#TIL: many common #Unix / #Linux shells use $_ as shorthand for "last parameter/argument to previously executed command" (eg, in zsh, equivalent to !!:$) Knowing that would have saved me quite a lot of time, better late than never! (also: story of being a CLI user…the rabbit hole /always/ goes […]
#TIL 77% of people preferred instant coffee over drip in a blind taste test
#TIL Only one NFL player has died on the field: Chuck Hughes in 1971. The game continued with a silent crowd
#TIL for USA drivers, there is a site to check a vehicle license plate for flock detection https://haveibeenflocked.com
#TIL Medieval chronicler Giovanni Villani, famous for pioneering the inclusion of data in his history writing, was able to calculate the population of his native Florence in 1338 based on each household's daily consuption of grain
#TIL that after a widow visited an underground station daily just to hear her late husband’s voice announce "Mind the Gap," the transport authority digitized his original recording so it would play permanently at her local stop.
#TIL that Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus has been appointed as the type specimen for Homo Sapiens. In simple terms, when scientists ask "is this a human?", they are asking "is this specimen the same species as Carl?"