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Fun Fact: Fake Ferraris
I just came across this article about a ring of people selling fake Ferraris. What are the police going to do with the confiscated cars? Could I have one? Read about it here.
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Fun Fact: Full Service Gas Stations — Do you tip the robot?
Gas stations in the Netherlands may soon see robots pumping their gas! Read about it here: Gas-pumping robot: what could go wrong? If you let your imagination run, you can have a little fun: Should they have a tip jar to the robot so that you can tip him? What Read more
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Fun Fact: Want a Tiger Named After Your Son?
A woman actually saved a tiger’s life with CPR! Apparently, the baby tiger was choking on a piece of meat, and the lady was able to help the keeper resuscitate the baby. As a result, they are naming the cub after her son. Read about it: Student’s mouth-to-muzzle saves tiger Read more
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Fun Fact: Expensive Tires!
How much do tires cost? How about $1400 to $6000? And, they aren’t even car tires! Check them out: Three of the Finest Bike Wheels Money Can Buy
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Fun Fact: Cell Phone Easter Eggs
Have you ever wanted a hard-boiled egg when you didn’t have a stove or a pan to boil water? Supposedly, you can hard boil an egg with cell phones. Sorry, I didn’t make sure that this works — I prefer the standard method, but here is the article anyway: http://www.wymsey.co.uk/wymchron/cooking.htm
Computers
Fun Fact: Cows Power Laptops
According to InfoWorld, the one-laptop-per-child is looking to cows for energy to power their laptop in developing countries. From the looks of it, they are attaching the cows to a generator that will produce the power the laptop needs. OLPC experiments with cow-powered laptops … seriously
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Fun Fact: Programmer’s Day
It does not look like there is a strong concensus, but some consider today (9/13/2007) as programmer’s day. From what I understand, today is the 256th day. 256 is a number many computer geeks see a lot because computers work with binary numbers. Wikipedia apparently had an article at one Read more
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Fun Fact: Facial Image Search
According to this article, you can use Google Search to search for just pictures with faces in them. Here is another article along the same lines. According to the second article, the option is in the advanced search options now.
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Fun Fact: Country Secrets must be Kept Underground
Strategic Security Blog points out that a secret Chinese submarine was spotted by one of Google’s satellites. So, anyone with access to Google maps could view that submarine. With today’s level of technology, anything sitting above ground out in the open is going to get photographed at least by a Read more
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Fun Fact: Vipers Help Stroke Victims
According to a Nursing Spectrum article, venom from the Malayan Viper can help stroke victims. The article says that treating strokes immediately is very important. But, this new drug called Viprinex can help increase the “window of opportunity”. Their website has a nice little video that shows how the vipers Read more