Useless InformationDid you know that crabs wee through their eyes? That maidenhair moss is so called because Anglo-saxons thought it looked like pubes? That Albanians have 17 different words for moustache? Astound us with your utterly useless and obscure knowledge.
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chthonic, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 14:48)
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Coke bottles...Contrary to what COUN7:z3r0 says, coke bottles filled with water in your garden deter neither cats nor dogs from using it as a lavatory. In fact, dogs will use the water bottle as something to cock a leg against.
The first _documented_ computer bug was a moth, as pointed out earlier; it was removed from relay contacts in the Mark 1 computer at MIT, and the logbook (with moth) now rests in the Smithsonian. However, the log entry says something about the "first physical computer bug", implying that the term bug was already in use. One suggestion I have seen is that bad telegraph communications were attributed to "bugs eating the wire". But the high-speed telegraph key was also called a "bug"... which is confusing. Could it be that there was a bug in the bug?
(, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 0:17, Reply)
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