Fun fact: for the chapter Meet the Pyro, the original name was going to be meem, but I decided to go for a more professional name, along with the fact that the medic cutout was nowhere to be seen.

Nearly forgot to post this today.

Bill Gates may eventually become the world's first trillionaire.

The Commodore 64 is very well known for it's famed SID chip, used in the creation of "8-bit" style music.

Pocket calculators have more computational power than the ENIAC supercomputer, which was one of the first ever truly digital computers.

AMD and Intel once shared the same CPU socket... Until Intel got snarky and made Intel-only sockets.

In some organisms, blood is blue due to the iron normally found in blood cells being replaces by copper.

Most light guns/light pens no longer work with modern displays, as they used various quirks of old CRT screens to pinpoint their location.

Cars, up until around 1950-1960, often lacked seat belts simply because they weren't required back then.

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Funfact: GrUToS’S horn is the same size as Luna’s.

Gatorade was formulated by a group of school nurses to treat the local team's problems with dehydration.

There is a difference between Mainframes and Supercomputers. Supercomputers may and often are made of hundreds of networked units built to run extremely complex computations, while Mainframes are designed to be compact, single-module solutions meant to process small, easy-to-solve processes and data storage for everyday application in businesses.

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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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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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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.

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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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.

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.

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.