Facts

The most popular photo-sharing app Instagram was launched on October 6, 2010. Today, Instagram celebrates its birthday and, in honor of the anniversary, released an update and added an easter egg to the app that lets you change its home screen icon.

The author of the series A Song of Ice and Fire, George Martin, turned 72 on September 20. In honor of such a holiday, we decided to share the most interesting facts about his life.

This year, DC Comics officially announced that Batman Day will take place on September 19. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this will be an entirely virtual event.

On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman first proposed the use of three consecutive characters: colon, hyphen, and closing parenthesis to denote a "smiling face" in a text that is typed on a computer.

Today, we will try to figure out why we feel extremely embarrassed or ashamed when someone else acts or is too awkward or stupid and why this feeling might actually be beneficial to us.

Legend has it that in the 1920s, Lionel Sternberger, a young diner chef in Pasadena, California, somehow overcooked a hamburger, but decided to add some cheese to disguise this. This is how the cheeseburger was born.

Constitution Day and Citizenship Day is celebrated in the United States annually on September 17, starting in 2001, by the decision of President George W. Bush.