Fact of the day...In Final Fantasy Legend II (1990, Game Boy), drug dealers were originally selling opium in the story, but Nintendo's strict U.S. censorship rules forced a change. They became banana peddlers instead. The shady back-alley "drug" trade? Just exotic fruit.
Fact of the day...RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999) was almost entirely coded by one person, Chris Sawyer, and about 99% of it was written in hand-crafted x86 assembly language
Fact of the day...Dell quietly pioneered lithium-ion laptop batteries in 1994. Before that, most portables used heavier, less efficient nickel-cadmium or nickel-metal hydride packs that suffered from "memory effect" and shorter life.
Fact of the day...The first trackball was invented in 1946 for secret British Navy radar to track aircraft, 20+ years before computer mice existed.
Fact of the day....The first spam email (1978) was sent by Gary Thuerk to about 400 ARPANET users advertising DEC computers. It outraged people so much that it basically invented the concept of "netiquette" complaints overnight.
Fact of the day... In 1938, Samsung was founded as a small grocery trading store in South Korea. Their primary business was exporting local produce, dried Korean fish, and their own brand of noodles. They didn't even enter the electronics industry until the late 1960s
Fact of the day....Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins!
While dolphins need to come up for air every 8 to 10 minutes, a sloth can hold its breath underwater for 40 minutes.
Fact of the day:
The entire internet is still coordinated partly by a small nonprofit called "Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers".
They help manage domain names and key infrastructure that keep the web working.
The Octopus has three hearts:
❤️ One heart pumps blood to the rest of the body.
❤️❤️ Two hearts pump blood specifically to the gills to help with oxygen.
Even more interesting: when an octopus swims, the main heart actually stops beating, which is why octopuses prefer crawling along the ocean floor instead of swimming.
Before becoming Alienware, the company was called Saqr Computers. They later changed the name to better match their alien-technology theme.
