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".

Black holes have such a strong gravitational pull, that even light can't escape them.

There is evidence that there may be a star even denser than Neutron Stars - Quark Stars.

Quark Stars are theoretical stars that have such a high gravitational pull that the Neutrons normally found in a Neutron Star are further crushed down into the particles that make up neutrons. Namely, Quarks.

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The "lead" in pencils is actually a mixture of clay and graphite.

Speaking of pencil lead, if you put a piece in an airtight jar, or better yet, a vacuum chamber, and connect a 12 volt power supply or battery to it, it'll glow a bright yellow-red. (Congrats for building a lightbulb and not burn your fingers off!)

There are ancient books that have been discovered to be bound using human skin.

The founders of Google used to sleep in their office overnight.

Also, I'm posting this in the 5 minutes I have between classes.

At this point, many game consoles are basically just cool looking boxes with PC/tablet hardware crammed inside with support for controllers.

The Gameboy Advance had a Z80 coprocessor alongside the native ARM CPU to run games meant for the older Gameboy/Gameboy Color.

Similarly, the Nintendo DS line has a low-power ARM coprocessor paired with a more powerful core to retain backwards compatibility with the Gameboy Advance.

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Minecraft was originally named "Cave Game", but then was renamed to "Minecraft: Order of the Stone", before being changed yet again to just plain Minecraft.

The creeper model in Minecraft was originally a botched Pig model.

The End dimension in Minecraft contains code for a cancelled "Sky" dimension, which generated nothing but floating islands, and only existed in Indev.

Emeralds were originally coded to be Rubies, but were then retextured because Dinnerbone was colorblind.

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According to certain studies, the internal clocks of our bodies are actually set to behave according to a 25-hour day.
Source: Human Biological Clock Set Back an Hour. (Created 1999, Harvard University)

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"Set in stone" doesn't actually mean forever, as stone can still be broken. What you're looking for doesn't exist. Nothing us forever.

Plastic is one of the most durable materials ever creates. Unfortunately, this means that most aren't biodegradable. Instead, they are either melted down and remade, or simply thrown away, polluting the environment.

A 5 megabyte hard drive used to cost tens of thousands in the 70's.

Movie theaters used to sneak single frame advertisements for drinks and popcorn into movies to boost sales.

The Earth has thousands of Near-Earth-Asteroids orbiting near and around its orbital path.

The Eiffel Tower also serves as a massive broadcasting antenna.

Plant leaves are green due to the chlorophyll they use to absorb sunlight.

Horseshoe crabs have blue blood.

Infrared light ranges through light waves that are lower frequency than the color red.

Similarly, ultraviolet light is just the light that has a higher frequency/shorter wavelength than violet.

Microwaving metal results in sparks.

Popcorn pops due to gases inside the kernel rapidly expanding.

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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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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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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Alrighty, let's have a nice, long, rant post about Comcast, instead of the usual plethora of random facts. Shall we? Otherwise, skip this thing if you don't want a rant.

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