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January 12, 2011

[size=10pt][font=comic sans ms][b]1.[/b] A lexical gap (or lacuna) is when there is no word in another language to describe a concept.Example you may be more familiar with is the lack of an English plural for “you” without resorting to colloquialisms like y’all, youse, you guys, etc. Also, apparently, in parts of Pennsylvania they say "yinz".

[b]2.[/b] All advertisements for the iPhone, show a time of 9:42.Believe it or not, there is actually a logical reason for this! Whenever Apple releases a new product, they like to have the big reveal occur 40 minutes into each presentation. Therefore, the images onscreen show a time of 9:40...plus a minute or two because Apple knows the lead-up will never take EXACTLY 40 minutes.
Unlike the iPhone, the iPad ads all show a time of 9:41.

[b]3.[/b] Director James Cameron used to be a school bus driver and wrote many scripts in his leisures.

[b]4.[/b] The entire rendering of Avatar reportedly requires over 1 Petabyte of storage space according to BBC’s Clickbits, which is the equivalent of 500 harddrives of 2TB each. That’s equal to a 32 year long MP3 file.

[b]5.[/b] Google was once named “BackRub.” Creators Larry Page and Sergey Brin met while at Stanford University and collaborated on a web search engine called “BackRub.” They eventually came up with the name “Google,” which was based on the word “googol” - a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros!

[b]6.[/b] You can teach yourself to control your dreams.The method is called “lucid dreaming,” which means that you’re aware of the fact that you’re dreaming. That way you have the freedom to choose how your dreams go.

[b]7.[/b] In 2004, Donald Trump trademarked his catchphrase "You're fired". So, No more your Boss can you use it.

[b]8.[/b] Moonbows are rainbows produced by light reflected off the surface of the moon.

[b]9.[/b] There are more cells in the human body than there are people living on Earth.

[b]10.[/b] Amar Gopal Bose used to be a assistant professor at MIT, MA. He is the founder and chairman of Bose Corporation.[/font][/size]