Author: Disha Barot

FIR stands for First Information Report. What it is under Section 173 of the BNSS (in force from 1 July 2024), Zero FIR, how to file one step by step, online FIRs and the three-day rule, your rights, and what to do if the police refuse.

GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer. What each word means, the surprising origin of the name (OpenAI’s 2018 paper never says GPT), a timeline to ChatGPT, and the other meanings: GUID Partition Table and the SGPT liver test.

The Eisenhower Matrix sorts tasks into four boxes by urgency and importance. Where it really came from (a 1954 speech and Covey’s 1989 Time Matrix), how to use it step by step, a worked example, the mere urgency effect and a template.

Bard names for D&D and fantasy: male, female and gender-neutral names, musical last names, names with real musical meanings, funny puns, the real Welsh bards behind the class, and a simple naming formula.

The Pomodoro Technique is 25 minutes of focused work, a 5-minute break, and a longer break after four rounds. The steps, a sample schedule, the fuller method Cirillo teaches, what two studies found, and how to adjust it.

Most of the world writes dates day first, the US month first, and East Asia, Canada and Sweden year first. Default formats for 44 locales from Unicode CLDR, which countries use month-day-year, and how to write dates nobody misreads.

In 5W-30, the W stands for winter, 5 is the oil’s cold-weather rating and 30 is how thick it stays when the engine is hot. How to read and compare any oil grade, why the right grade affects fuel economy, the API Donut symbol and the current API SQ category.

Laundry symbols use five shapes: a tub for washing, a triangle for bleach, a square for drying, an iron for ironing and a circle for dry cleaning. What the numbers, dots, bars and crosses mean, and how US care labels differ from the international system.

Most fresh herbs last longest standing in a jar of water in the fridge, but basil is damaged by cold and belongs on the counter. Which method suits each herb, three ways to freeze herbs, how to dry them, how long they last, and why herbs in oil must stay cold.

Metric prefixes such as kilo, milli and giga multiply a unit by a power of 10. The full chart of all 24 SI prefixes, the 2022 additions ronna and quetta, how to convert between prefixes, the writing rules, and why a 1 TB drive shows 931 GB.

Roman numerals use seven letters: I, V, X, L, C, D and M. The adding and subtracting rules, a 1 to 100 chart, step-by-step conversion, years like MMXXVI, where they are used today and the most common mistakes.

The 24-hour clock numbers hours from 00 to 23, so 14:30 is 2:30 p.m. A full conversion chart, two quick tricks, what NIST and ISO 8601 say about noon, midnight and 24:00, and how to switch formats on phones, in Excel and in code.