Trivia
For You
Thursday January 28, 2010 |
| The first "technology" corporation to move into California's Silicon Valley was Hewlett-Packard, in 1938. Stanford University engineers Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started their company in a Palo Alto garage with $1,538. Their first product was an audio oscillator bought by Walt Disney Studios for use in the making of Fantasia. |
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| The ruby, sapphire, emerald, and aquamarine are not specific minerals. The ruby is the red and the sapphire is the blue variety of corundum. An emerald is the green variety and an aquamarine is the blue variety of beryl. |
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| According to a 1997 poll, the average person in the U.S. has felt compelled to see the movie Star Wars an astonishing 6.7 times since its 1977 release, either in theaters or on TV. |
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| Venus has no magnetic field, perhaps because of its slow rotation. It also has no satellites. |
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| Men with mustaches may be allergic to their own lip hair. That is because mustaches may harbor airborne pollens that trigger allergies. |
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