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.

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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Compressed air is commonly used as a cleaner, to blow away dust buildups.

Helium cylinders are actually a mix of helium and oxygen to prevent accidental asphyxiation.

Hydrogen is an extremely flammable gas, and when burnt, produces water. This is the central idea behind hydrogen fuel cells.

Noble gases such as Xenon are commonly used in light fixtures due to their inability to form compounds, allowing for a longer filament lifespan.

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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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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.

PowerVR, while mostly unheard of in the PC gaming market, develops GPU technology for mobile devices.

3Dfx was acquired by Nvidia shortly after a huge event of bad decision-making alienated all of their manufacturing partners, leaving them struggling for money.

PhysX was once it's own add-in card, before the rights to the tech was acquired by Nvidia and combined with their GeForce/Quadro lineup.

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Powdered aluminum is used to make Thermite, which is why it's illegal to sell at a certain particle size.

Your water contains a very high amount of dihydrogen monoxide. Like as in, all of it is made of that. dihydrogen monoxide =
H2O = water.

USB Flash drives typically operate using NAND flash chips.

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Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla often feuded over the household use of Alternating and Direct current.

The USB specification typically sets 5 volts as the standard voltage.

The reason why computers heat up so much during heavy use is because their components have resistance to the electric current, causing some of it to be dissipated as heat.

Some materials are electroluminescent, meaning that they emit light in the presence of an electrical field.

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So, as the title says, this here is a random fact about me:

If you google my name without the "MLP" at the front, then you will also get me, (except for the Bonanza, that is not me... must be an impostor).

ISA, or "Industry Standard Architecture" was the most common PC expansion bus of the early to late 90s, before being superceded by PCI, EISA, and VESA Local Bus, or VLB. Of those three, only PCI managed to ever gain a strategic foothold in the market.

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Tires make amazing donuts. Try one next time with a swig of bleach!

If you chant the Derp Song around a flaming pentagram surrounding a Derpy plushie, then you will summon Derpy.

Ketchup runs in our veins.

It's actually March 32. It's just that no one wants to acknowledge it.

Discord makes Nokia phones.

Obviously, this is my April Fool's joke.

Nearly forgot that I haven't done one yet.

Intel's Pentium lineup used to be their highest-end processors available. That is, until the Pentium II Xeon came out. Xeons then took over the consumer market, leaving Pentium to enthusiast-grade desktops and mid/low cost PCs. And then the Pentium took a Core to the face. Now, it's the intermediate mid-range CPU, sandwiched between the low end Atom and Celeron, and the high-end Core series.

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Screwdrivers are very painful if lodged in undesired locations.

Same thing goes with any large object.

Mosquitos are very annoying.

This text is curving down.

It's getting shorter.

Every line.

Lol.

I've stopped keeping track of which days I've accidentally skipped a looong time ago.

Anyways, I'm pretty sure that I missed a couple, and I remember hearing a comment about wanting Canada facts, so HERE IT IS!

Winnie the Pooh was inspired by the interactions between the author's son, Christopher Robin, and a bear brought from Canada named Winnipeg.

Canada has the world's longest coastline.

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Bricks are mostly air. Same goes for concrete.

Duct Tape was used to fix some things in space, including a helmet if I remember correctly.

Contrary to popular belief, mentors in coca-cola is NOT a chemical reaction. In reality, the fizz is caused by the carbon dioxide in the soda condensing in tiny pits on the surface of the mento, and hen being rapidly released from the bottle. So its not a chemical reaction, but a physical reaction.

Tech blog #4

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