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In 1893, an amendment was proposed to rename the U.S. into the "United States of the Earth." The Japanese call their green traffic lights 'blue' as historically they do not distinguish between the two colors. Japanese artist Aki Inomata has created a coat made from the fur of her terrier Cielo, collected over several years. In return, she has given the dog a coat made from her own hair. A single strand of spaghetti is called spaghetto. The practice of copying and producing fakes is so entrenched in Chinese culture there's even a word for it - Shanzhai. There are four cars and eleven light posts on the back of a ten-dollar bill. In 1840, British Astronomer and Chemist, Warren de la Rue, enclosed a platinum coil in a vacuum tube and passed an electric current through it, thus creating the world's first light bulb a full 40 years before Edison. On 15 April 1912 the RMS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years ...

The technical term for your foot "falling asleep" is "taresthesia". "Pins and needles" is really called "paresthesia". Great Britain has invaded about 90% of the world's countries. There's a brand of hand sanitizer called "Maybe You Touched Your Genitals". There was a hoax that the world was ending in 1806 because someone wrote "Christ is coming" on eggs, that were later stuffed into a hen. Gary Numan is actually 13 days older than Gary Oldman. There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility. Los Angeles's full name is 'El Pueblo de Nuestra la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula'. Polyamorous people have invented a word to indicate the opposite feeling of jealousy - compersion. The Macrocilix maia moth confuses predators with wing patterns that mimic two flies eating bird poop. It even releases a pungent odor to drive home the dec...

Count the number of cricket chirps in a 15-second period, add 37 to the total, and your result will be very close to the actual outdoor Fahrenheit temperature. The volume of the Earth’s Moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean. A chameleon has a tongue that is one and a half times the length of his body. It takes the stomach an hour to break down cow’s milk. Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale. There are 22 stars in the paramount studios logo. On average, Americans eat 18 acres of pizza everyday. This common everyday occurrence composed of 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen, and 9% carbon-dioxide is called a fart. There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the Earth. It’s against the law in Kansas to catch a fish with your bare hands. According to Utah law, a husband is responsible for any criminal act that his wife commits while in his presence. Van Gogh only sold one painting whe...

The infamous Abort, Retry, Ignore message box of Windows, with no option given to close it. Found this classic and fun poem about the "Abort, Retry, Ignore" message. I have been able to trace back the source to Annoyances.org. Here it is: Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision bleary, System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor, Longing for the warmth of bed sheets, still I sat there doing spreadsheets. Having reached the bottom line I took a floppy from the drawer, I then invoked the SAVE command and waited for the disk to store, Only this and nothing more. Deep into the monitor peering, long I sat there wond'ring, fearing,
 Doubting, while the disk kept churning, turning yet to churn some more.
 But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token.
 "Save!" I said, "You cursed mother! Save my data from before!"
 One thing did the phosphors answer, only this and nothing more,
 Just, "Abort...

Whether you use a PC or a Mac, here are some great applications recommended for daily use:          3D Visualization : SketchUp, Blender          Accessories : CCleaner, WinRAR, Revo Uninstaller, Sumatra PDF          Audio Editing : Audacity          Browser : Chrome, Firefox          Browser Extensions : LastPass, Pocket          Communication : Viber, Skype          Email : Browser-based          Graphics : Photoshop, GIMP, Illustrator          Media Player : VLC Media Player, Kodi          Office Suite : Microsoft Office, iWork          Screen Capture : Camtasia          Video Editing : Windows Movie Maker, iMovie, Shotcut Nearly all of these are free, very few are not. ...

Before you spend on costly performance upgrades, try these tweaks that promise to turn your aging beige box into a digital hotrod! 1. Boost Memory Speed Being one of the major bottlenecks in overall performance, a slight boost in memory speed can have a deciding effect on how peppy your PC is. In most modern motherboards, you can adjust the system memory frequency accordingly. Most graphics-intensive software and applications show some increase in performance just by using quicker memory. You can squeeze your system's memory for more juice by lowering the time it takes to respond. Proceed to the Advanced Chipset option and try decreasing Latency Time of RAM. 2. Understand the Cache A cache, in computer terms, is nothing more than a digital scratchpad used for storing frequently accessed information. It works the same way as memory does, but its lightning fast speed set it so apart, they had to change its name. A CPU sports a dedicated cache where it jots down its calcul...

Making a Dull Image Brighter and Sharper Need to make a low-resolution image sharper and brighter? Duplicate the layer which has your image and under the Filter menu, choose Other > High Pass . Choose the radius according to the resolution of the image. Now in the Layer's palette, choose the Hard Light option under Blend Modes. You could further flatten the image by choosing Layer > Flatten Image . Now see the difference between the new and the original image! Working with the Healing Brush and Patch Tool With the Rubber Stamp tool, you can clone pixels from a sampled area and apply them to an area needing correction. However, doing so does not take care of the shadows and highlights of the flawed area. Here comes the rescue. The Healing Brush tool clones the target area by using the texture from the sampled area and then using the colours around the brush stroke as you paint over the flaw. You can sample and heal between two images but you need to make sure they ar...