The FBI's public archive of celebrity files
vault.fbi.gov is a real .gov domain with roughly 7,000 declassified FBI files, including Einstein, Lennon, Monroe, Disney, and Tupac.
Read the noteToday I learned
Small notes. Useful fixes.
Things I figured out, looked up, or had explained to me. One thing, one takeaway, written down before I have to learn it twice.
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The foxes that accidentally became cute
Belyaev's Siberian fox experiment selected only for calm behavior around humans. Within a few generations, the foxes got floppy ears, spotted coats, and wagging tails. Nobody bred for any of that.
Read the noteWe're closer to the edge of the universe than to the smallest possible thing
Brian Cox made a claim that stuck with me, so I checked the math. On a logarithmic scale, we sit closer to the edge of the observable universe than to the Planck length.
Read the noteChrome Memory Saver was signing me out of everything
Chrome's Memory Saver fully discards inactive tabs. Sites that store sessions in memory lose them when the tab gets frozen. Here's what to do about it.
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