Google’s founders came up with the number Googol (10100) for the name of their search engine. They asked a fellow graduate student to go book the domain name but he misspelled it as Google and they stuck with it.

In response to bill prohibiting school teachers from alluding to homosexuality, George Tekai offered his name to replace the word “gay”, e.g. “Takei marriage” and “Takei Pride Parade”.

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is “shake” and the 46th word from the last word is “spear”.

When asked to write an essay on their characters, Emma Watson submitted a 16-page paper, Daniel submitted a one-page essay, and Rupert never turned his in.When asked to write an essay on their characters, Emma Watson submitted a 16-page paper, Daniel submitted a one-page essay, and Rupert never turned his in.

Sawney Beane, his wife, 8 sons, 6 daughters, 32 grandchildren were a family of cannibals that lived in the caves near Galloway, Scotland in the early 17th Century. Although the total number is not known, it is believed they claimed over 50 victims per year. The entire family was taken by an army detachment to Edinburgh and executed, apparently without trial.

Thomas Edison, inventor of the first commercially practical incandescent light, was afraid of the dark! When asked once if he were afraid of anything he replied “I am afraid of the dark.” Thomas Edison died Oct.18, 1931, with all the lights burning in his New Jersey home. In 1840, British Astronomer and Chemist, Warren de la Rue, enclosed a platinum coil in a vacuum tube and passed an electric current through it, thus creating the world’s first light bulb a full 40 years before Edison.