https://peterbenoit.com/til/ Short things I learned, figured out, or had explained to me. en-us Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://peterbenoit.com/til/fbi-vault-celebrity-files/ https://peterbenoit.com/til/fbi-vault-celebrity-files/ vault.fbi.gov is a real .gov domain with roughly 7,000 declassified FBI files, including Einstein, Lennon, Monroe, Disney, and Tupac. Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://peterbenoit.com/til/belyaev-domestication-syndrome/ https://peterbenoit.com/til/belyaev-domestication-syndrome/ 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. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://peterbenoit.com/til/closer-to-edge-of-universe-than-smallest-thing/ https://peterbenoit.com/til/closer-to-edge-of-universe-than-smallest-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. Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://peterbenoit.com/til/chrome-memory-saver/ https://peterbenoit.com/til/chrome-memory-saver/ 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. Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000