- When Charlie Chaplin received his honorary Oscar, he got a 12-minute standing ovation, the longest in Oscar history.
- The founders of Adidas and Puma are brothers.
- The company ‘Sony’ was originally called 'Totsunken'.
- 'Virgin' got it's name because the founders were exactly that:Virgins!
- A Rubik's cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different combinations.
- A newborn baby has only one cup of blood in his/her body.
- Samsung means ‘3 stars' in Korean.
- Bin laden's death was announced on 1st May 2011. Hitler's death was announced on 1st May 1945.
- The following can be read forwards and backwards: Do geese see God?
- The Pokemon Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan are based off of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.
- Hewlett-Packard's name was decided in a coin toss.
- The lion used in Metro Goldwyn Mayer logo killed his trainer the next day after it was filmed.
- Tears caused by happines, sadness and onions look different under the microscope.
- Mewtwo is a clone of Pokemon Mew, yet it comes before Mew in the Pokedex.
- The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the world.
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