routes would go by every house 12 times a day.
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TIL about Silphium, aka laser, a plant that was used as a panacea in antiquity and the first species in recorded history to go extinct
#TIL 在麻省理工学院，如果你完成了手枪、射箭、航海和击剑课程，就可以被认证为海盗。
因为太不可思议去搜了一下，结果是真的……是针对本科学生的PE课的娱乐性质的certificate.
The MIT Pirate Certificate became available in the Fall of 2011. Students who have completed Archery, Fencing, Pistol (Air Pistol or Rifle) and Sailing should send an email to ahoymitpe @ mit.edu with name and MIT ID number once grades are posted for all four courses.
https://physicaleducationandwellness.mit.edu/about/pirate-certificate/
#TIL The city of Burlingame is named after the US minister to China and the treaty of Burlingame started Chinese immigration to the US.
TIL it’s the right of women of all ages to go topless wherever men can in the states of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas and Oklahoma, including all their cities.
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#TIL Weibo's custom emoji shortcodes are in square brackets 🤔 https://emojipedia.org/sina-weibo
TIL Vesta Stoudt, an Illinois mom working in a WWII munitions plant, invented duct tape
https://www.jnj.com/our-heritage/vesta-stoudt-the-woman-who-invented-duct-tape#:~:text=The%20iconic%20tape%20was%20invented,Ordnance%20Plant%20near%20Amboy%2C%20Illinois.
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ev6p5y/til_vesta_stoudt_an_illinois_mom_working_in_a/
No sé si conocíais esto, pero yo hoy he descubierto que existe una fundación, llamada Anisfield-Wolf, que desde 1935 concede un premio anual en Estados Unidos a libros de ficción, poesía y no ficción que contribuyan a la comprensión del racismo y a la defensa de la diversidad humana.
Su lista de premiados es una buena lista de recomendaciones de lectura, os la dejo por aquí 🥰
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#TIL Baba is You is Turing-complete.
https://terra-docs.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/IJHSR/Articles/volume5-issue7/IJHSR_2023_57_140.pdf
繁体的「门」字——「門」，是可以拆开成两部分的「𠁣」和「𠃛」 ，拟声词，只在闽南语中有读音（ihⁿ和oa̍ihⁿ），意思是门开合时的吱呀声
https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%F0%A0%81%A3%F0%A0%83%9B#%E6%BC%A2%E8%AA%9E
乒乓一隻舟，𰛄𰛅水中流。𠁣𠃛搖船櫓，彳亍到揚州。——《澎湖褒歌》
拎起拳來，或上或下，𠁣𠁣𠃛𠃛，一氣打有一二十拳。——《封神演義·第十三回》
（这些字可能在某些操作系统及apps中无法正常显示）
#TIL `JSON.parse` has a second parameter to accept a reviver.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/JSON/parse#reviver
Why isn't there a library to generate revivers based on a given schema? The closest to what I am expecting is https://github.com/badcafe/jsonizer and it doesn't seem to get a lot traffic. Nobody likes type-safe JSON parsing?
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TIL in the 1980s, a woman bought a ring at a car boot sale for £10 & proceeded to wear it regularly under the assumption it was a piece of costume jewelry. It later appraised and sold for £650k.
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#TIL 原来“一”虽然是一声，但是在某些情况下会变其他声调，比如“在一起”，“人的一生”。
> （「一」字單用或在一詞一句的末尾，念陰平聲；在去聲字前，念陽平聲；在陰平、陽平、上聲之前，念去聲。)
https://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw/dictView.jsp?ID=10504&la=0&powerMode=0