Does anyone else find themselves recalling random facts for no apparent reason? Like,

Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and lost

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      California Cows Don’t Dance the Fandango

      Steps for laser printing:

      Cleaning, Charging, Drawing, Developing, Transferring, Fusing

      I’ve known this for over 20 years and never used it. Thanks catchy mnemonics!

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      Are you making a crossover cable or installing it for the government? Those are the only places that I know of that A is used regularly. Nearly everywhere else uses B in my experience.

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        Are you making the assumption I am from North America?

        Every place I have worked in Australia and Europe uses green first.

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        Really? I wasn’t sure which one I “should” use so I looked at a cable that I had laying around (probably came with a cable modem or something?) and was able to see the wire colors through the connector and it was A. So that’s what I’ve been using when making patch cables or wiring my house.

        I guess my question is what’s your experience with where B is used? Mostly I’m just curious, it probably doesn’t really matter for me since I only do networking work in my house.

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          It shouldn’t actually matter. It’s strictly by convention that the US (and probably North America; unclear about beyond) almost exclusively uses B. The big risk is that people will assume it’s B, and the other end is B, which can cause issues when they e.g. replace a receptacle and make all of your connections crossover. But even that shouldn’t matter much these days.

          There’s also some very limited issues switching from A to B on the same line (A in wall, B in patch cable), but this is very rare. If you saw A, it was probably either a crossover, or you live in a place that uses A.

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    Seth McFarlane slept in one morning and missed his plane home. Little did he know that this exact plane hit the World Trade Center.

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      Laser is no longer an acronym. It’s now an anacronym, which means it’s its own word (despite originally being an acronym)

      Source: Wikipedia

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      TIL - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

      That reminds me, so is SCUBA, RADAR and MODEM…I miss the old History Channel shows, especially Modern Marvels

      SCUBA: Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (Blew my mind for some reason when I learned that)
      RADAR: Radio Detection and Ranging (I’ve watched alot of WWII documentaries)
      MODEM: Modulation Demodulation (I’ve worked in tech)

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      Also, Lithuania is really good at making the fancy ones, like ones for research, variable frequency ones, femtosecond ones, etc.

      I had to look it up, but we’re #13 by global export value (not counting laser diodes)

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      Orcas are a natural predator of everything that his the ocean. Fun fact, orcas have been known to toy with seals by catapulting them with their tails. I believe I remember seeing at least one baby seal got seventy feet in the air before returning to the sea (and its inevitable death).

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    2 facts about the CMOS battery on a motherboard: CMOS stands for “complimentary metal oxide semiconductor”. Its a 2032 watch battery.

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      Also, the 2032 numbering indicates its physical size: it’s 20mm x 3.2mm. There are for example 2025’s (like in my car remote) that are 20mm x 2.5mm.

      And CMOS refers to what the battery was powering on the motherboard (a small amount of CMOS static RAM) rather than anything about the battery itself. I don’t know if motherboards still use any static RAM, the batteries might only be there to power the clock these days, making the name just a historical convention.

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        It goes beyond button batteries too. Lots of batteries use the same system. For instance, many flashlights run off of 18650 cells.

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    -All of the planets in the solar system can fit between the earth and the moon -Stoplights detect your presence with an electromagnetic field using wires and not pressure -There is a receiver above stoplights that EMS vehicles can trigger to change the light red for everyone -We left astronaut poop on the moon -The numbers on a toaster are not always in minutes -Most common mold is not dangerous when ingested or inhaled unless you are allergic -Celeste Tea was founded and made by a cult, maybe still is -Christian Science had laws passed in the majority of states in the 80s that prevented prosecution of child abuse due to religious practices -The statistical value of a human life in the US is 10 million at dollars -Jellyfish reproduce and are birthed as polyps on the ocean floor -The chiral version of the sugar molecule would taste identical to sugar but is indigestible, we have no practical ways to produce it though afaik -Only one president has failed to release his tax documents -There are multiple US presidents who were likely gay

    I’ll stop there, and yes these facts do rotate through my head for no real reason, they’re just fun!

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    Male bedbugs have a knife-like penis. To have sex, they stab the females in the thorax with it because the females don’t have genitalia. The semen is then injected directly into the female’s main body cavity for insemination

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    How to get all kremkoins in Donkey Kong Country 2, through a cheat:

    • Enter the cabin with the map and the life balloon. Leave without touching anything.
    • Collect the banana bunch over the pirate crocodile. Go back to the cabin, now pick the life.
    • Repeat the above. You’ll see a kremkoin over the map. Pick it and you got 75 kremkoins.

    In no moment you can touch the two lone bananas close to the entrance of the cabin.

    …it has been decades since I played this game, and I almost never used the cheat above (it’s less fun than finding all bonus stages). Why do I still remember this?

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      I still remember the cheat for the first game. Down Y Down Down Y when cranky appears in the title to play bonus stages.

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        I remember this one too! There was also B A↓B↑↓↓Y (bad buddy) to switch when you wanted in 2P, instead of waiting until the arsehole playing with you to switch it.

        Plus LRR LRR LR LR for DKC3. Then you’d insert a cheat and… I don’t remember them. Damn.

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    Karl Marx got drunk one night and, after being kicked out of a bar in London where he got drunk, went around London and almost got arrested sabotaging the lamp posts with rocks with his colleagues who were also drunk.

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    The buttons on suit jackets are a holdover from a time that buttons were new, and therefore fashionable. Well to do sorts had buttons all over their suits, even in places that would be considered silly these days.

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      When buttons were new and therefore fashionable? I feel like buttons predate suits by a wide margin.

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      Similar fact - ties, as in neck or bow, are the only common men’s clothing item that serve no practical purpose.