1. Googles 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. * 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. * 5. A California woman once tried to sue the makers of Capn Crunch because Crunch Berries contained no berries of any kind. * 6. Wilford Brimley was Howard Hughess bodyguard. * 7. During WWI, German measles were called liberty measles and dachshunds became liberty hounds. * 8. In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teens thought Sherlock Holmes was a real guy, while 20% thought Winston Churchill was not. * 9. At one point in the 1990s, 50% of all CDs produced worldwide were for AOL. * 10. Toy companies failed to duplicate the success of Theodore Roosevelts teddy bear with William Tafts Billy Possum. * 11. Nutella was invented during WWII, when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration. * 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. * 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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