Excel, SAP, Oracle & automation tips — plus wacky facts
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India has the second-lowest sleep quality in the world. This evidence-based guide explains the biology of sleep, the specific disruptors affecting Indians (late dinners,…
Read article →Most pencils are yellow because a premium brand painted its pencil that way in the late 1880s and rivals copied it. What is documented,…
Read article →On 26 June 1974 a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum became the first product sold by scanning a UPC barcode. How barcodes work…
Read article →Yellow, green, black-and-white and orange milestones tell you what kind of road you are on in India — national highway, state highway, district road…
Read article →"OK" started as a joke abbreviation for "oll korrect" in 1830s Boston newspapers and was saved from fading away by a presidential campaign. The…
Read article →Why the letters on your keyboard are in such a strange order: typewriter jams, telegraph operators, a famous patent and why nobody switched even…
Read article →Why Excel stops at 1,048,576 rows and column XFD, why old Excel had 65,536 rows, why numbers lose digits after 15, why FAT32 files…
Read article →Clocks turn "clockwise" because of sundials: in the northern hemisphere a sundial's shadow sweeps left to right. The short history of why every clock…
Read article →The floppy disk save icon outlived the floppy disk by decades. Where the 3.5-inch disk came from, why it became the save symbol, and…
Read article →Where Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V came from — from Xerox PARC’s modeless editing to the Apple Lisa and Windows keyboards we use today.
Read article →Incognito mode makes you anonymous, you must drain your battery, more megapixels means better photos — ten common tech myths, busted.
Read article →Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it. You can make more money, but you cannot make…
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