Further Exploration of the Factorium

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

I Didn't Know Zat! # 6

1. The name Polo is derived from the Tibetan word "pulu", meaning ball.


2. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was named the Time Magazine Person of the Year for 2010. He is the second youngest person to get this distinction after Charles Lindbergh, the first Man of the Year back in 1927.


3. The Wikileaks website claims to have been "founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and start-up company technologists, from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa" back in 2006.

Graphic of hourglass, coloured in blue and grey; a circular map of the western hemisphere of the world drips from the top to bottom chamber of the hourglass

4. 14 one-year calendars make a Perpetual calendar.


5. Mary Shelly's 'Frankenstein' had the subtitle 'Or The Modern Prometheus'.


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