RadioShack has existed for over 100 years, and survived multiple bankruptcies.

Glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid, but does indeed flow.

Oil is NOT made of the liquified remains of dinosaurs. In reality, its actually decayed plant and microorganism matter. Actual flesh from dinosaurs would rot away too quickly to become oil.

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"Rare Earth Metals" are actually quite abundant. They're rare because typically, they're hard to smelt from ores, and the aforementioned ores don't occur anywhere in high densities.

Aluminum was once worth more than gold and silver during the middle ages.

Gold is highly resistant to tarnish because it rarely, if ever, bonds with any other element.

Copper is one of the best thermal conductors known to humanity.

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Apple's first attempt at creating a laptop was ultimately a flop. Their second try, however...

The Pentium 4 was known for its notorious overheating issues, and so Intel actually backtracked their technology with the advent of the Core lineup-- based on the Pentium 3, rather than 4.

Bluetooth operates over a serial interface, and is thus often easy to use as a simple wireless communication standard.

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Hot dog buns were invented by a sausage cart owner who realized that bread had an excellent use for holding hot sausage. Search it up if you'd like.

Autocorrect and phone keyboards are just as horrible as always. I had to go back through this blog and manually fix several words myself.

Humans are one of the only organisms that drink milk from other mammals daily.

Single core CPUs actually seem to run Android just fine.

In many computers now, it's no longer the CPU that limits performance, but rather the Hard Drive, the RAM, or the GPU.

Dual layer DVDs literally have two layers, with the second data layer embedded just underneath the main data layer.

USB was originally a low-speed, low-bandwidth bus.

Thunderbolt is a connection standard developed by Intel and Apple to support an external PCI-E connection.

Windows 95 brought about the beginnings of the Start Menu, Taskbar, and several other elements of the GUI that still exist in modern versions of Windows. (Windows 8 and 8.1 excluded.)

The codename used for Windows 95's beta was Chicago.

At one point in the early development of Windows 95, the Start Menu was actually three different menus, split into three buttons that were eventually merged to form the Start Menu.

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All modern x86 bases PCs can trace their roots down to the original IBM PC 5150.

IKEA is the worlds largest corporate consumer of wood, and are supplied by multiple tree farms.

iOS was originally called "iPhone OS" before being shortened.

Google Chrome was originally based on Apple's Safari browser codebase.

Socks are stinky. Especially if you wear the same pair for two weeks before washing.

Having anything sticky on the touchscreen of a phone or tablet is extremely irritating to most people.

Lasers are damaging to the eye. They're even more damaging if you have a cat nearby upon shining a laser in your eye.

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HTC was the manufacturer of the first android phone.

The 3.5mm headline jack has remained virtually unchanged for decades.

Old computers once stored data on audio cassettes.

Back in the 70s, a 5 megabyte hard drive was massive, and cost thousands.

Quantum computers require supercooling in order to run at all.

Pine needles have a special coating of wax to keep them from losing water, and their shape prevents snow from breaking off branches. (In most cases.)

Lithium-ion batteries must have special charging circuits, as directly applying unregulated voltage to the terminals would likely result in explosion or leakage.

Ikea uses a large percentage of the world's sustainable wood supply.

LCD screens are actually see-through. They just have a backing to mount the backlight on, making them opaque.

Neil Armstrong brought a piece of the Wright Brothers' airplane with him to the moon.

Some tablets and smartphones (and IOT devices) have a "USB OTG" certified usb-port. It stands for usb-On The Go, and works both in device mode and usb host mode, allowing for peripherals to be used in the same port as the charger, with the help of a port splitter, of course.

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The epiglottis is a tissue that directs the path of food in one's throat away from the windpipe.

Amylayse is an enzyme made in the pancreas to break down carbohydrates.

Our stomachs contain hydrochloric acid. Heartburn is caused by that acid rising up your esophagus.

The liver also creates bile salts, which aid in the process of digestion.

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It's possible to install Android on an iPhone.

Similarly, It's possible to install Windows on (x86-based) Macs, or even an Apple ][, using an x86 coprocessor card.

As part of the growing trend of building "Hackintoshes", its become increasingly easy to install MacOS on PC hardware.

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Random Facts:
Android and Mac OS X are both based on Linux.

Bill Gates was once a well-known hater of open source software. That was back when it took weeks of hand-coded programs to equal a decent salary. Times have changed, and now Microsoft is pretty much kissing up to Linux and a buttload of other Open Source Software vendors.

The Pentium 4 is quite well known for overheating, so Intel dumped the lineup, and used the Pentium 3 designs to create the Core brand.

Bananas, and pretty much anything containing potassium, are all mildly radioactive.

The reason why Pepto-Bismol is called that is because one of its ingredients is the element Bismuth.

Aluminum was once valued higher than gold and silver before mining and refining techniques were improved.

Vinegar + copper + alumimum = battery.

The original iPod had a hard drive instead of flash memory.

Microphones often contain small particles of carbon for better sound.

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Those dark marks on the moon aren't just craters, but may possibly be ancient flows of magma from the satellite's early years.

Astronomy is one of the oldest forms of science in the world.

It's believed that organic matter and water may have arrived to Earth via collisions during the planets' formation, with evidence showing that there is indeed some form or another of organic matter on various asteroids and comets.

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I'm feeling bored 'cause I've been trying to watch Youtube vids for the past half an hour only to get horrid network lag, so let's just get into this, since it takes considerably less bandwidth to post a blog than to buffer a video.

As devices have gotten smaller and smaller, they've often become far less upgradable, or even repairable in many cases. *cough cough* Apple *cough cough*

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Dogs evolved from wolves.

An experiment was carried out on foxes to recreate the domestication of wolves. The end result were foxes that acted like puppies.

Not a fact for sure, but from what I can tell, most cats seem to have an ingrained hatred for all things, living and nonliving.

Dogs make very good burgler alarms, considering just how little it takes to set them off barking.

It's fine to put Walmart goldfish in cold water. They're perfectly fine with it.

USB add-on cards using VIA chipsets are notorious for causing older systems to hang or crash upon boot. Hardware enthusiasts, (myself included) would recommend using either any integrated USB chipset available on-board, or, if USB 2.0 is desired, use a card with an NEC chipset.

USB includes a "legacy mode" that allows for newer devices to be detected by older software.

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Just wondering, should I replace the Random Facts blog with a "Daily Discussion" blog? I could still include the random facts, but in addition, I could use the blogs to talk about various things going on and stuff like that.

Bulls aren't triggered by the color red. It's actually motion that sets them off.

9 volt batteries, when deconstructed, are often actually made up of a 6-pack of "AAAA" batteries, which are smaller and thinner than conventional AAA batteries.

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