In choosing what language you would like Facebook to appear in, users could once choose βEnglish (Pirate)β.
Unfortunately for all ye internet buccaneers, Facebook removed this option.
2020
The word βastronautβ means βstar sailorβ.
It is derived from the Greek words βastronβ, meaning βstarβ, and βnautesβ, which means βsailorβ.
2020
The name for Hewlett-Packard (A.K.A HP) was decided in a coin toss.
in order to decide between Packard-Hewlett and Hewlett-Packard, they flipped a coin.
2020
A 100 year old paternity test.
In 1927 Nan Britton claimed to have had a child with US Pres. Warren Harding. In 2015 Ancestry.com confirmed that Britton was telling the t
2020
Plagiarism Detection by using Karp-Rabin and String
Matching Algorithm Together.
Computer scientists have developed an algorithm that makes use of the well-known Karp-Rabin algorithm in order to efficiently detect plagiarism in academic work.
2015
Credited to save a billion lives and you probably don't know him.
Norman Borlaug, an American agronomist that developed new strains of crops which yielded 4 times as much food.
2020
Parrots native to Argentina Roaming around New Jersey for over 30 years..
There are now about 200 Quaker parrots living in Edgewater and other nearby towns
2019
In Switzerland, applications for citizenship are decided at the municipal level.
Hence, if your neighbors find you annoying then they can vote to deny your citizenship
2017
Michelangelo and Leonardo were commissioned to paint frescos in the same room. They hated each other, bickered, and neither completed their work..
Today you can walk around Florence seeing ghostly images of the two lost masterpieces.
People who Post their Fitness routine to Facebook are More Likely to have Psychological Problems..
According to the researchers, the primary goal is to boast about how much time you invest in your looks.
Shawshank Redemption prison converted into a tourist attraction.
The abandoned prison was purchased for $1 and converted into a tourist attraction that nets $16 million annually.
2020
in 1979, it snowed in the Sahara desert for 30 minutes.
Even Chileβs Atacama Desert(the worlds driest) experienced significant snowfall when a cold front from Antarctica made a rare trip over the Andes
2016
Sweet drinks can cause dementia.
studies have shown that people who drink one or more artificially sweetened drinks per day were almost three times more likely to develop dementia.
2017
