I've been pretty busy for the past couple days, so sorry if I missed yesterday's post. I forgot, andy phone doesn't seem to let me check.

Granite is mildly radioactive.

Housing insulation was once made with asbestos, but production of insulation using it was halted due to the respiratory problems that arose from handling them.

Compressing shale will convert it into slate.

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And if so, random fact: For a while pencils didn't come with erasers because teachers thought that they'd encourage mistakes.

Trixie Facts will now be a weekly thing until I run out of jokes worth making about it. Check back every Friday to learn more about the greatest and most powerful unicorn in Equestria.

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So I changed my profile name again....this won't be a common thing. It now matches my Devient Art name so (if you ever wanted to) you could find me by the same name.

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Blue light is known for making it harder to sleep, which is why recent updates to certain phones, tablets, and computers now include a "night mode" that gives the screen an orange-yellowish tint.

Even now, there is no conclusive idea as to what dreams are, or what their function is.

Additionally, there isn't any solid theory as to why sleep is required.

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For a while, pencils didn't have erasers, because it was believed that erasers would encourage mistakes.

Pen caps contain small holes in them to prevent suffocation if they're accidentally lodged somewhere.

Pencils are typically made of softwood, not hardwood.

Technically, it's possible to make pencils out of any fibrous material, including fabrics and strands of plastic.

The Apple Pencil is not meant to be sharpened.

Lead is a very well known heavy-metal toxin.

Arsenic, also toxic, was once used in many household items.

Cadmium, similarly to the previous two elements, is toxic as well, and was once found commonly in paint, and more recently rechargeable batteries. Though, most rechargeable batteries today are either nickel-metal hydride, lithium-ion, or lead.

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Geore Washington didn't associate with any specific political party, as he feared that parties may drive the US into chaos. Look at us now.

Comcast is literally a business empire, and yet they pay no attention to customer service.

The Intel Core series of processors were based directly upon the Pentium 3, not 4. Why? The Pentium 4 ran several times hotter, using a highly inefficient architecture compared to the Pentium 3.

DOS was originally a clone of CP/M.

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Building your own PC is often cheaper than buying custom or prebuilt, since there's no labor cost. Only parts.

Minecraft is one of the few games I know of that still run at or above 30 fps on single core systems with less than 2 gigs of ram.

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Once again, I nearly forgot that this existed. Let’s get straight into it now, shall we?

Acer’s proprietary “Converter Port” appears to be some sort of weird conglomerate of displayport’s receptacle, Thunderbolt/USB’s signaling, and some other random crap thrown in. No wonder why to this day, there’s hardly any support for the thing.

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Texas Instruments has a near-monopoly on graphing calculators.

Microsoft was founded in the pool room of a hotel.

The earliest portable computers were known as "luggables", due to their size and weight. They were practically just desktops with a carrying handle and screen.

Idaho is not, in fact, made of potatoes. Even though I DID eat freshly-made chips for dinner at a restaurant yesterday.

Verizon owns Yahoo.

Yahoo uses Bing as its search engine.

I'm really tired right now, so that's all.

Glue can be made from fish.

The glue used in many labels often deteriorates over time.

Using all-purpose "school glue", corn starch, and water, you can make a very sticky slime.

Post-it notes were unintentionally created as a byproduct of a research to create stronger glues.

Many screen bezels are held in place with nothing more than a bit of glue.

The telephone was once called a "Gimmick", and Alexander Graham Bell was told that nobody would ever use it. Look at us now.

AT&T/Bell Labs and National Geographic are two of the best-known companies that were owned, operated, and/or influenced directly by Bell.

It's possible to use copper oxide to create semiconductors. Specifically, diodes for AM/crystal radios.

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Apples contain a very small amount of cyanide in their cores.

Technically, bananas are actually berries.

Pineapples don't grow on trees. They are the trees.

Grapes are the only berries that don't have the word "berry" in their name.

Strawberries aren't actually berries.

Glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid, which is why in some old buildings, the glass on their windows is slightly thicker at the bottom than at the top of the window.

Samsung also manufactures tanks.

In Minecraft, the torch was originally going to become changed to a temporary lighting source that would "burn out", and be replaced by lanterns. The change was never made.

SD cards and the built-in e-MMC chips in some SSDs and phones are functionally the exact same.

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Just a few decades ago, a hard drive capable of holding a couple gigs of data would cost thousands, if not millions of dollars, and often they'd weigh as much or more than a full-sized household refrigerator.

There has been ongoing research to find and/or invent new ways to store increasingly large amounts of data, from storing them in additional "dimensions" using holographics discs, to using DNA to completely reencode data into an entirely organic form.

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Which country do you live?
Portugal

How old are you?
21.

Favorite ships? (top 10)
1º Daring Do/Ahuizolt (both normal and gender swap('rule 63'));

2º Flutterhy/Discord.

3º Twilight Sparkle/Spike.

4º Rarity/Spike

5º Celestia/Discord

6º Babs Seed / Featherweight (I gain interest on this ship, when read a comic.)

7º Spike/Starlight Glimmer.

8º King Sombra/Celestia

9º King Sombra/ Twilight Sparkle

10º Starlight Glimmer/Thorax

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Angry Birds is actually very similar to an old game by the name of "Crush the Castle", which was released before Angry Birds.

The mobile gaming market is extremely oversaturated with ripoffs of ripoffs of ripoffs... and so on.

It was once considered to possibly never have an app store for iOS.

Android was originally developed as somewhat of a Blackberry OS clone. Blackberry's latest phones, though not developed by Blackberry anymore, use Android.

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Windows 10 is supposedly the last version of Windows. Ever.

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.

The first computer mouse was a wooden block with gears on the bottom and one button in the corner.