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Hidden character stone (藏字石 or 救星石) is a stone located in Zhangbu village, Pingtang County, Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, People’s Republic of China. The stone itself contains the Chinese characters “Communist Party of China” (中國共產党).
It was first discovered in June 2002. In August 2003, a geologist was sent to investigate the site. This confirmed the characters on the stone were genuine and not vandalism or the work of someone recent.
In December 2003, a group of 15 scientists was formed to investigate the stone. The stone was determined to be about 270 million years old, from the Permian period. There are no traces of the characters being made by humans.
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Wingdings are a series of dingbat fonts. They were originally developed by Microsoft in 1990, by combining glyphs from the Lucida Icons, Lucida Arrows, and Lucida Stars fonts.
In 1992, only days after the release of Windows 3.1, it was discovered that the character sequence NYC in Wingdings was rendered as a skull and crossbones symbol, Star of David, and thumbs up gesture. Microsoft strongly denied this was intentional and insisted that the final arrangement of the glyphs in the font was largely random.
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Bush hid the facts is a common name for a bug present in Microsoft Windows. The bug appeared for the first time in Windows NT 3.5, but was not discovered until early 2004.
It causes a file of text encoded in Windows-1252 or similar encoding to be interpreted as if it were UTF-16LE. When Bush hid the facts is put in a new Notepad document, saved, closed, and reopened, the words “畂桳栠摩琠敨映捡獴” (Liu Benrenmotian Touyingjianmeng) appear instead.
