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More than 8,000 people have graduated from McDonald's Hamburger University with a degree in "Hamburgerology". The continent with the fewest flowering plants is Antarctica. It is illegal in Alaska to look at a moose from the window of any aircraft. In Wisconsin it is illegal to fire a gun during your wife's orgasm. A group of donkeys is called a pace. In Vermont, women can't wear false teeth without written permission from their husbands. License plates in New Hampshire contain the motto "Life Free or Die". All these license plates are made in prison. In Massachusetts, it is illegal to have a light switch in the bathroom. Members of Walibri tribe in central Australia greet each other by shaking penises. The ingredient Lactose found in fresh milk is eventually devoured by bacteria, causing the sour taste. A device attached to a car's exhaust system to reduce pollution is called a catalytic converter. Rich people in Russia ofte...

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In the UK, adult characters on cereal packets look straight ahead, while children's characters look down at a 9.6 degree angle. Sloths only defecate about once a week. A Wiltshire town is confirmed as the longest continuous settlement in the United Kingdom, according to a 2014 study. There can be up to 30 security features on a single bank note. The code A113 is implanted in every Pixar movie. In 2014, Sony developed a new storage tape that is able to hold up to 185 terabytes of data per cartridge. A decade before the Internet became mainstream, French citizens were interacting via Minitel, a computer network open to anyone with a telephone. Of all the religions, Hinduism celebrates the most festivals. Hindus spend 39 days a year recognizing the birthdays and milestones of hundreds of deities. The world's biggest hailstone fell in 2010 in USA. It had a diameter of 20.3 cm and weighed 878 grams. Eating an apple a day can boost sexual pleasure in healthy wom...

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AMOLED   Stands for active-matrix organic light-emitting diode. A new type of display technology used in mobile devices and televisions, and in the monitors of some digital cameras. Has several advantages over LCD, including using less power. Aperture  Behind the lens of your camera is a movable circular iris which opens and closes to control the amount of light falling on the sensor. This is usually controlled by the light meter, although some cameras have a manual aperture control. Altering the aperture also changes the depth of field. Artefacts  When an image is stored in your camera's memory it has to be compressed to fit, usually into a JPEG file, and in the process some information is inevitably lost. When the image is uncompressed for viewing, noise creeps in and appears as angular blocks in the image, which are known as artefacts. Autofocus  Almost all digital cameras have automatic focusing. There are essentially two types: contrast detection, used...