Today I Learned

Today I Learned

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TIL The 9-minute snooze time on most alarm clocks, including those on iPhones, is a holdover from the days of mechanical clocks. When the snooze function was first added to alarm clocks, it was difficult to adjust the gears to allow for a precise 10-minute snooze. Therefore, manufacturers opted for a 9-minute interval, as it was easier to implement and avoided potential issues with the clock's timing mechanism. While some theories suggest a physiological reason, such as avoiding a deeper sleep cycle, the primary reason is technical.

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Today I learned about this very dangerous way of saving data on a completely broken hard disk 🥶

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TIL the importance of intuition and how it’s necessary for solving complex problems and even navigating through life.

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TIL when you play any of the songs from the Star Wars soundtrack on Spotify, the progress bar turns into a light saber

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Did you know you can add dots anywhere in your gmail email address? If your email is [email protected], gmail automatically reserves [email protected] and all other possible addresses with dots in them.

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Having kids is cool because you get to learn things all over again, and see what you missed. Today, we went to the natural science museum and learned there’s an entire set of animals/reptiles that came BEFORE the dinosaurs called Permian Monsters???

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TIL pieter levels is 40 years old

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Japanese ppl take their sunscreen very seriously. They carry it around on keychains and reapply constantly. So on a recent visit, I bought up a bunch of different sunscreens to sample back home and immediately noticed how much better they were than any of the American stuff I’ve ever used. Turns out it’s not just in my head.

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TIL the term sankey, a /dataviz technique for showing flow, movement or change from one state to another. I've always loved seeing earnings reports visualized this way but never knew the term for it. Not a coincidence my favorite class in college was a CE course about fluid mechanics and how I later became obsessed with DevOps and Lean.

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