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!
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 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
Il existe de l'alcool d'olive.
(le nom du produit / de la marque qui le commercialise est vraiment nul)
#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/
原来“正能量”（“无论你怎么感受的总之你得表现得阳光开朗乐观”的意思）在英语里对应的词汇是：
toxic positivity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_positivity
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#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 Baba is You is Turing-complete.
https://terra-docs.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/IJHSR/Articles/volume5-issue7/IJHSR_2023_57_140.pdf
#TIL Linux 「慢性窗口管理器新奇然缺乏症」 (Chronic Window Manager Novelty Deficiency Syndrome)。
每日一个无用小知识之今日惊掉我下巴的 #til ：
北极熊的皮肤是黑的！完全的黑色。要是把北极熊剃光的话，看到的就是一只……黑熊。
它的毛发也不是白色而是半透明的，肉眼看着是白色只是因为光反射。
读绘本读到的我还不信又上网搜了下发现居然真的是这样。我一定不是最后一个知道的！
https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/fascinating-facts/polar-bears
https://www.reddit.com/r/badassanimals/comments/e4t0u2/the_polar_bears_stark_white_coat_provides/
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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）