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Did You Know...

by Michael Motley
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Santa Claus is the patron Saint of prostitutes?

Hitler was a vegetarian

the word 'byte' is a combination of the words 'by eight'

the word 'pixel' is a combination of the words 'picture cell'





what are your useless trivia tidbits for the day.
  • Profile picture of the author Sumit Menon
    Hitler had only one testicle. (I think this was good. It cut down the chances of passing on the evil gene by half.)
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Originally Posted by Michael Motley View Post

    Santa Claus is the patron Saint of prostitutes?

    Hitler was a vegetarian

    the word 'byte' is a combination of the words 'by eight'

    the word 'pixel' is a combination of the words 'picture cell'





    what are your useless trivia tidbits for the day.
    I was always told pixel was picture element!

    As for BYTE, who knows? we have BIT for binary digit, supposedly.

    BYTE is misleading as encoding schemes often used only 7 bits, and a byte with parity was generally 9 and today could be TEN!

    Did you know that a nybble(or nibble) is a 4 bit chunk?

    Look at WORD! I always thought it meant 2 bytes. NOW, apparently, it means any multiple of eight bits that is some power of 2 that extends to the end of a usable instruction size, or address size of the computer or memory. Wikipedia is a bit less restrained: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computing)

    STILL, we agree it can be 16,32, or 64 bits. The difference is that MY definition MIGHT include 128,256,512, etc..... So a 32 bit data bus computer could have a 16 bit or 32 bit word! It MIGHT even have a 64 bit word if its data buss is multiplexed! It may even be multiplexed to a system handling 128 bit words!

    Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
    Originally Posted by Michael Motley View Post


    Hitler was a vegetarian
    I knew there was a reason I didn't like that guy! :p

    Oh, yeah...

    That whole WWII - Holocaust thing, too.
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      Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post

      I knew there was a reason I didn't like that guy! :p

      Oh, yeah...

      That whole WWII - Holocaust thing, too.
      John, as much for your sig as this post, I'm going to have a rib-eye for dinner tonight after a breakfast (now) of eggs, bacon, and sausage
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    • Profile picture of the author Sumit Menon
      Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post

      I knew there was a reason I didn't like that guy! :p

      Oh, yeah...

      That whole WWII - Holocaust thing, too.
      Lol.. your sigs are awesome!
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  • Profile picture of the author LynnM
    Originally Posted by Michael Motley View Post

    Santa Claus is the patron Saint of prostitutes?
    No wonder he always looks so jolly.
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Motley
      Originally Posted by LynnM View Post

      No wonder he always looks so jolly.
      Well this is the story.

      Santa Claus is based on St. Nicholas. St. Nicholas apparently knew of a poor man with 3 daughters and they needed a dowry he couldnt pay. If it wasnt to be paid, the women would likely not be married and likely end up working in a brothel. St. Nicholas paid it for him (and there are a couple stories as to how it was paid)

      So I'm wondering if those 3 soon to be brothel workers are the reason for Santa's famous greeting of 'Ho Ho Ho'
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      • Profile picture of the author jerome1111
        Originally Posted by Michael Motley View Post

        Well this is the story.

        Santa Claus is based on St. Nicholas. St. Nicholas apparently knew of a poor man with 3 daughters and they needed a dowry he couldnt pay. If it wasnt to be paid, the women would likely not be married and likely end up working in a brothel. St. Nicholas paid it for him (and there are a couple stories as to how it was paid)

        So I'm wondering if those 3 soon to be brothel workers are the reason for Santa's famous greeting of 'Ho Ho Ho'
        now this is a good story to know.
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    • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
      Originally Posted by LynnM View Post

      No wonder he always looks so jolly.
      :p Me likes it.
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