While watching Stephen Fry’s QI, and securing my
place in geekdom, I learned a bit of trivia.
Want to know!?!
Harald Blåtand
Gormsson was a 10th century Danish King who united what is now
Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
Do you know this one?
Blåtand was a nickname, which
could be interpreted as Blakkr Thegn or Dark Chieftan OR Dark Tooth and since
Dark and Blue were the same word . . . Bluetooth!
Did everyone know this? Is
it just my lack of adequate nerd hood?
Bluetooth,
named for the Royal, was created as an open standard to allow connectivity and
collaboration.
Nordic runes H (haglaz)
Nordic runes B (berkanan)
The symbol is a
combination of the Nordic runes H and B.
I did not
know!
Bonus
trivia?
One type of developmental genes are called Hedgehog genes.
A specific gene,
in this family, was named Sonic Hedgehog incorporating the previously named
Tiggywinkle Hedgehog.
Complete
geek bliss!!
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