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TIL the look of the cartoon character Felix the Cat is based on images from minstrel shows and racist caricatures called pickaninnies. Minstrelsy tropes worked well for creating a cartoon animal. The tropes cued audiences to expect a rebellious, active, amusing character.

by whatilearned January 15, 2022, 2:11 pm

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TIL about Ismail al-jazari wrote the “Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices” where he described 50 mechanical devices along with instructions on creating them. He has been described as the father of robotics and modern day engineering.

by whatilearned January 12, 2022, 7:53 pm

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TIL that during WW2 a Spanish man convinced the Nazis that he was a spy living in London, and fed them false information. This grew to him working for Britain with captured spies, creating a fictional network of other spies, and being awarded a medal from both Britain AND Nazi Germany.

by whatilearned December 10, 2021, 8:54 pm

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Creating personalised data stories with GPT-3

by ProgrammerDude December 8, 2021, 9:06 am

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Creating a better flamegraph visualization

by ProgrammerDude December 7, 2021, 4:37 pm

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Creating Scalable Machine Learning Systems for Analyzing Real-time data in Python — Part 1

by ProgrammerDude December 6, 2021, 10:53 am

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TIL in the years following WWI, Europe was experiencing overpopulation, unemployment, and an energy crisis. To solve these issues, German Architect Herman Sörgel introduced Atlantropa: a plan to drain the Mediterranean Sea with dams creating massive amounts of energy and new land for living space!

by whatilearned December 4, 2021, 5:28 pm

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Joe Biden is creating a team of mental gymnasts to play the media.

by CopyPastaArchive December 4, 2021, 12:04 am

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JetBrains releases Compose Multiplatform 1.0 for creating Kotlin apps

by ProgrammerDude December 3, 2021, 8:45 am

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A simple library for creating animations on top of Adafruit’s pixelbuf library

by ProgrammerDude December 2, 2021, 2:07 am

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TIL Inuit and Yupik people of Alaska and Northern Canada carved narrow slits into ivory, antler and wood creating snow goggles to prevent snow blindness.

by whatilearned November 30, 2021, 10:27 am

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TIL that in Toy Story 4 instead of creating all of the individual cobwebs by hand, Pixer created AI spiders that were programmed to spin the webs wherever the cobwebs needed to be.

by whatilearned November 26, 2021, 10:35 am

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