301 Useless Facts

1. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
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301. The past-tense of the English word “dare” is “durst”.
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What is Lorem Ipsum?

It’s a dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.
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Internet may be ‘full’ by 2010

Booming demand for Internet services combined with insufficient infrastructure investment could leave the Web vulnerable to brown outs within three years. Nemertes Research said Internet providers need to invest from $42 billion to $55 billion — or 60% to 70% more than current plans call for — to stave off interruptions to the digital economy […]

Invention Of the Year: iPhone

The iPhone is pretty. Most high-tech companies don’t take design seriously. They treat it as an afterthought. Window-dressing. But one of Jobs’ basic insights about technology is that good design is actually as important as good technology. All the cool features in the world won’t do you any good unless you can figure out how […]

Ice-free Arctic could be here in 23 years

The Arctic ice cap has collapsed at an unprecedented rate this summer and levels of sea ice in the region now stand at a record low, scientists said last night. Experts said they were “stunned” by the loss of ice, with an area almost twice as big as Britain disappearing in the last week alone. […]

Most expensive ham in the world

Spaniards are nothing if not dedicated eaters.

Now, hard-core foodies are drooling over the prospect of something truly superlative from Spain, at least in price: a salt-cured ham costing about $2,100 per leg, or a cruel $160 per pound.
via Yahoo news!

How to Steal Great Content Ideas

“There’s nothing new under the sun,” is a saying I’m sure you’re familiar with. Yet how is it that we’re dazzled daily by the exciting and unique perspectives of emerging new voices?
Bad artists copy. Great artists steal. ~Pablo Picasso
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If you hit a diamond with a hammer, it will break

Hardest natural substance on earth, but if it is placed in an oven and the temperature is raised to about 763 degrees Celsius (1405 degrees Fahrenheit), it will simply vanish, without even ash remaining.
Yes, diamonds are brittle. If you hit one hard with a hammer, it will shatter

25% of plane ticket price goes to funding airstrips

The aviation fees that can account for 25 percent of your airfares are being diverted to upgrade private airports used by corporate and private jets
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Who needs Water?

One can live without food for almost a month but survive no longer than a week without water