Curiosities

For most people this may sound like kid’s stuff.  But mind you I have seen people misusing — usually interchanging — these seemingly common abbreviations.  And I’ll bet the house you cannot tell me on the fly what i.e. and e.g. stand for. I recently found a fun and easy way to remember the proper...
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Have you heard somebody telling you this?  Or maybe it was you telling it to somebody else? We always see this happening, especially to people we consider experts in their field.  They can solve the most complex problems of others but they seem to fail in solving the same problems when it becomes their own....
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Have you heard about a couple in the US who allegedly lost custody of their children simply because they chose Nazi-inspired names for their kids? How do Adolf Hitler, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation, and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie for your children’s names sound to you?  Well, this American couple actually likes this unmistakably Nazi-inspired names a lot.  And...
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The oldest recorded  and verified age of a person at the time of death is 122 years. Jeanne Calment of France was exactly 122 years and 164 days old when he died on August 4, 1997. This may seem a very long time to most of us, especially considering that the average life span of...
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I just read this interesting article in HowStuffWorks, which led me to my own musings about the subject of time. Time has been a subject of curiosity for me ever since I’ve read about Albert Einstein’s theory of relatively, not that I understand any of it.  And then of course there is not a shortage of...
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Being in a crossroad of major weather systems the Philippines is visited by several weather disturbances every year.  You might think that storms are named as they arrive but they are not.  But not so.  There are already prepared names for tropical storms for years to come. Most territories, including the Philippines, have their own...
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I knew it!  Having lotsa friends is not only good for the soul, it is likewise good for the health.  And, believe it or not, there is scientific basis to this. A study conducted by researchers from the Brigham Young University in the US found a correlation between survival chances and being friendly.  Survival odds...
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Tell that to my kids!  And to their mom!  And to the millions of Land Before Time fans all over the world… and you will probably be inviting a world war. What do you mean Cera never existed? Well… that seems to be the subject matter of many online news headlines and tweets in the past...
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I am not a big Burger King fan (although I love their Whopper, Double Whopper, Whopper Jr., and Mushroom Swiss) so I don’t get to frequently visit a BK store. But I did visit the Burger King store in Robinson’s Manila a couple of times in the past 4 weeks and in both of those...
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This amazing artist’s name is Kseniya Simonova and the world apparently discovered her through the Ukraine Got Talent show. †She has since taken YouTube by a sandstorm (pun intended). I’ve seen a lot of Ms. Simonova’s “live” renditions in You Tube and I am amazed at each one. †This one has one other ingredient added...
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I saw this old Apple Ad from a featured slideshow presentation in CIO.com. †Now just imagine if this ad goes out now but for the iPod Nano? LOL. †Click here to see more old and funny tech ads. It’s important to take note though that we now find the gadgets and gizmos featured in most...
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I am sure posting the answers to the Riddles in my 10/12/2009 blog post is now entirely unnecessary. †Most people who’ve seen the riddles must have figured out the answers themselves with the next 24 hours. †Or maybe not. I solved all 10 riddles after 3 hours — but only because I cheated, LOL. †I...
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