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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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. 
)
Many of Intel's processors before their Pentium lineup lacked the power to do certain mathematical functions by themselves. Because of this, Intel created the x87 coprocessor series to accelerate calculations.
The material used to create the rewritable layer on CDs and DVDs is actually moderately rare.
HTML isn't actually a true "programming language" due to how it isn't ever compiled. Instead, it's known as a "markup language". It's even in the name.
Yahoo was recently bought by Verizon.
Google once offered to be bought by Yahoo.
Its actually relatively common to find valuable items being sold for dirt cheap in thrift stores. That's how I get my computer parts.
Windows 7, along with Windows XP, are both well known for running on just about any x86 based platform above a i486 processor.
Lehi, Utah is a rapidly growing city that's adopted the nickname of "Silicon Slopes" due to the massive growth in its tech sector, mirroring the growth of Silicon Valley's early years. It also coincidentally was where I lived for most of my life up until last year.
Dogs will also whine when they're confused, not just when they're anxious or nervous.
I seriously need to, like, set an alarm or something to remind me that I do this daily. :P
PowerVR, though little-known in the mainstream PC world, produces GPUs for mobile devices, ranging from the iPhone (which Apple's going to use its own in-house GPU instead of PowerVR's for the next gen), to many, many Android phones and tablets.
Nvidia used to make chipsets and integrated graphics chips for AMD.
Solar cells can actually be constructed using copper oxide and saltwater.
Source: DIY solar cell
Batteries can similarly be made at home, using Zinc and Copper, doused with an electrolyte.
Source: Sciphile - homemade battery materials
In its earlier days, Intel would package and sell chips that didn't meet their expectations as locked down, lower end models. For example, chips that couldn't quite meet a speed requirement would be locked to a lower speed setting, and sold as a cheaper low end model.
There exists a tree that grows hundreds of types of fruits. How? It's grower has been continually grafting branches of other fruit trees onto it for years.
Microsoft was originally "Traf-O-Data", and made software for traffic lights.
The original iPod had a hard drive, not flash memory.
Just when I thought that I'd be able to update more stories daily... life throws me a brick to the face.
So... yeah, less updates for now, and I've still barely got anything written for the 75 follower special past the 1500 word mark.
Facts:
Live in a remote area in the middle of nowhere with no network access? Get a satellite phone!
(Satellite phones operate using satellites. Duh.)
One of the most useful weapons against oil spills are... bacteria.
Chalkboards were mostly replaced with whiteboards to reduce dust.
The kilogram was once defined using a solid metal cylinder. Now it's defined using a precise number of atoms.
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