Below are some interesting facts of knowledge that you can definitely impress your friends with.
- Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for under $1 million in 1999—but Excite turned them down.
- There was a third Apple founder. Ronald Wayne (pictured at home in 2010) sold his 10% stake for $800 in 1976.
- The famous Aaron Burr “Got Milk?” ad from 1993 was directed by Michael Bay.
- According to Amazon, the most highlighted Kindle books are the Bible, the Steve Jobs biography, and The Hunger Games.
- A California woman once tried to sue the makers of Cap'n Crunch because Crunch Berries contained "no berries of any kind."
- Wilford Brimley was Howard Hughes's bodyguard.
- During WWI, German measles were called "liberty measles" and dachshunds became "liberty hounds."
- In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teens thought Sherlock Holmes was a real guy, while 20% thought Winston Churchill was not.
- At one point in the 1990s, 50% of all CDs produced worldwide were for AOL.
- Toy companies failed to duplicate the success of Theodore Roosevelt's teddy bear with William Taft's "Billy Possum."
- Nutella was invented during WWII, when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration.
- In response to The Lorax, the forest products industry published Truax to teach kids the importance of logging.
- 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.
- A British man changed his name to Tim Pppppppppprice to make it harder for telemarketers to pronounce.
- J.P. Morgan once offered $100,000 to anyone who could figure out why his face was so red. No one solved the mystery.
- Prairie dogs say hello with kisses.
- In the mid-1960s, Slumber Party Barbie came with a book called "How to Lose Weight." One of the tips was "Don’t eat."
- A 2009 search for the Loch Ness Monster came up empty. Scientists did find over 100,000 golf balls.
- After OutKast sang “Shake it like a Polaroid picture,” Polaroid released a statement that said, “Shaking or waving can actually damage the image.”
- New Mexico State's first graduating class in 1893 had only one student—and he was shot and killed before graduation.