Spot the Difference

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.

The inventor of Life Savers, Clarence Crane, got the idea of making them round rather than square (which was the most common shape of candy at the time) after she visited a pharmacy and watched how pills were cut into small round shapes.

Research from Britain has shown that the most commonly lost items are keys, phones, pens and glasses. That’s hardly surprising. What comes as a bit of a shock, though, is that the average person loses a staggering 3,000 possessions over the course of their lifetime, including 64 umbrellas!