Storyteller, Quizzer, Marcom Pro.
Storyteller, Quizzer, Marcom Pro.
Jigarthanda is a chilled milk‑based beverage that originated in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. The name comes from the Urdu/Persian word “jigar,” which literally means “liver” but is poetically and popularly used to mean “heart,” and “thanda” meaning cold, together suggesting “cool heart.”…
Vada Pav is often described as Mumbai’s most iconic street snack. Ashok Vaidya is widely credited with creating it in 1966, when he ran a small tea stall outside Dadar railway station, where thousands of textile mill workers passed every day.…
The Jeep was born out of urgency during World War II. In 1940, the U.S. Army needed a lightweight, four-wheel-drive vehicle that could handle rough terrain. They sent the specifications to 135 companies. They just gave only 49 days for…
What do wireless earbuds and Vikings have in common? Bluetooth, the wireless technology that connects devices over short distances, owes its name to a 10th-century Danish king. Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson was known for uniting Denmark and parts of Norway, bringing…
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit designed for reliability and scale. Originally developed at SoundCloud, it collects metrics from configured targets at regular intervals, stores them efficiently, and enables powerful queries and real-time alerts. It is widely used…
The concept of “branding” traces its roots to the Old Norse word brandr, meaning “to burn.” For centuries, humans used hot irons to mark livestock, ensuring ownership was unmistakable. This crude yet practical system became widespread, especially among herders, to…
The phrase “moment of truth” first appeared in English through Ernest Hemingway’s 1932 classic Death in the Afternoon. Hemingway borrowed the Spanish term el momento de la verdad, which referred to the climactic point in a bullfight when the matador…
In the late 1800s, cities like London and New York faced a growing problem: horse manure. With tens of thousands of horses used for transport, each producing roughly 15 to 35 pounds of waste daily, the streets were overwhelmed. The…
A story often shared in customer service and engineering circles tells of a man who wrote to Pontiac to report a strange problem: his new car wouldn’t start, but only on nights when he bought vanilla ice cream from his…