The list is somewhat small this week. I didn’t do a good job of documenting this week. All but the first I actually learned yesterday.

• ZEROFILL numeric values in MySQL are implicitly UNSIGNED.
• Saccharin was discovered accidentaly when a scientist was working with coal tar derivatives and forgot to wash his hands.
• New Orlean’s Lake Pontchartrain was named after France’s chancellor, Minister of the Marine, and minister of finance under Louis XIV.
• Wootz was being created as early as 300AD (or maybe even 200BC). Apparently modern metallurgists have reproduced the procedure.

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Posted at : March 3rd, 2006 - 5:11 pm
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