- There are more than 35 ways to do pushups.
- You can go to Gmail in Firefox by typing the letter g in the address bar and hitting Enter.
- 'Members of the public and the media do not need a permit to film or photograph in public places and police have no power to stop them filming or photographing incidents or police personnel.' Via Mike).
- MacArthur Park (one of Donna Summer's hits) was originally recorded by the late Richard Harris (Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films).
- Microbial cells outnumber your own by a factor of 10. Via Richard Dawkins.
- The keyboard shortcut Ctrl-L focuses on the browser's address bar and select the whole URL. Works in Chrome and Firefox, would expect in others too but haven't tried.
- And something I had a hunch about, and I'm not the only one: swapping the position of batteries in a device makes them last longer. Still scientifically unconfirmed though.
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Wednesday 12 August 2009 at 10:00 am
Yep, number 6 works in Safari too (CMD + L on the Mac though!) I was wondering about that for ages. Glad you found it!