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.
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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