This day in history: Did you know...

Wednesday, 17 September 2014

Did you know...

Did you know...

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

An example of a databent image, showing colorful tiled patterns and visual tearing as a result of corruption

... that databending of images (example pictured) can occur through "the WordPad effect"?
... that in 1547 Mrauk-U defenses stopped an invasion by theTaungoo Dynasty of Burma by opening the sluices of the Mrauk-U city's reservoirs, and flooding out the invaders?
... that American singer ILoveMakonnen was named after the royal family of Ethiopia, but is in fact of African, Indian, Irish, Belgian, German and Chinese descent?
... that the narrow-skulled pocket mouse can be distinguished from Goldman's pocket mouse partly by the dimensions of its skull?
... that the social democratic newspaper Volkswacht was placed under preventive censorship during World War I?
... that the extinct ant species Apterostigma electropilosum was described from a solitary fossil in amber?
... that the costume historian Anne Hollander claimed that clothes reveal more than they conceal?

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