1. The Internet Movie Database originally started in 1990, with a group of guys trying to make a list of the actresses with the best eyes. And it just grew from there.
2. The “X” in “Merry Xmas” is actually the Greek letter Chi, which is an abbreviation for Christ in Greek.
(Chi is pronounced like “kai”.)
3. The first ever cell phone call was placed on April 3rd, 1973, when one of the engineers at Motorola who built the phone walked out onto the street and called a competitor at AT&T to brag.
4. The guy who invented
“Pokemon”
got the idea for a game where you collected rare monsters because he collected bugs as a kid.
Here is today’s bonus fact:
5. There’s no word for “blue” in ancient Greek.
(
Giganews
/
Wikipedia
/
Bloomberg
/
Time
/
Clarke’s World
)
