1. Google was originally called backrub.
2. Google has found Gpa's and test scores to be "worthless as criteria for hiring." They have teams where 14% of their employees haven't gone to collage.
3. In 1999, the founders of google actually tried to sell it to excite for just one million U.S. dollars.
4. If you search 'askew' in google, the content will tilt slightly to the right.
5. The first google doodle was dedicated to the burning man festival attended by google founders in 1998.
6. When a google employee dies, their spouse receive half pay from the company for 10 years and their children earn $1,000 per month until they turn 19.
7. Google intends to scan all known existing 129 million unique books before 2020.
8. Google hired a camel to create the street view of a desert.
9. Every minute, 2 million searches are performed on google.
10. Because Gmail was first launched on April 1st of 2004, many people thought it was an April fools day prank.
Sunday, February 28, 2016
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Fun Facts About Presidents
1. George Washington is the only president that has received 100% of the electoral votes.
2. George Washington never wore a wig, his hair was naturally long and lustrous, although he did use powder to make it white.
3. George Washington grew marijuana in his farm.
4. In George Washington's will, he ordered for his 300 slaves to be freed after his wife died.
5. George Washington was a ginger.
6. JFK's application to Harvard University was only five sentences long.
7. Abraham Lincoln suffered depression so he avoided carrying knives because he feared he would use them on himself.
8. Abraham Lincoln's assassin was a famous actor and Lincoln was also a big fan of him.
9. Abraham Lincoln's son Robert was saved from a train accident by Edwin Booth, son of Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
10. Lincoln was the first major leader in the U.S.to feel that women should have the right to vote.
2. George Washington never wore a wig, his hair was naturally long and lustrous, although he did use powder to make it white.
3. George Washington grew marijuana in his farm.
4. In George Washington's will, he ordered for his 300 slaves to be freed after his wife died.
5. George Washington was a ginger.
6. JFK's application to Harvard University was only five sentences long.
7. Abraham Lincoln suffered depression so he avoided carrying knives because he feared he would use them on himself.
8. Abraham Lincoln's assassin was a famous actor and Lincoln was also a big fan of him.
9. Abraham Lincoln's son Robert was saved from a train accident by Edwin Booth, son of Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
10. Lincoln was the first major leader in the U.S.to feel that women should have the right to vote.
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Fun Panda Facts
1. The giant panda is actually a bear.
2. About 2,000 pandas are in the wild.
3. 99% of a panda's diet is bamboo.
4. All pandas in the world are loaned or borrowed from China.
5. Young elephants, pandas, koalas, and hippos eat the fesses of their mothers.
6. Pandas can poop up to 40 times a day.
7. Panda researchers have to put on panda costumes when they want to work with the cubs.
8. The life span of a giant panda is twenty years.
9. The west first found out about the giant panda in 1869, when a french missionary received a skin from a hunter.
10. Female pandas are fertile for only up two three times a year.
11. The giant pandas spend around 55% of their lives collecting, preparing, and eating bamboo.
12. One of the reasons that the WWF logo is a panda is to save printing costs.
2. About 2,000 pandas are in the wild.
3. 99% of a panda's diet is bamboo.
4. All pandas in the world are loaned or borrowed from China.
5. Young elephants, pandas, koalas, and hippos eat the fesses of their mothers.
6. Pandas can poop up to 40 times a day.
7. Panda researchers have to put on panda costumes when they want to work with the cubs.
8. The life span of a giant panda is twenty years.
9. The west first found out about the giant panda in 1869, when a french missionary received a skin from a hunter.
10. Female pandas are fertile for only up two three times a year.
11. The giant pandas spend around 55% of their lives collecting, preparing, and eating bamboo.
12. One of the reasons that the WWF logo is a panda is to save printing costs.
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Fun Facts About McDonald's
1. McDonald's first menu items were hot dogs, not hamburgers.
2. One in eight people have been employed by McDonald's
3. McDonalds' Caesar salad is more fattening then their hamburger.
4. McDonald's opens a new restaurant every 14.5 hours.
5. McDonald's restaurants feed 68 million people every day. That is more than the entire population of the U.K..
6. The queen of England owns a McDonald's near Buckingham palace.
7. McDonald's is not the world's largest restaurant chain, Subway is.
8. McDonald's makes about 75 U.S. dollars everyday.
9. In 2005, a man named Ronald MacDonald robbed a Wendy's.
10. McDonald's actually sold pizza in the 70's.
11. McDonald's drive-through won't serve people who come riding horses.
12. There is a McDonald's in Sedona, Arizona that has a blue logo.
13. If you live in the U.S. then you are no further than 115 miles away from a McDonald's.
2. One in eight people have been employed by McDonald's
3. McDonalds' Caesar salad is more fattening then their hamburger.
4. McDonald's opens a new restaurant every 14.5 hours.
5. McDonald's restaurants feed 68 million people every day. That is more than the entire population of the U.K..
6. The queen of England owns a McDonald's near Buckingham palace.
7. McDonald's is not the world's largest restaurant chain, Subway is.
8. McDonald's makes about 75 U.S. dollars everyday.
9. In 2005, a man named Ronald MacDonald robbed a Wendy's.
10. McDonald's actually sold pizza in the 70's.
11. McDonald's drive-through won't serve people who come riding horses.
12. There is a McDonald's in Sedona, Arizona that has a blue logo.
13. If you live in the U.S. then you are no further than 115 miles away from a McDonald's.
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