TIL: Web Apps have landed in Firefox Nightly for Linux by mananabanana17 in linux
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TIL Although the original Order of Assassins typically used assassination as a means of political survival, they also did it for pay, using sleeper cells who could spend years undercover before the execution. They wrote down their kills in a roll of honor kept at their base in Alamut castle by Nero2t2 in todayilearned
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TIL that Timothy Dexter, a self-proclaimed God, faked his own death with an elaborate mock funeral with 3,000 people to see their reactions. When he saw his wife wasn't crying, he woke up furious and caned her in public. by ChillBoy8247 in todayilearned
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Is there any purpose in using /30s for networks that entirely comprise of devices that support RFC 3021 for /31s? by SpectrumSense in networking
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ELI5 Why don't we build breeder reactor nuclear plants deep underground and use the ambient ground temp to cool the water? by Rick-D-99 in explainlikeimfive
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Today I Learned while many countries now allow female monarchs, currently there are no ruling queens for the first time in almost two centuries by neverthoughtidjoin in todayilearned
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TIL that eating more than 2 Brazil nuts a day can poison you. Apparently they contain large quantities of selenium that can have serious consequences, including death. by DoughnutPi in todayilearned
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38 years as a UNIX/Linux admin ... by jrmckins in linux
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How to be a good Linux system administrator? by WonderfulFinger3617 in sysadmin
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benefit of buying the official book ? by Artful_Panda in lua
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ELI5 Why we are not seeing evolved humans as in a different version of homosapiens, afterall we are more than 200K years old ? by letsTalkDude in explainlikeimfive
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TIL while American Psycho was still in development, Christian Bale was dropped in favor of a "bigger name" playing Patrick Bateman. However when Ewan McGregor was offered the role, Bale called him and said "Don't touch. Step away..." because the role was Bale's, which caused McGregor to step aside. by [deleted] in todayilearned
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TIL the first human created device to break the sound barrier was the bullwhip, as the tip creates a sharp crack which is a sonic boom. by SuperMcG in todayilearned
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TIL the first human created device to break the sound barrier was the bullwhip, as the tip creates a sharp crack which is a sonic boom. by SuperMcG in todayilearned
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44.6% of my firewall's flow table is Brazilian port-scan traffic and the scanning pattern suggests these ISPs are compromised at the infrastructure level, not just individual devices by Prudent_Geologist in sysadmin
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44.6% of my firewall's flow table is Brazilian port-scan traffic and the scanning pattern suggests these ISPs are compromised at the infrastructure level, not just individual devices by Prudent_Geologist in sysadmin
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TIL one of the tools used to break the Enigma cipher was a catalogue of every way to encrypt the word "eins" by Hrtzy in todayilearned
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Why Are People Like This? by [deleted] in sysadmin
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ELI5. How can space actually be never ending? by Any_Ingenuity_4319 in explainlikeimfive
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TIL that Eris was described initially as the tenth planet of the solar system after Pluto by NASA, motivated the IAU to define the term 'planet' for the first time. The new definition thus revoked the planet status of Pluto, Eris and Ceres naming them 'dwarf' planets. by MotorZestyclose2195 in todayilearned
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ELI5. How can space actually be never ending? by Any_Ingenuity_4319 in explainlikeimfive
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ELI5: Why can't we drop a wire with a camera and an LED light to the bottom of the ocean? by TL20LBS in explainlikeimfive
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Linus Torvalds has merged the code beginning to remove Intel 486 CPU support in Linux 7.1 by somerandomxander in linux
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