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25 Bizarre Coins that are legal tender

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Coin with Actual Piece of Concorde Heat Shield in it, Tristan da Cunha

This coin celebrated the 20th anniversary of Concorde in 2009, it’s gold plated and each coin produced contained a tiny piece of Concorde’s titanium alloy heat shield, collect them all and build your own miniature Concorde!

via 25 Bizarre Coins that are legal tender « AdvanceLoan Finance Blog.

There’s stranger and more bizarre, but this was one of the more interesting ones.

[HOW TO] Calibrate Desire Battery – xda-developers

The following steps should significantly extend the battery life on your phone.

1. Please connect the phone to the charger with the phone powered on, and allow the phone to charge until the notification LED is green, indicating the device is fully charged.
2. Disconnect the phone from the charger, and power it off.
3. Reconnect the phone to the charger with the phone powered off, and allow the phone to charge until the notification LED is green.
4. Disconnect the phone from the charger and power it on.
5. Once the phone is powered completely on, power it off again and reconnect it to the charger until the notification LED is green.
6. Disconnect the phone, power it on, and use it.

You need to use this sequence only once.

via [HOW TO] Calibrate Desire Battery – xda-developers.