Random Facts:
Android and Mac OS X are both based on Linux.

Bill Gates was once a well-known hater of open source software. That was back when it took weeks of hand-coded programs to equal a decent salary. Times have changed, and now Microsoft is pretty much kissing up to Linux and a buttload of other Open Source Software vendors.

The Pentium 4 is quite well known for overheating, so Intel dumped the lineup, and used the Pentium 3 designs to create the Core brand.

Because this should be done for someone and she is the obvious choice.

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Those dark marks on the moon aren't just craters, but may possibly be ancient flows of magma from the satellite's early years.

Astronomy is one of the oldest forms of science in the world.

It's believed that organic matter and water may have arrived to Earth via collisions during the planets' formation, with evidence showing that there is indeed some form or another of organic matter on various asteroids and comets.

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I'm feeling bored 'cause I've been trying to watch Youtube vids for the past half an hour only to get horrid network lag, so let's just get into this, since it takes considerably less bandwidth to post a blog than to buffer a video.

As devices have gotten smaller and smaller, they've often become far less upgradable, or even repairable in many cases. *cough cough* Apple *cough cough*

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Dogs evolved from wolves.

An experiment was carried out on foxes to recreate the domestication of wolves. The end result were foxes that acted like puppies.

Not a fact for sure, but from what I can tell, most cats seem to have an ingrained hatred for all things, living and nonliving.

Dogs make very good burgler alarms, considering just how little it takes to set them off barking.

It's fine to put Walmart goldfish in cold water. They're perfectly fine with it.

USB add-on cards using VIA chipsets are notorious for causing older systems to hang or crash upon boot. Hardware enthusiasts, (myself included) would recommend using either any integrated USB chipset available on-board, or, if USB 2.0 is desired, use a card with an NEC chipset.

USB includes a "legacy mode" that allows for newer devices to be detected by older software.

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Just wondering, should I replace the Random Facts blog with a "Daily Discussion" blog? I could still include the random facts, but in addition, I could use the blogs to talk about various things going on and stuff like that.

Bulls aren't triggered by the color red. It's actually motion that sets them off.

9 volt batteries, when deconstructed, are often actually made up of a 6-pack of "AAAA" batteries, which are smaller and thinner than conventional AAA batteries.

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If the multiverse theory is true, then you're dead, alive, nonexisting, unborn, undead, alienated, godly, etc. etc. all at once. Just in different realities.

Minecraft is the second best selling videogame of all time, right after Tetris.

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"Plantera" and "Boss 2" from the Terraria soundtrack are remixes of "Underground Jungle" and "Corruption" from the same soundtrack, respectively. And "Boss 3" is a remix of "Crimson".

I got the idea for this while I was talking to Tynal on Discord.

I've finally done it. I forgot entirely about a random fact blog for yesterday.

So here's both today's AND yesterday's!

Pianos used to have keys made of ivory, hence the phrase "tickling the ivories".

There are some plants that either never flower at all, or flower so irregularly that actually seeing their flowers is often a once-in-a-lifetime event.

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Black is just the lack of light.

White is actually the full spectrum of visible light condensed into a beam.

Pigments and screen colors work differently. Primary colors in pigments are Red, Yellow, and Blue, while on monitors it's Red, GREEN, and Blue.

Stop signs were once yellow.

The TV and Radio signals from the 20th century are still scattered throughout space.

Its actually possible to train a goldfish to do tricks. They have much longer memories than three seconds.

Napkins didn't exist in the middle ages.

It was once considered bad to take a bath or shower, and because of that, disease spread like wildfire.

Nvidia onceade a graphics card that rendered using squares instead of the normal triangles. Nvidia RIVA TNT, if I remember the name correctly. It flopped.

Nvidia once made a graphics card that rendered using squares instead of the normal triangles. Nvidia RIVA TNT, if I remember the name correctly. It was called the Nvidia NV1, and it flopped.

The little-known Leapfrog Didj handheld console is actually just about as powerful as an early smartphone, and is surprisingly easily modded given the correct tools. (Not to mention the fact that I haven't touched mine since about fifth grade)

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Back to the Future was almost renamed to Spaceman from Pluto.

APM was replaced by ACPI, which was then replaced by UEFI. (UEFI combines the function of the BIOS and ACPI into one module.)

APM = Advanced Power Management

ACPI = Advanced Configuration and Power Interface

UEFI = Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

Minecraft was inspired by Infiniminer, and was originally called Minecraft: Order of the Stone.

There's this mindset where I live to simply shrug and dismiss the shift from sunny days to blizzards within a day as "Meh. Utah weather." Seriously. A few times it's snowed and hailed while the sun was out. Like as in, there was literally just a cloud or two hovering right over a single city, dropping hail and snow while noone else even notices. So yeah. Utah weather.

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The tradition of calling the president by the name "Mr. President" was started by George Washington, who disliked the idea of associating the president with high levels of power. (Obviously, since there was the whole "we just defeated the most powerful nation in the world" thing and all, nobody wanted another king.)

Benjamin Franklin was considered for a time to possibly be the president, but due to his age and ongoing illness, he refused.

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The iPhone was originally going to have a UI based on the original iPod, with a touchscreen click-wheel and a menu instead of app icons.

Nokia is talk I g of plans to bring back the famed indestructible brick-phone as a low-cost alternative to smartphones. Let's hope they don't run out of neutron star matter in the process.

The first version of Windows could fit on a 3.5" 1.44 megabyte floppy disk. How do I know? 'Cause I happen to have a copy on a floppy in my room.

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While no longer being officially maintained, Microsoft has had (and continues to have) a record of pushing out updates for Windows XP, as it's still a very commonly used Operating System. (Check your local ATM and see what runs under all that software. Heck, take a look at the POS system for stores that've been open for five years or more. )

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