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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.
#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.
#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
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#6 Wilford Brimley was Howard Hughes's bodyguard.
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#7 During WWI, German measles were called
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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
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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.
#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.
#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.
#17 In the mid-1960s, Slumber Party Barbie came with a book called
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#18 A 2009 search for the Loch Ness Monster came up empty. Scientists did find over 100,000 golf balls.
#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.
#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.
#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–.
#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.
#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.
#29 Sean Connery turned down the Gandalf role in Lord of the Rings.
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#30 E.B. White of Charlotte's Web fame is the
#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
#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.
#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
#37 A sex pheromone found in male mouse urine was named
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#38 Barry Manilow did not write his hit
#39 He did, however, write State Farm's
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#40 And
#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.
#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
#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.
