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TIL that in 1833 Britain used 40% of its national budget to free all slaves in the Empire. The loan for the Slavery Abolition Act was so large that it was not paid off until 2015. (www.aaihs.org)
submitted 3 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TIL that Australian scientists accidentally developed pain-free blood sugar testing for diabetics while working on solar cells. (www.reuters.com)
submitted 12 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TIL that you can autofill custom fields in Bitwarden (and likely other password managers) (lemmy.ca)
submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Sometimes a login page will have an additional field on top of the username and password (ex. last name, account number). This is often the case with things like banks, insurance, or government accounts.

I usually use Bitwarden to populate the username and password, then fill in the other field manually. Turns out, you can autofill those fields too:

  1. Right click in the field
  2. Select Bitwarden > copy custom field name

Then enter that as the name for the custom field.

Up till now, I was using custom fields to store additional information about the webpage. This will make things easier :)

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TIL: that Laz Alondo lost 40 pounds for season 4 of The Boys". (www.menshealth.com)
submitted 20 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TIL about fish with the nomenclature "Boops, Boops" (en.m.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Boops boops (/ˈboʊ.ɒps ˈboʊ.ɒps/; from Ancient Greek βόωψ, literally 'ox-eyed'), commonly called the bogue, is a species of seabream native to the eastern Atlantic

Domain: 	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Spariformes
Family:	Sparidae
Genus:	Boops
Species:	B. boops
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TIL about magnolia plants are so old that they are pollinated by beetles, because they were around before the advent of bees. (www.wikipedia.org)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TIL the probable author of the Social Darwinist tract "Might Is Right" was a New Zealander who ended his days selling ice cream and candy in Illinois (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TIL the Roman Colosseum was named after a nearby statue of emperor Nero which was modeled after one of the seven wonders of the ancient world – the Colossus of Rhodes (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TIL Pakistan has the highest number of glaciers in the world, outside of the polar regions. (earth.org)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TIL that after coffee come to Britain in the 1600s a ‘women’s petition’ was written against the drink complaining it made men impotent (www.smithsonianmag.com)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TIL through his numerous accolades, David Attenborough has more letters after his name than in it, including OM, GSMG, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FSA, FRSA, FZS, FRSGS and FRSB. (virginradio.co.uk)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Today I learned that slavery is still legal in America, as long as you commit a crime. (www.naacpldf.org)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TIL Johnny Depp cut off the tip of his own finger. (youtu.be)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TIL That the hair style Princess Leia wears in Star Wars, was inspired by women of the Mexican Revolution, most notably, guerrilla fighter Clara de la Rocha. (www.ripleys.com)
submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TIL the words "fajita" and "fascіsm" both derive from the Latin word "fasces" (boingboing.net)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TIL during the production of the 2008 film, The Reader, the filmmakers delayed filming the sex scenes between 17-year-old David Kross and Kate Winslet until the former turned 18. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TIL that in 2019 a Buffalo Wild Wings general manager died after being exposed to toxic fumes from cleaning agents (www.cnn.com)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TIL that child pornography was legal in Denmark between 1969-1979 (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TIL that Butthole Surfers singer Gibby Haynes lived with psychologist Timothy Leary in the 1980s, who tested various combinations of drugs on him. (dangerousminds.net)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Today I learned this is what Gilbert Gottfried actually sounded like before changing his voice. Here is his voice from an SNL sketch in 1980 (youtu.be)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TIL that China accounts for 80% of Buick's sales (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TIL that Keir Starmer, leader of the UK's Labour Party and current Prime Minister, was named after the founder of the Labour Party, Keir Hardie. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TIL the rarest and purest Arabian horse breed is actually Egyptian (www.horseandhound.co.uk)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TIL fingernails grow nearly 3-4 times faster than toenails (www.healthline.com)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TIL that Captain E. Smith on the Titanic was made aware of an ice field through 7 different warnings, but did not listen. (www.palomar.edu)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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