Happy Birthday, Donut!

Did you know the donut turned 164 years old on June 22nd? The story goes that a Dutch sea captain invented the pastry in 1847 out of necessity. He was eating a piece of cake and a storm suddenly hit, so he impaled the treat on the steering wheel to save it for later. And voila! We've got a donut. But with age comes eccentricity.





(source: Yahoo!)

iPad

The iPad, back in April 2010, when it first released, had more of a usage share than the Galaxy Tab has today. More for that matter, when the iPad was barely a month old, it had almost as much usage as the Galaxy Tab, Motorola Xoom and the Blackberry Playbook, combined!


[Source: Mashable]

Happy Birthday Apple!

Our beloved Apple Inc. celebrated it's 35th year anniversary two days ago on April 1st (no, this isn't an April Fools joke).

When Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne first set up their small company, it was still called Apple Computer. 35 years later, it's the most valuable tech company, with a market capitalization with $317 billion and one of their devices in your hands, right now! (Where would you be without Angry Birds?)

This is of course all thanks to the "heart and soul" of Apple, as Mashable puts it. Steve Jobs turned Apple into a billion dollar company with first the iPod, then iPhone and the iPad.

Thank you Apple, thank you Steve Jobs!

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Pizza in the United States of America

Because of the Italian immigrants, Pizza debuted in the United States of America in the late 19th century and was first sold in cities with a bigger amount of Italian immigrants (e.g. Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, etc) in the streets of Italian neighborhoods and it didn't take too long until little cafes and grocery stores started to sell their own pizzas. In fact, soon enough, there were little restaurants that specialised in making pizzas, which were called pizzerias.

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The History of Pizza

Since the Neolithic Age-also known as the New Stone Age-there have been foods very similar to pizza. There is a flat bread called plakous in Ancient Greece. This bread was served with herbs, garlic, and onions as toppings. Also, Darius the Great, a Persian king, had soldiers who baked flat bread on their shields and covered it with cheese and dates.

How these flat bread dishes turned to pizza, was the use of tomato. In the 16th century, tomato was brought, from the Americas, to Europe where it was first believed to be poisonous. Sometime later, in the late 18th century, in Naples, it wasn't uncommon for the poor to have their yeast-based flat bread with tomato. Soon enough, the new dish attracted tourists to Naples.

Alexander Dumas writes in his work called Le Corricolo that, in winter, Naples pizza is topped with oil, tallow, lard, anchovies, cheese, or tomatoes.

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Anthony Levandowski

Anthony Levandowski built a modified Prius that delivered pizza without a person inside.

Thomas Edison: DID NOT Invent The Light Bulb

Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb, or held the first patent to the modern design of the light bulb.

Apparently, the we gave the esteemed Mr. Edison credit for the invention solely because he owned a power company, later known as General Electric, and a light bulb is just a bulb without a source of electricity to light it. In reality, light bulbs used as electric lights existed 50 years prior to Thomas Edison's 1879 patent date in the U.S.


Additionally, Joseph Swan, a British inventor, obtained the first patent for the same light bulb in Britain one year prior to Edison's patent date. Swan even publicly unveiled his carbon filament light bulb in New Castle, England a minimum of 10 years before Edison shocked the world with the announcement that he invented the first light bulb. Edison's light bulb, in fact, was a carbon copy of Swan's light bulb.







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