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People adapt to getting an upgrade in life almost immediately. If you walked down the street and someone handed you $80 and the next guy $100, you'd be mad that he got more even th…

Leetcode interview questions will adapt to ask for the wrong answer. You'll have to write broken code to prove you can code better than the correct code AI can spit out.

Lanes in heavy snow covered roads are more of a suggestion. You can either drive on the bare 'wagon tracks' of road, or on the proper lane (that you can't even see) with 6-12 inche…

Trees follow a slow-fast-slow pattern for capturing carbon. Small new trees don't capture much. Middle-aged trees capture a lot as they grow. Old-growth trees don't capture as much…

These people spent 37 days in a 9ft dinghy in the ocean. A ladder rung, plus the rain water mixed with turtle guts from the bottom of the boat saved their lives. https://www.thegua…

It seems there's a battle between virus's, they don't like sharing resources and the 'strongest' wins. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56483445 Coronavirus: How the common cold can…

Fun fact, Voyager 1 - at 17km/s, isn't always moving away from Earth. Earth does 30km/s around the Sun, so at some points in it's orbit, Earth is catching up to Voyager 1.

I like scan, but the time is too short, and it skips before I can get it to play. Maybe a longer scan period - or just a 'random' button.

/r/listentothis is good for finding different genres, and usually a good song from that category as well.

Whenever I come across a picture of a location that looks cool, whether it be a castle/ruin/beach/city. I search Youtube for 'place name walking tour' and then filter by Long video…

Amazon is brutal, 1% defect rate. 1.75% gets you a 72 response window before they shut your account. So, 2 bad orders per 100 and your out of business. You basically live in fear o…

/r/buyitforlife

I've heard of this happening across Lake Erie, people in Canada said they could see the color of the traffic lights all the way across the lake in Erie PA.

This song captures that feeling well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8isMSg0Tpe4

Dumbwaiters make a resurgence, except now they hookup to the roof.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort I want to read one of these...

'Ghost kitchen': How a plain storefront hides more than a dozen delivery restaurants Business model is gaining popularity as food delivery apps gain a foothold in Canada https://ww…

Another resource for finding footpaths/routes is https://www.strava.com/heatmap They've aggregated tons of bike and running routes so you can see where other people have ran/biked …

It was my understanding that fission and fusion both use the same Nuclear Power Plant sized facility. Fusion just replaces the radioactive bit, you still need steam/electricity con…

Smells like garlic, at 20 parts per billion, in 80-90% sulfuric acid... Probably not much smelling going in.

Hardware solution: $1 plastic cutting board

Each with and incendiary charge and the GPS coordinates of every home/building in a city. Who needs Tokyo/Dresden firebombing anymore.

> While the lab results look promising, experts in the field advise caution because important work has not been done to test the compound in animals. “The critical thing is animal …

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/dispa... I was running while listening... The US president negotiating the terms of Germany's WW1 surrender/repayments was tr…

When you fire a tazer, along with the wires a bunch of confetti sprays out as well. The confetti has id numbers on it that can be traced back to who purchased it.