Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

In 1947, American computer engineer Howard Aiken said that just six electronic digital computers would satisfy the computing needs of the United States.

That may come true in our lifetime.

Here's a good one: Did you know Some insects’ eyes have hair?

@vegaseat Mythbusters proved the 7 times dry paper folding thing as busted! OIS (Out of Interests Sake)

If you could theoretically fold a 1mm thick piece of paper 100 times it would be thicker than that observable diameter of the universe!!!!

See here for more info: http://therealsasha.wordpress.com/2011/08/

Three of the first five presidents—John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe—died on July 4. Calvin Coolidge, on the other hand, was born on the Fourth, as was Malia Obama.

If all of the people on Facebook were considered a country, it would be the world's third largest.

There is only one station on the London Underground that does not have any letters from the Word Mackerel in it. I'll give you a few hours to find it....

Took me 15 mins and a bit of C# :)

At least in the USA July 2012 was the hottest in recorded history.

The direct inspiration for Labor Day occurred in New York City on Tuesday, September 6, 1882, when 10,000 workers left their jobs to parade through Manhattan demanding an eight-hour workday. The organizers called it "Artisans' Day" and encouraged workers in other cities to follow. The practice spread across the country within a few years.

Tobacco kills more Americans than AIDS, drugs, homicides, fires, and auto accidents combined.

A single billing system with a good computer system. And a good portion of the waste (I'd like to know how much) is drained out of the system as profit.

researchers reported Sept. 5 in the journal PLoS ONE that black mustard gives off a specific scent when large cabbage white butterflies (Pieris brassicae), as they are called, lay eggs on it. This odor both repels other pregnant butterflies from laying more eggs on the plant and attracts two species of parasitic wasps, Trichogramma brassicae and Cotesia glomerata. The wasps swoop in and attack the butterfly eggs and the caterpillars that have hatched from them, the researchers said. This defense mechanism prevents a colony of caterpillars from feasting on its leaves. (In return, the wasps parasitize, or live off, these eggs.)

From NYTimes.com

Bradley Birkenfeld, a former banker at UBS, recently completed a 2.5-year prison sentence for conspiring with a wealthy California developer to evade United States income taxes.

But Mr. Birkenfeld, 47, has a lot to show for his time and effort: The Internal Revenue Service acknowledged Tuesday that information he provided was so helpful he would receive a $104 million whistle-blower award for revealing the secrets of the Swiss banking system.

Divulging the schemes that UBS used to encourage American citizens to dodge their taxes, Mr. Birkenfeld led to an investigation that has greatly diminished Switzerland’s status as a secret haven for American tax cheats and allowed the United States Treasury to recover billions in unpaid taxes.

In addition to the $780 million that the Swiss bank paid in 2008 to avoid criminal prosecution, the bank turned over account information regarding 4,700 American clients.

The unprecedented disclosure of Swiss banking information — which caused a fierce political debate in Switzerland before ultimately winning approval from the country’s parliament — set off such a panic among wealthy Americans that more than 14,000 of them joined a tax amnesty program. I.R.S. officials say the amnesty has helped them recover more than $5 billion in unpaid taxes.