TIL: a former Italian porn star, Carlo Massi, quit porn to do research in applied mathematics, got his PhD, taught real analysis, became a professor, and then got sacked for being a former porn star. He sued and won against the university.
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TIL of the "Shoe Fitting Flouroscope" or "X-Ray Shoe Fitter" which existed in shoe stores up until the 70's - Allowing customers (mostly children) to look through a viewer at a live X-Ray of their feet, to see the bones of their toes and how they lined up with the stitching of the shoe's sole.
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#Todayilearned that #curl has a --resolve option. Helped me a lot when debugging ingress on a docker swarm cluster.
> curl example.com --resolve www.example.com:80:127.0.0.1
will call port 80 on localhost instead of the public IP of www.example.com
