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Betteridge’s Law of Headlines states that “Any headline that ends with a question mark can be answered with no.”

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The northern leopard frog has a curious way of swallowing its meals: it temporarily contracts its eyeballs into its head to help push the prey down its throat.

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The old wives’ tale of “storm babies”, babies born as a result of large storms, actually has some merit. A scientific review of delivery data and local barometric pressure found that sudden changes in barometric pressure increased the chances of rupture of the fetal membrane and the start of the delivery process.

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Even if you have incredibly sharp hearing, there’s one thing you can’t hear—the sounds created by your body such as your heartbeat, the movement of your muscles and tendons, and your eyes moving in their sockets. Unless, that is, you’re suffering from a very rare condition called superior canal dehiscence (SCDS) wherein unusual thinness or a complete absence of the part of the temporal bone overlying the superior semicircular canal of the vestibular system (either congenital or caused by head trauma) alters your hearing such that you can’t filter out the internal sounds of your own body.

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Host-Based Modem

A Host-Based Modem is a modem that uses a computer’s processor to perform some of its communications processing and allows less expensive modem circuits to be used.

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The brand name of Leatherman multitools and knives isn’t just a manly trademark, it’s actually the name of one of the company’s cofounders, Timothy S. Leatherman.

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Host-Based Printer

A Host-Based Printer is a printer that relies on a computer’s processor to perform all page processing and generate printable pages.

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Only two U.S. states have elevation points below sea level, California (lowest elevation, -279 feet/-85 meters) and Louisiana (lowest elevation, -8 feet/-2.4 meters).

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Hold Down Timer

A Hold Down Timer is a router function that prevents a router from being updated for a specified length of time (in seconds) in order to give other nodes time to reconfigure and prevent a routing loop.

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There is no blue pigmentation (in the iris or ocular fluid) in blue eyes—the blue color is created by “Rayleigh scattering”, the same scientific phenomenon that makes the sky seem blue.

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HLR

An HLR (short for Home Location Register) is a database that contains pertinent subscriber information for a particular mobile network.

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Although hippos are fiercely territorial while in water, when they leave the water each evening to graze, they drop their territorial behavior and graze alone, leaving other hippos to do the same.

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Functional Specification

A Functional Specification is a formal description that is used as the blueprint for the design of a software system. Details in a Functional Specification can include: the software system’s function/purpose, structure documentation, implementation details, procedures, a description of the software from a user’s perspective, etc.

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Although there aren’t many of them, there are tribes of people around the world (such as those found deep in the Amazon forest) that are considered “anumeric”. They don’t have words for numeric concepts beyond things like “one”, “a few”, or “some” and, as a result, they struggle to differentiate and recall quantities as low as four.

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Grok

Grok is a slang term used to describe having an intuitive and/or thorough understanding of a particular subject.

The term is from Robert A. Heinlein’s sci-fi novel “Stranger in a Strange Land“.

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The same woman, Kathryn Beaumont, provided both the voice acting for Alice and Wendy in the original Disney films Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953) as well as their characters, a half century later, in the 2002 video game Kingdom Hearts.

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FTTC

FTTC (short for Fiber-To-The-Curb) refers to the installation of optical fiber to the point where it reaches a node (junction box) that is within 1,000 feet of a home or business. Coaxial cable or another medium is used to bridge the remaining distance between the node (junction box) and the building in question.

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The first country (colony) to gain independence from the United Kingdom was the United States of America in 1783; the last country (colony) to gain independence was the Nation of Brunei in 1984

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Fulfillment

In the context of business and electronic commerce, Fulfillment (a.k.a. Order Fulfillment) refers to the complete process of delivering a product to a customer.

Offline/online point of sale -> processing the payment -> packing -> shipping -> final delivery to the customer

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The elementary school setting of the 1999 survival-horror PlayStation game Silent Hill is a subtle homage to the set of the 1990 film Kindergarten Cop. The school in the video game includes numerous replications of posters, doorways, cabinets, and other references that correspond directly to the set of the film.

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FTA

FTA (short for Failure To Acquire) is a term used to describe a biometric system’s failure to capture and/or extract usable (identifying) information from a biometric sample.

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People suffering from the sleep disorder “exploding head syndrome” (also known as “episodic cranial sensory shock”) experience an unusual type of auditory hallucination as they fall asleep, wake up, or both. The hallucination takes the form of hearing loud imagined noises, such as a bomb exploding, a gunshot, or a cymbal crash. There is currently no identified cause nor has an effective treatment been identified through clinical trials.

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Direct-Connect Modem

A Direct-Connect Modem is a type of modem that directly connects to a telephone line using modular connectors instead of an acoustic coupler.

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The smallest Indian reservation in the United States is the Seminole Trust Land in Broward County, Florida at only 1.279 acres.

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Dipole Antenna

A Dipole Antenna (meaning “two poles”) is the simplest type of antenna and is made of an electrically conducting wire or rod that is split at the center with an insulator. Dipole Antennas are one-half the length of the maximum wavelengths they will generate.

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“In the Hall of the Mountain King” is one of the most recognizable classical compositions in the world but, ironically, was composed by Edvard Grieg as a satire intended to reek of cowpats, ultra-Norwegianism, and “to-thyself-be-enough-ness”.

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Dingbats

Dingbats is a font consisting of various symbols such as arrows, diamonds, hearts, pointing fingers, stars, etc. that can be inserted into documents.

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The capes worn by the Night’s Watch in Game of Thrones are actually IKEA rugs—costume designers started with the cheap rugs, then cut, shaved, dyed, and distressed them to give them an authentic medieval appearance.

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Diopter Adjustment

A Diopter Adjustment is a small dial/knob connected to the viewfinder on a camera that allows an individual to adjust the viewfinder’s focus/sharpness to provide a clear, focused view of the “object” being photographed.

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The first pilot for Star Trek: The Original Series, entitled “The Cage”, was completed in 1965 and, although segments of the pilot’s footage were later incorporated into the first-season two-parter “The Menagerie”, it was not broadcast in its complete form until late 1988.

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Dilberted

Dilberted is a slang term used to refer to an individual who has been exploited, oppressed, and/or otherwise treated badly by their boss at work. (Derived from the comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams.)

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Despite the long-standing belief that Orson Wells’ infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast incited panic in listeners, the panic is a myth—a myth that was heavily promoted and perpetuated by newspapers in a bid to discredit radio as an emerging entertainment and news format.

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Digital Footprint

Digital Footprint refers to the “trail” or “footprints” an individual leaves online such as: forum registrations, emails, email attachments, videos, digital images, text/chat/”social media” messages, webpages logged into, links clicked, webpages downloaded, programs/movies watched, online financial transactions, and other forms of transmitted information.

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Foreign accent syndrome is a rare condition in which patients, thanks to neurological or muscular damage caused by a stroke, head trauma, or other event, develop speech patterns that are perceived as sounding like a foreign accent to listeners. In this way, a person speaking American English might sound “French” or “German” to the listener, but they have not gained any knowledge of the language, they simply have altered speaking patterns as a result of the precipitating event that mimics traits of that language.

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Click-Through

Click-Through refers to the process of clicking on a website or search engine ad and going to the advertiser’s website.

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Sand cats, Felis margarita, are found throughout regions in Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East, but studying them is particularly frustrating for researchers since the cats’ highly adapted paws—which are covered with wiry, black fur to protect the pads of their paws from scorching desert sand—render their footprints almost invisible.

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Click-And-Mortar

Click-And-Mortar (a.k.a. Clicks And Mortar, Bricks And Clicks) refers to a business that has a traditional, offline retail presence as well as an online one.