Google was originally called “Backrub”. In 1999, the founders of Google actually tried to sell it to Excite for just US$1 million. Excite turned them down. Do you know the amazing facts about Google that the founders of Google did not have an idea regarding using HTML and just wanted a quick interface. This is the main reason that makes the Google home page appear so bare.

Amazing Facts About Google to Blow Your Mind

• The first Google Doodle was dedicated to the Burning Man festival attended by Google founders in 1998. Larry Page and Sergey Brin made the first Google Doodle in August 1998.
• Do you know the amazing facts about google that if you search for “askew” in Google, the content will tilt slightly to the right.
• When a Google employee dies, their spouses receive half pay from the company for 10 years and their children US$1,000 per month until they turn 19.
• Every day, 16% of the searches that occur are ones that Google has never seen before.
• Do you know the amazing facts about Google that Google hired a camel to create the Street view of a desert.
• Microsoft pays you to use Bing instead of Google.
• Every minute, 2 million searches are performed on Google.
• Because Gmail first launched on April 1st of 2004, many people thought it was an April Fools’ Day prank.
• Do you know the amazing facts about Google that Firefox web browser’s lead developer is now working for Google Chrome.
• Google’s first tweet ever was “I’m feeling lucky” written in binary code.
• Google’s First Computer Storage Was Made From LEGO.
• Google is developing a computer so smart it can program itself.
• Google beats Facebook: it’s the world’s most visited website.
• For the 4th consecutive year, Google was named the best company to work for in the U.S. by Fortune Mag in 2014.
• Google got its name by accident. The founders misspelled “googol”, which refers to the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes.
• On August 16, 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and in that time, the global Internet traffic
  dropped by 40%
• Google has a version of their site translated to the language of the Klingons, from Star Trek.
• Google has acquired 24 companies this year alone — that’s about three companies a month.
• Do you know the amazing facts about google that Google has the largest network of translators in the world.
• Over 6 billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube – that’s almost an hour for every person on earth.
• Do you know the amazing facts about google that Google’s toughest competitors are Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Mozilla.
• Google believes that employees should not go out of 150 meters from the office for food so it provides various different varieties of cuisines to the employees inside the office.

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 Charles Darwin was born in England on the 12th of February 1809, he died on the 19th of April 1882. He was the grandson of Josiah Wedgwood the famous furniture manufacturer. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh but found lectures dull. He learned taxidermy from John Edmonstone, a freed black slave.

Amazing Facts About Charles Darwin

• Darwin became an enthusiastic Beetle collector – which was a craze at the time.
• His father sent him to Christ’s College, Cambridge with the intention of training him as an Anglican parson. He later gave up Christianity.
• Presented compelling evidence from his detailed research which included a five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle. On this voyage, Darwin visited ecologically diverse regions such as Brazil, Chile, Australia, the Falkland Islands and the Galapagos Islands. His five-year voyage on HMS Beagle established him as an eminent geologist and popular writer. His observations would be used to develop his theory of evolution.
• His 1859 book ‘On the Origin of Species’, detailed much of his research on natural selection, it contained a
  large amount of evidence to back up his ideas and became a landmark work in the field of evolutionary biology.
• Darwin and Wallace’s theories on evolution were both presented on the same day in 1858 to the Linnean Society of London.
• The full title of Origin of Species is On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
• Darwin did not coin the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’. It was added to the fifth edition of Origin of Species. The phrase came from economist Herbert Spencer.
• Darwin has appeared on more UK stamps than anyone outside the Royal Family.
• Seven months after the publication of ‘Origin of Species’ the famous 1860 Oxford evolution debate occurred
  between Thomas Henry Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce. The debate is considered to be a great moment in natural history – and a key moment in the acceptance of evolution.
• Other famous work by Charles Darwin includes: ‘The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals’, ‘The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex’, ‘The Power of Movement in Plants’ and ‘The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms’.
• Famous Charles Darwin quotes include: “Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and
  from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relationship to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that
  individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring.”
• He liked to eat exotic animals, but not owls.
•  Charles Darwin had connections to Buddhism
•  Charles Darwin influenced the early history of Psychology
• Charles Darwin was an Abolitionist.
• Charles Darwin married his Cousin.

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