Did you know that Bluetooth is named for Harold Bluetooth, ancient king of Denmark and Norway?

[AviatorTom]

Harold Bluetooth ruled as the King of Denmark and Norway in the 10th Century. The Nordic runes of his initials (H+B, (ᚼ, Hagall) and (ᛒ, Bjarkan)) are combined to form the Bluetooth icon.

It's interesting to note that this was only designed as a temporary thing, with a more descriptive name (like short-distance WiFi?) but became permanent later.

Did you know that?

[purplepoppy]

Yes he was supposed to have gotten the name because his teeth were stained by eating blueberries. A tradition still live and well in the UK, particularly in Shropshire area. Come summer the hills are full of wild small blueberries called wimberries, whinberries or bilberries depending where your from. The locals collect masses of them to turn into wimberry pie, jams, jelly, wine, muffins etc. It wasn't that long ago kids would be given the week off school to harvest them. Unlike the modern blueberry they stain everything purple, particularly your teeth.

[FreyaRed]

Was rather poisoning with some heavy metal or nerve main channel damage in jaw.

[Nikki1989]

No, but I do now.

Cheers!

[AngryCarl3]

No, I never even thought about it.

Did you know porn star Jenna Jameson took her name from an Irish whisky? Jameson isn't even her real name.

[AviatorTom]

@angrycarl3They say that "Jameson goes down smooth." 😐

[DryGermanGuy]

Yeah, I read about him ("König Blauzahn" in German) in history books.

[RavVid]

Was completely unaware of this and thank you for telling us this interesting fact.

I like to find out one interesting thing per day. I can take the rest of my Saturday off now :)

[gasman70]

I thought this was a dating advice forum not a trivia knowledge forum

[AviatorTom]

@gasman70 Many people use Bluetooth to access the Internet, which is where the dating sites and dating apps are. 😐

[gasman70]

look at you Mr. technicality, LOL. Hey, for what it's worth, i like most of your posts

[andreasderjuengere]

When Geeks and Nerds are left unattended, the strangest things happen.

Yes I knew the general background. Although the detail ''Harold'' had slipped out of my memory.

[Taranis_Thunor]

Yeah and Harald Bluetooth was a massive piece of shit that went to hell just like our globalists today.

[spartan55]

I did not know this @AviatorTom, and I always enjoy you sharing some learnin.

[NathanDavis]

yeah... I watched that series, Vikings... two or three times

[Ill_made_Knight]

I do remember having seen that somewhere upon having my memory jogged

[Chazmatazz269]

Seems like i have heard something about this before, but it didn’t really sink in.

[msc545]

I was aware of that. Having read it elsewhere previously. I think Harald must have been an on and off again guy based on my experiences with Bluetooth.

[Shiprex]

I did know that and found it very interesting.

[KostasKouvalis]

I did, but totally forgot, so thanks for remininding me

[_Jenny_]

@AviatorTom Sure, everyone knows that

[AviatorTom]

@_jenny_ The results of this question hints otherwise.

[BCRanger10]

Why, yes Tom, I did!

[Anonymous]

It can be be named after a donkeys ass for all I care… it kAAgx s lot and it hasn’t improved much since it came out

[slatyb]

No, very interesting.

[WhitneySnow]

I did know that! Saw it somewhere online

[MrChinaski]

I was not aware.

[exitseven]

I did sort of know that.

[Xdressertiff]

No but I do now Tom thanks

[DishLady]

Interesting!

[Mandatoryman]

No I didn't know that makes me wonder why him lol

[OlderAndWiser]

It’s news to me!

[Paige2006]

No I didn't

[radiomechanic]

Never knew that