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Apollo 11 astronauts couldn’t afford insurance.
TV show Seinfeld wasn't actually a "show about nothing," it was a show about how comedians get their material.
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People are still using dial-up.
In 2004, the @ symbol became the first new character to be added to Morse code for the first time in many decades.
Instead of donating money, Toyota helped the NY Food Bank by increasing efficiency, cutting line wait times from 90 to 18 minutes.
In 2008, a British 19-year-old officially changed his name to "Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined."
Australia's National Soccer team is called "The Socceroos."
Gangster John Dillinger reportedly once escaped from prison by carving a potato into the shape of a pistol.
Texas, New York and California all have economies bigger than Russia.
Allied forces hired a makeup artist to draw sketches of Hitler in various disguises.
There's a monument to the laboratory mouse in Siberia, Russia.
Fact: Nobody won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1914-1916, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1939-1943, 1948, 1955-1956, 1966-1967 and 1972.
In French, Hungarian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Latvian, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin and Tagalog, the words for ‘time' and ‘weather' are the same.
Using your non-dominant hand for mundane tasks, like eating or opening doors, for two weeks can improve your self-control.
The original URL for Yahoo was akebono.standford.edu.
The green falling code in "The Matrix" movie is just loads of sushi recipes.
Amazon wasn’t always Amazon, either! Originally named “Cadabra.com,” Cadabra was an online bookstore only.
Most everyone, anyway! 97% of people type in words to Google just to see if they spelled it right.
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The first word to ever be auto-corrected was “teh.”
In 1993, a Soviet cosmonaut brought his Nintendo Game Boy to space on the TM-17 space mission.
It is said to have orbited Earth 3,000 times and was later auctioned for $1,220.
A theist is someone who is addicted to tea. Well that makes me a theist as well.
3623 Chaplin is an asteroid named in honour of Charlie Chaplin.
All Quiet on the Western Front" was banned in Poland for being pro-German and in Germany for being anti-German.
Matt Groening designed The Simpson family to be immediately identifiable in silhouette, hence their distinctive hairstyles and head-shapes.
Google searches hit the billions every month.Google searches hit the billions every month.
Russia has 800,000 faith healers but only 640,000 doctors. Unverified!
“Phantom Vibration Syndrome” is the name for when someone thinks their phone is vibrating, but it isn’t.