Saturday, June 7, 2008

The Toronto Star's 10 Things We Learned This Week

Some of the things we learned this week, according to the Toronto Star's weekly feature "10 Things We Learned This Week" includes:

The @ sign was very close to being eliminated from the standard keyboard until 1971, when Ray Tomlinson wrote it into the code used to send the first email.


There was once a pineapple-flavoured Mars bar. It was not a roaring success.


The full name of TV mom June Cleaver, of Leave It to Beaver, is June Evelyn Bronson Cleaver.




Read the full article here.

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