I almost forget every time...

The original iPod pretty much set the standard for mp3 players.

The iPhone set the standard for modern smartphones.

Nokia used to be one of the world's biggest companies.

Initially, there was consideration to sell Mojang, (and Minecraft) to Valve.

The first ever computer "bug" was a moth that short-circuited a mainframe's motherboard after landing on two contacts.

Pinkie Pie was originally going to be a white pegasus named "Surprise".

Comcast has been confirmed multiple times by multiple organizations as being "The Worst Company on Earth".

Recently, a fire started at the manufacturing plant that made the batteries of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. Coincidence?

A bag of water actually can be used to start a fire by magnifying sunlight.

"Black light" is actually just ultraviolet, but our eyes can't see it, hence why it still appears dark.

Tests have shown that blue light has an adverse effect on sleeping habits, which is why some OSs such as iOS (I think) and Windows 10 now have "night modes" that reduce the blue light output by the display.

Fire burns in different colors depending on what the fuel is.

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The common household cat goes by the scientific name "Felis catus".

Cat fur is easily charged with static electricity... LIGHTNING CATS!

A group of kittens is a Kindle, while a group of cats is a Clowder.

Humans have 206 bones, while cats have 290.

Cats have a very poor sense of taste, compared to even a human's.

S3 was fairly well-known for it's production of it's graphics cards. Namely, the S3-Virge line, famed for being so bad that people called it a "Graphics decelerator".

AMD beat Intel to general purpose 64-bit processors.

USB was once one of the slowest standards available. Look at where we are now.

Apple has a long history of using their own connectors to reduce and/or eliminate competition. For example, the Apple Desktop Bus, or ADB, which was used for connecting peripherals such as mice and keyboards to their computers before the advent of USB.

A modern smartphone is more powerful than all the world's best supercomputers from the 1950s combined. And that's only for a tiny fraction of their cost.

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It's faster to carry a truckload of multi-terabyte hard drives than it is to send the data contained on those drives over the internet.

Early screwdrivers were invented during the middle ages.

Hasbro's hinted that season 7 won't be the last MLP season.

Y'know how in software, the terms "i386" and "x86-64" are thrown around a lot? That's because i386 was the name of Intel's 386 processor, which was the first to support 32 bit x86 software. x86-64 was developed by AMD as a 64-bit extension to i386.

Floppy disks are actually still very convenient when you can't boot from usb or a dvd drive.

Speaking of floppies, Sony invented the 3.5 inch floppy disk.

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Many plastics containing a certain fire retardant chical turn yellow over time due to exposure to UV rays.

Sony invented the 3.5" foppy disk, and Apple was one of the first to use it.

Apple for a short time also developed their own floppy disk technology, dubbed "The Twiggy Diskette" by many. Early Mac prototypes used the drive, but both the twiggy disk and drive were discontinued due to cost, as well as the fact that nobody wanted it.

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Now that I've got the brunt of quite a few recent tests out of the way, I've got more than enough time on my hands, so expect updates daily. Maybe.
I've been spending more time than I probably should be watching Youtube and doing random things.

Unlike Iron, which creates flaky rust as it oxidizes, Aluminum oxidizes to form corundum, which is actually more resilient than the element in its pure form.

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Alrighty, let's get into it! (AND THIS TIME I DIDN'T FORGET! )

Microsoft wasn't actually Bill Gates' first business. That award goes to Traf-O-Data, which, as the name implies, was a company that analyzed data from traffic counters.

The garage that Apple started in didn't have Windows.
Proof:

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Busicon was one of the earliest companies to use Intel CPUs. For what, you may wonder? Calculators. Because that's what an "affordable" computer at that time essentially was.

The headphone jack/audio jack has existed in some form or another for over half a century.

An early form of non-mechanaical data storage for laptops was called "Bubble Memory" due to how it operates internally.

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Samsung also manufactures tanks and other military equipment.

Blackberry and Nokia used to utterly dominate the phone market. Then along came Motorola and their fliphones, which, along with Blackberry and Nokia, were promptly smitten by Apple's iOS and Google's Android. Somewhere in there Microsoft could be heard digging the grave of Windows Mobile.

Is it possible to add storage to an SD card? Why in fact, yes. But only if you find the proper eMMC chip to pair with the controller.

Chalkboard chalk isn't chalk. It's gypsum.

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IBM used to produce processors for Apple's Macintosh systems.

ARM, as in the processor architecture, used to stand for "Acorn RISC Machine", as the CPU was originally developed by Acorn Computers. After the company was dissolved into multiple subsidiaries, ARM Holdings, which controlled the use of the ARM IP, changed the name to "Advanced RISC Machine", as Acorn Computers no longer existed.

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It's theorized that apes may be able to not only understand human language, but to actually speak them as well, but at a pitch that we can't understand.

Nintendo's Mario franchise is more well-known than Disney's Mickey Mouse.

Super Smash Bros. Wasn't originally intended to use characters from various game series, but rather its own proprietary character roster. Then one guy decided it would be funny to replace a character texture with Mario, and the rest is history.

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Android was originally a clone of BlackBerry's mobile OS.

American cheese is actually a mix of many different cheeses mixed together.

YouTube was originally a video dating site.

(I'm not entirely sure about the YouTube one but the sources and videos I've seen about its history all say so.)

The Ford Model T is still the best selling car of all time.

When it comes to heaters, technically there's only 0% and 100% efficiency, since an inefficient heater expells no heat.

If cars were to improve at the rate of Moore's law, then we'd have light speed vehicles right now.

Because I freaking forgot again.

Blu-Ray discs are able to hold more data because they use a shorter wavelength of light, allowing for information to be stores more compactly.

The CD originates from the laserdisc, a record-sized disc that served practically the same purpose as a CD or DVD.

Due to the popularity of digital download and streaming, sales of physical copies of movies has dropped to nearly an all-time low.

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The Neanderthals likely existed at the same time as modern humans before being driven to extinction.

Walt Disney was once called boring and uncreative by his former employer.

The reason why Chiclet gum is called that is because naturally occurring gum in the wild is called chicle.

Around 99% of the Earth's water is unusable for drinking or irrigation.

The oldest stars in the universe are also the smallest and coolest.

The Titanic was ironically called the "unsinkable ship".