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Apr
22nd
2017

Random Facts #73 · 1:02am Apr 22nd, 2017

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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Mar
19th
2017

Random Facts #42 · 6:03pm Mar 19th, 2017

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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Feb
24th
2017

Random Facts #22 · 8:11pm Feb 24th, 2017

"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.

Feb
23rd
2017

Random Facts #21 · 4:12pm Feb 23rd, 2017

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.

Mar
24th
2017

Random Facts #47 · 1:11pm Mar 24th, 2017

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.

Mar
2nd
2017

Random Facts #26 · 12:45am Mar 2nd, 2017

Nearly forgot to post this today. :facehoof:

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.

Feb
25th
2017

Random Facts #23 · 11:56pm Feb 25th, 2017

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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Sep
8th
2020

Funfact · 2:24pm Sep 8th, 2020

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

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Apr
10th
2017

Random Facts #62 · 11:10pm Apr 10th, 2017

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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Jan
26th
2017

Random Fun Little Fact About Me · 4:51am Jan 26th, 2017

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).

May
3rd
2017

Random Facts #81 · 11:42pm May 3rd, 2017

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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Apr
1st
2017

Random "Facts" #54 · 1:20pm Apr 1st, 2017

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.

Mar
12th
2017

Random Facts #35 + a few more "about me" facts · 6:10am Mar 12th, 2017

Nearly forgot that I haven't done one yet. :twilightsheepish:

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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Mar
19th
2018

Fact of the Week #3 · 5:02pm Mar 19th, 2018

Fallout: Equestria by Kkat did not just come out of the blue. It was inspired by a painting she saw that was titled "Pony Vegas" that, in her opinion, didn't make sense in the context of the show. She decided to try and figure out how to make the Fallout/MLP combination make sense both chronologically and thematically. She wanted to share MLP: FiM with her friends in a Fallout online community, and believed that a Fallout/MLP crossover would be a perfect for doing so. Thus, Fallout:

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Feb
5th
2022

Hollow song credits in order and (possibly?) fun facts. · 4:02am Feb 5th, 2022

10 years. They did an old song called "wasteland" and it was very popular for a short time. Their (super)Novocain song's video is kinda cool. Underrated band in my opinion, especially that ghost album.

Howard Jones is the former singer of "Killswitch Engaged", and is the current cocalist of "Sion" and "Light the torch". Two bands he created after he had fought with depression and mental health issues. He is one of if not my favorite metal vocalist of all time.

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Sep
23rd
2016

Random facts #3 · 8:13pm Sep 23rd, 2016

Random fact #3: I was the first student in entire history of my high school to be named student of the month and make the honor role at the same time.

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Dec
27th
2020

My revelation! · 9:01pm Dec 27th, 2020

I was messing with a calculator a while ago, and I got this:

6 to the third power times three, plus six times three equals six hundred sixty-six

Or: (6×6×6)+(6×6×6)+(6×6×6)+(6+6+6)=666

Or: 3(6×6×6)+(3×6)=666

May
10th
2018

More Sunset Shimmer Facts · 11:06pm May 10th, 2018

- A kid's film once got bumped to PG-13 just because Sunset walked by in the background of a scene.
- No nude photograph of Sunset has ever been seen. Anyone who lays eyes on one goes blind from the radiance.
- Sunset's fingernails are insured for 500,000,000 dollars each. They're the only part of her body quantifiable by human currency.
- Silk sheets want to feel as soft as Sunset's skin. Bacon wants to smell as nice as her hair.

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Sep
25th
2016

Random facts #4 · 8:15pm Sep 25th, 2016

Random fact #4: I am double jointed, and can rotated both of my feet 180 degrees.

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May
19th
2017

Random Facts #96 · 9:05pm May 19th, 2017

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.

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