- There was a third Apple founder. Ronald Wayne sold his 10% stake for $2300 in 1976.He co-founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, providing key administrative oversight for the new venture. He soon, however, gave up his share of the new company for a total of $2,300.
- The pleasant smell of first rain after a long time (called petrichor) is actually due to geosmin produced by bacteria present in wet soil. It is also attributed to an oil released by plants to keep themselves from drying out.
- A British man changed his name to Tim Pppppppppprice to make it harder for telemarketers to pronounce.
The pissed off 49-year-old Tim Price was so fed up by telemarketers who bothered him day and night that he decided to change his name. In a desperate attempt to make them stop calling his private phone number, he changed his name to Tim Pppppppppprice by adding extra nine Ps to his last name. He pronounces his name Tim Per-per-per-per-per-per-p
- Fat Man was initially intended to be dropped on Kokura, Japan.
It was redirected to be dropped over Nagasaki just because the bomber pilot (Charles Sweeney) was unable to get visual confirmation of the target as the weather was cloudy!
- Have you ever wondered why every photo taken from phone or camera goes to a folder named DCIM?
DCIM stands for “Digital Camera Images.”The DCIM folder and its layout comes from DCF (Design rule for Camera File system), a standard created back in 2003. DCF is a specification created by JEITA, the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association. The DCF specification lists many different requirements with a goal to assure interoperability (run programs on different interfaces).For example: the file system of an appropriately formatted devices — for example, an SD card plugged into a digital camera — must be FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, or exFAT. The goal is for digital cameras and their memory cards to be compatible with each other.
- Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right while women’s shirts have the buttons on the left
Because when buttons first appeared in the 17th century, they were seen only on garments of the wealthy. At that time it was the custom for rich men to dress themselves and for women to be dressed by servants.
Having women’s shirts button from the left thus made things easier for the mostly right- handed servants who dressed them. Having men’s shirts button from the right made sense not only because most men dressed themselves, but also because a sword drawn from the left hip with the right hand would be less likely to become caught in the shirt.
- G-Mail was originally a free email service for Garfield fans!
The domain name “gmail.com” was originally used by Garfield.com to reply to fans of the comic strip “Garfield”. In June of 2005 Google bought the URL from Garfield’s website.
