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The decimal number system we use today seems like the obvious choice, given that we have ten fingers to count with. But in the olden days, people counted in dozens, not tens. Hence the word “hundred” – it derives from the old Norse “hundrath” and originally meant 120.

The founders of Google met by chance. Sergey Brin, a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, was assigned to show Larry Page around the prestigious campus when Page visited to see if he wanted to attend. Page, who was 22 at the time, had just finished earning a computer engineering degree from the University of Michigan.

In the 1950s when a great deal of nuclear testing was being carried out in the Nevada Desert, many tourists flocked to watch the distant mushroom rising above the clouds. This event was even accompanied by a beauty pageants called “Miss Atomic Bomb”.