Trivia

Futura on the moon

10.22.2010

The typeface mankind chose to leave on the moon was Futura. RELATED: How many Helveticas does it take to get to the moon? (via NASA)

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How bacon is made

10.21.2010

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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A Brief History of Marvel Comics [INFOGRAPHIC]

10.17.2010

Click image for large version. (Via Online Schools)

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National Coffee Day

09.29.2010

Happy National Coffee Day! Here are 10 coffee facts you may not know. A refill of coffee trivia can be enjoyed here. And is caffeine bad for you? RELATED: The perfect cup of coffee.

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Equinoxes and solstices

09.22.2010

Today’s the first day of Fall, my favorite season of the year. The autumnal equinox will be hitting us overnight. What’s the difference between an equinox and a solstice? The word “equinox” comes from Latin and means “equality of night and day.” Contrary to popular belief, the equinox does not last for 24 hours. It [...]

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15 Things You Didn’t Know About Outer Space [INFOGRAPHIC]

09.07.2010

Click image for large version. (Via Online Schools)

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First images of things

07.06.2010

A self-portrait taken by Robert Cornelius in 1839; the first known photograph ever taken of a human face. More first images of things here. First photo of a molecule, first photo in color, first image clicked in a browser, etc. (via oobject)

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Rock the red, white, and blue. In binary.

06.30.2010

From Code for America, a collection of patriotic quotations in binary. RELATED: For an instant time killer, check out this Binary to Text (ASCII) Conversion tool. ALSO RELATED: The Binary Floor.

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Visualizing empires decline

11.25.2009

Visualizing the decline of the world’s four maritime empires (British, Portuguese, French, Spanish) from 1800 to 2009. Watch what happens to France in about 1960. Source: Pedro M. Cruz

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And When the Sky Was Opened

11.24.2009

Only two more days until the traditional Thanksgiving Twilight Zone Marathon. Here’s one of my favorite episodes. Part 1 of 3: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video – Part 2 of 3 – Part 3 of 3 *Trivia: the actor playing Gart is Jim Hutton, Timothy’s old man.

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Surprising first products of 14 famous companies

10.07.2009

Some companies find their niche and stick to it. Others, though, have to adapt to changing markets in order to thrive. Here’s a look at some companies that switched industries at some point in their histories, usually for the better.

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Fun fact for a Friday morning

06.19.2009

Via Andreas: “At age 47, Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman began dating 13-year old model Mandy Smith, with her mother’s consent. Six years later, Bill and Mandy married. Following their divorce a year later, Bill’s 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy’s mother, 46, making Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother.”

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Did You Know?

03.29.2009

A must-see: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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‘Oldest English words’ identified

02.27.2009

From BBC, some of the oldest words in the English language have been identified by a team of scientists. Among them are “I”, “we”, “two”, and “three”. Their analyses also include a fascinating prediction for English words likely to become extinct, citing “squeeze”, “guts”, “stick”, and “bad” as probable first casualties. =more=

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1234567890 Day

02.13.2009

In addition to being Friday the 13th, today is 1234567890 Day. At 6:31 pm EST, the Unix time will be 1234567890. Unix time is defined as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January 1, 1970, not counting leap seconds. It is widely used in computing systems.

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The 1942 Battle of Los Angeles

01.28.2009

I blogged about this a few years ago, and will be talking more about it this year in a, shall we say, much more novel fashion (hint hint). I just found this on YouTube; radio footage from the morning after. Have a listen, and check out the two links below for more detailed analysis of [...]

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