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Show HN: DailyFact – Learn one new thing everyday
- tomardern 12y agoI launched a similar project a couple of years a go - www.factoclock.com, it's a new fact every minute.
- LVB 12y agoNice. BTW, there is a curious variance between the analog and digital clocks. Sometime they're in lockstep, sometimes they're 0.5s apart, and this can change just by switching tabs.
- punteney 12y agoAlthough today's fact of "Birds' knees actually bend backwards" is incorrect. Birds' knees bend they same way as our knees. What we think of as a bird's knee is actually more like their ankle. http://skeletaldrawing.blogspot.com/2011/09/um-hey-scientific-american-bird-knees.html http://skeletaldrawing.blogspot.com/2011/09/um-hey-scientifi...
- conradk 12y agoThat's fun. Would have loved to be able to get email notification when the "one thing from that day" is available. Just a suggestion :-)
- jordanbrown 12y agoSMS would be nice too.
- Agrosis 12y agoYeah, that's a good idea. I'll get on it! :D
- dtlyst 12y agoimho, you can use a nice and related background picture.. (check "dream afar")
- dtlyst 12y agoimho, you can place a "share" button with #TodayILearned hashtag..
- csandreasen 12y agoSo, what with me being the crazy guy who browses with Javascript disabled, why does this page load two scripts from fb.me (Facebook) just to display two lines of centered text? There is no graceful degradation - without Javascript enabled, all I see is the text at the top and bottom.
- callmeed 12y agoThis is pretty cool. BTW, if you need help with iOS I think this would make a great "notification only" app. I just launched http://playondeck.com/ http://playondeck.com/ and could easily fork the code for this.
- Agrosis 12y agoOh yeah I'll surely look into this! Thanks!
- mholt 12y agoCool. But I would really like at least one citation for every fact...
- nacs 12y agoSimilar site: http://instanerd.me/ http://instanerd.me/ (no affiliation)
- justinnoel 12y agoIt's fun. Although, one fact doesn't make me all too happy. I ended up looking somewhere else to get some more fun facts. How about giving access to yesterday's fact? :)
- Agrosis 12y agoYeah, I think yesterday's fact would be a good idea. I don't want this to be a fact-streaming site though, just get it and get out. :)