Spot the Difference

Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, as well as Apple have one not so obvious thing in common – they were all started in a garage. Ninety percent of text messages are read within three minutes of being delivered.

“The Great Red Spot” is a region in the atmosphere of Jupiter housing the largest storm in our solar system. The color of the storm was first depicted as red in a 1711 painting by Donato Creti called “Jupiter”.

The decimal number system we use today seems like the obvious choice, given that we have ten fingers to count with. But in the olden days, people counted in dozens, not tens. Hence the word “hundred” – it derives from the old Norse “hundrath” and originally meant 120.