Recently I asked you on Twitter and Facebook
if you wanted to see an unspecific episode with just random and hopefully interesting
facts. And the results where almost unanimously yes, so here it is. In the year 2000, computers and various machines
across the globe ran into the infamous Y2K problem or The Millennium Bug. It was an issue
that resulted from the practice of abbreviating and storing 4-digit numbers as only 2 digits.
This made the year 2000 indistinguishable from the year 1900. So when clocks around
the world went from 1999 to the year 2000 they got a little confused. The reason I bring
this up is that in 2038 something similar will happen. For example if I bring up my
old iPhone 3G and I try to set the date further into the future, let's say 2039, it's grayed
out, I can't. The same thing happens with my DSLR camera, I can't go past 2037. So what's
going on? Well, many systems today display and keep track of time using something called
Unix Time. It's basically a 32 bit number that keeps track of time by simply counting
every second since the 1st of January 1970. However, because it's only a 32 bit number
it will eventually reach its maximum value. This will happen on the 19th of January, 2038
at exactly 03:14:07. The system will then no longer be able to differentiate between
2038 and 1901. The way to solve this issue is by upgrading to a 64 bit system instead.
A 64 bit number will be able to count seconds until the 4th of December in the year 292,277,026,596.
If our current understanding of the universe is correct, the universe will most likely
have seized to exist by then. I love how instead of actually solving the problem, we just found
a way to delay it enough so we don't actually have to solve it. Video games these days are getting larger
and larger and larger and larger. Not just the in game world size but the actual amount
of space it takes up on your hard drive. The PC version GTA V for example, is currently
at a staggering 60GB. The physical copy comes on 7 discs. Which makes this game all the
more fascinating. The game is called .kkrieger, I'm not entirely sure how you pronounce that,
but it's only 96KB. The game achieve this incredibly small size by extensive use of
something called procedural generation and a unique method of box modeling. In very basic
terms, the game is essentially created from scratch upon launch which result in some pretty
extensive loading times. But despite its tiny size, the graphics are somehow pretty decent
actually. North Korea have their very own operating
system called Red Star OS. It's a Linux-based system and version 2.0 looked like this. A
weird clone of Windows XP. For version 3.0 they decided to go for a Mac OS X clone instead.
Now the question is, who is gonna use it? Seriously, this is North Korea at night. It's
really kinda sad. They also have their very own web browser called Naenara and it's a
clone of an old version of Firefox. But I doubt any sane person in the country that
actually have access to a computer would dare to even use it. You see, it doesn't actually
connect to the internet. Instead, it connects to the country's intranet called Kwangmyong
with it's own mail service, social network, news outlets, among other things. Basically,
you won't have access to the internet but rather the bestnet. 12+1 = 11+2. Twelve plus one is an anagram
of eleven plus two. And of course, both 12+1 and 11+2 equals 13. Just like the two phrases
"twelve plus one" and "eleven plus two" have 13 characters each. Fucking, Austria. No it's not me having anything
against Austria, there's actually a small village called Fucking in Austria. Even though
the village is tiny with a population of only 100, it's become quite famous for it's Fucking
name. In fact, the only two crimes reported is people stealing the Fucking road signs
and actually fucking in front of the Fucking signs. One version of the sign features the
phrase "Bitte – nicht so schnell!" which means please... Which means... Which mean "Please - not so fast!". In 1898 the novel The Wreck of the Titan was
released. The story features the biggest ship ever built named Titan, which happens to sink
after hitting an iceberg. It sounds familiar doesn't it? But this novel was written 14
years before the Titanic would sink in 1912. Before it was even conceptualized. And the
similarities are pretty uncanny. They both sank in April after hitting an iceberg on
starboard side in the North Atlantic ocean. There where not enough lifeboats for all the
passengers. They had similar size and top speed and both had a maximum crew and passenger
capacity of 3000. As a Russian citizen, you can declare your
ethnicity as more or less anything you want, real or not. That is what the Constitution
of Russia actually states, so people have chosen fictional things such as Jedi
and Hobbit as their official ethnicity. Personally I identify as an attack helicopter. Have you ever looked up at a clear blue sky
and then suddenly you start to see small white dots seemingly floating around inside your
eyes? It looks a little something like this and usually only appear for a few short seconds.
If you haven't, it may sound extremely bizarre but it's something called the Blue Field Entoptic
Phenomenon or simply Blue-sky Sprites. What you're seeing is actually white blood cells
inside your eyes. Blue light from the sky is absorbed by red blood cells but not white, and thus they appear as these mysterious bright dots. How do you describe a person with a below
average intelligence without sounding disrespectful? Today "intellectual disability" is the official
term you should use if you want to be politically correct. At least in the US. But not long
ago, it was completely fine to use terms like retarded or mental retardation. But over time,
these terms became seen as offensive as they where more often used to specifically offend
and insult a person. In a similar fashion words like idiot, imbecile, and moron where
actual medical terms, used to classify your IQ level. So if you had, say, an IQ of 65. It would be a completely correct medical term to say that you are a moron. In the Bay of Bengal, there's an island called
the North Sentinel Island. What's fascinating about this place are the people who live here.
They are called the Sentinelese people and are among the last tribes on the planet, left
almost completely untouched by the outside world. Several attempts has been made to contact
the tribe, but the group has violently rejected each and every one of these attempts. The
Sentinelese maintain a hunter-gatherer type society and it's very likely that they have
not even learned how to produce or control fire. They are the most isolated group of
humans in the world and have existed for more than 60,000 years. A society, frozen in time, oblivious
to the evolution and progress of mankind. Completely unaware that we can fly. That we
have computers, ice cream, smart phones, pigs that look like sheep, Morgan Freeman, porn!
Oh god so much porn. Japan, Yoda, Waluigi, and the dankest collection of dank memes the
universe has ever seen. They don't know that there are billions of us. That we come in
different colors, shapes, and sizes. That there's been thousands of wars, spanning the
entire planet. That there's a fucking planet. They have no idea that that gigantic white
sky demon is actually a moon and that humans have been there. That it's possible that we are not alone in the universe and that aliens may exist. Then again, to them, we are the aliens.
