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OK, "blow your mind" is a bit dramatic. But 65 Amazing Facts You'll Probably Enjoy and Likely Consider Mentioning to Your Friends didn't fit.TRANSCRIPT
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1. Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for under $1 million in 1999—but Excite turned them down.
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2. There was a third Apple founder. Ronald Wayne (pictured at home in 2010) sold his 10% stake for $800 in 1976.
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3. The famous Aaron Burr “Got Milk?” ad from 1993 was directed by Michael Bay.
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4. According to Amazon, the most highlighted Kindle books are the Bible, the Steve Jobs biography, and The Hunger Games.
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5. A California woman once tried to sue the makers of Cap'n Crunch because Crunch Berries contained "no berries of any kind."
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6. Wilford Brimley was Howard Hughes's bodyguard.
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7. During WWI, German measles were called "liberty measles" and dachshunds became "liberty hounds."
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8. In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teens thought Sherlock Holmes was a real guy, while 20% thought Winston Churchill was not.
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9. At one point in the 1990s, 50% of all CDs produced worldwide were for AOL.
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10. Toy companies failed to duplicate the success of Theodore Roosevelt's teddy bear with William Taft's "Billy Possum."
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11. Nutella was invented during WWII, when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration.
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12. In response to The Lorax, the forest products industry published Truax to teach kids the importance of logging.
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13. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima for work when the first A-bomb hit, made it home to Nagasaki for the second, and lived to be 93.
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14. A British man changed his name to Tim Pppppppppprice to make it harder for telemarketers to pronounce.
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15. J.P. Morgan once offered $100,000 to anyone who could figure out why his face was so red. No one solved the mystery.
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16. Prairie dogs say hello with kisses.
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17. In the mid-1960s, Slumber Party Barbie came with a book called "How to Lose Weight." One of the tips was "Don’t eat."
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18. A 2009 search for the Loch Ness Monster came up empty. Scientists did find over 100,000 golf balls.
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19. After OutKast sang “Shake it like a Polaroid picture,” Polaroid released a statement that said, “Shaking or waving can actually damage the image.”
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20. New Mexico State's first graduating class in 1893 had only one student—and he was shot and killed before graduation.
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21. In the mid-1980s, Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas was the voice of Charlie Brown's sister Sally.
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22. Jonas Salk declined to patent his polio vaccine. "There is no patent," he said. "Could you patent the sun?"
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23. Only one McDonald’s in the world has turquoise arches. Sedona, AZ thought yellow clashed with the natural red rock.
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24. The 50-star American flag was designed by an Ohio high school student for a class project. His teacher originally gave him a B–.
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25. According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, the most commonly stolen vehicle in 2012 was the 1994 Honda Accord.
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26. After leaving office, Lyndon Johnson let his hair grow out.
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27. Crabs have their own version of the fist pump. Male crabs wave their claws in the air to attract females.
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28. Calvin Klein's Obsession for Men is used by researchers to attract animals to cameras in the wilderness.
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29. Sean Connery turned down the Gandalf role in Lord of the Rings. "I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don't understand it."
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30. E.B. White of Charlotte's Web fame is the "White" of Strunk and White, who wrote The Elements of Style.
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31. Chock Full o' Nuts coffee does not contain nuts. It's named for a chain of nut stores that the founder converted into coffee shops.
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32. 12+1 = 11+2, and "twelve plus one" is an anagram of "eleven plus two."
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33. San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh played Screech's cousin on a 1996 episode of Saved by the Bell: The New Class.
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34. At the height of Rin Tin Tin's fame, a chef prepared him a daily steak lunch. Classical musicians played to aid his digestion.
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35. The Arkansas School for the Deaf's nickname is the Leopards. The Deaf Leopards.
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36. If your dog's feet smell like corn chips, you're not alone. The term "Frito Feet" was coined to describe the scent.
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37. A sex pheromone found in male mouse urine was named "darcin," for Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy.
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38. Barry Manilow did not write his hit "I Write the Songs."
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39. He did, however, write State Farm's "Like a Good Neighbor" jingle.
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40. And "I am stuck on Band-Aids, 'cause Band-Aid's stuck on me."
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41. Winston Churchill's mother was born in Brooklyn.
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42. Officials in Portland, Ore., drained 8 million gallons of water from a reservoir in 2011 because a buzzed 21-year-old peed in it.
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43. There's a basketball court above the Supreme Court. It's known as the Highest Court in the Land.
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44. If you start counting at one and spell out the numbers as you go, you won't use the letter "A" until you reach 1,000.
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45. On a 1999 episode of The West Wing, Nick Offerman ("Ron Swanson") played a man lobbying the White House to build a $900 million wolves-only roadway.
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46. The medical term for ice cream headaches is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.
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47. After Leonardo da Vinci's death, King Francis I of France hung the Mona Lisa in his bathroom.
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48. Redondo Beach, CA adopted the Goodyear Blimp as the city's official bird in 1983.
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49. In 2001, Beaver College changed its name to Arcadia in part because anti-porn filters blocked access to the school's website.
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50. Peeps Lip Balm is something that exists.
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51. Quentin Tarantino played an Elvis impersonator on The Golden Girls.
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52. Wendy's founder Dave Thomas dropped out of high school but picked up his GED in 1993. His GED class voted him Most Likely to Succeed.
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53. Sleeping through winter is hibernation, while sleeping through summer is estivation.
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54. In Spain, Mr. Clean is known as Don Limpio.
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55. In Qaddafi's compound, Libyan rebels found a photo album filled with pictures of Condoleezza Rice.
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56. Reed Hastings was inspired to start Netflix after racking up a $40 late fee on a VHS copy of Apollo 13.
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57. Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive. Researchers hoping to view them must sign a disclaimer.
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58. Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins also wrote for Clarissa Explains It All.
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59. When three-letter airport codes became standard, airports that had been using two letters simply added an X.
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60. Just before the Nazis invaded Paris, H.A. and Margret Rey fled on bicycles. They were carrying the manuscript for Curious George.
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61. William McKinley was on the $500 bill, Grover Cleveland was on the $1,000, and James Madison was on the $5,000.
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62. In 1999, the U.S. government paid the Zapruder family $16 million for the film of JFK's assassination.
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63. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? The world may never know. But on average, a Licking Machine made at Purdue needed 364.
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64. Janis Joplin left $2,500 in her will for her friends to "have a ball after I’m gone."
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65. Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.
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