Show HN: DailyFact – Learn one new thing everyday

[+] punteney|11 years ago|reply

Although 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-scientifi...

[+] tomardern|11 years ago|reply

I launched a similar project a couple of years a go - www.factoclock.com, it's a new fact every minute.

[+] LVB|11 years ago|reply

Nice. 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.

[+] csandreasen|11 years ago|reply

So, 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|11 years ago|reply

This 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/ and could easily fork the code for this.

[+] Agrosis|11 years ago|reply

Oh yeah I'll surely look into this! Thanks!

[+] justinnoel|11 years ago|reply

It'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|11 years ago|reply

Yeah, 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. :)

[+] mholt|11 years ago|reply

Cool. But I would really like at least one citation for every fact...

[+] conradk|11 years ago|reply

That's fun. Would have loved to be able to get email notification when the "one thing from that day" is available. Just a suggestion :-)

[+] Agrosis|11 years ago|reply

Yeah, that's a good idea. I'll get on it! :D

[+] jordanbrown|11 years ago|reply

SMS would be nice too.

[+] nacs|11 years ago|reply

Similar site: http://instanerd.me/

(no affiliation)

[+] dtlyst|11 years ago|reply

imho, you can use a nice and related background picture.. (check "dream afar")

[+] dtlyst|11 years ago|reply

imho, you can place a "share" button with #TodayILearned hashtag..

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