FASCINATING Facts You Never Knew About GOOGLE!

FASCINATING Facts You Never Knew About GOOGLE!

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FASCINATING Facts You Never Knew About GOOGLE!

For those of you that are young, there was actually once a time when you had to physically go into a

big dusty building called a Library and actually open books to get information which was already outdated.

But today, we have the worlds information at our fingertips and almost all of us use Google every single day. Well, some of us use Bing. But have you ever wondered how Google came to be?

Well, in this Facts In Five, I'm going to explain everything that you need to to know about Google. The story of Google and how it works is an incredible one that I wanna share with you, right now.

So, without further a due this is weird facts, all about Google.

What is Google?

Google Incorporated is a multinational technology company, which specializes in internet related services and products. Which, is just a fancy way of saying Google does a lot of internety stuff.

The subsidiary of the parent company Alphabet, as of December 2013, it was officially named the most visited website on the planet.

Most of Google's money is made through advertisements displayed by search results, a system the company calls, Adwords. Other website owners and us Youtubers can take advantage of Adwords by allowing Google to place ads on the pages and content, likely, before this video there was a pre-roll ad

or there is an ad on the side of your screen right now, or one that just popped up, that's all from Adwords.

Who created Google?

In 1995, Larry Page, a graduate from the University of Michigan was considering Stanford as a follow up school. There, Stanford student, Sergey Brin, was a scientist showing him around and the two fast became friends. 

Destine to create the most famous website on earth. Originally the search engine was called Backrub and it operated strictly on Stanford servers for the first year of it's life but of course the bandwidth soon became way too much. And on September 15th of 1997, Google dot com was registered. 

The site was named after Google, a term in mathematics that represents one followed by 100 zeroes and signifies Larry's and Sergey's goal of organizing a seemingly endless amount of online information,

which sounds impossible except they're pretty much doing it.

Where is Google?

Though it's main head quarters is a colossal facility in Mountain View California, Google lives in over a million servers housed in data centers around the globe. In 2009 the search engine recorded over one billion searches conducted everyday. Greatly surpassing every other search engine in existence. Additionally, Google has been inquiring more than one company per week since 2010 and increasing both it's size and the amazing things the corporation can both achieve and offer their dedicated users. 

Today, Google is not only a household name, it is literally a synonym for search. So, in a way, to answer the question, where's Google, it's not an exaggeration to say "everywhere!"

When is Google useful?

You may not know this but Google is useful for a number of things, way beyond, what the company advertises.

For instance, Google search can be used for your alarm clock! Yeah, that's right! You can activate it by typing in the number of minutes before you'd like an alarm followed by the word timer, try it. With Google Earth, you can fly a virtual plane through the scenery by hitting ctrl alt and A. And, with the zoom feature you can adjust the map to see live cloud coverage. 

Also, believe it or not, you can actually use Google to plan your wedding!

In all of that is literally just the tip of the iceberg. 

Why is Google so great?

In addition to being the most famous and arguably the most successful website in history, Google also,

just might be the greatest company too. So many wonderful stories come from Google's employees who simply love their jobs. There are many stories from them that brag about how well they're treated.

In fact, should an employee meet their untimely end while working for Google, 50 percent of their annual salary will go to their spouse or domestic partner for the following 10 years.

And Google also promotes a healthy lifestyle offering their employees multiple gourmet eating options right on site. With the incredible opportunities that they provide and the fact that they clearly care about their employees, Google has one hell of a head start on any of their competition for the best place to work.

Of course, Apple's up there too but I don't want to start a flame war in the comments. "Apple's better!"
"Google's better!" It's just-- It's gonna happen anyway, isn't it.

And that's all for this article guys, thank you so much for reading.

As always, if you want to learn anything more about what I talked about in this artcile, let's discuss

my sources in the comments. 

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10 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS That Were Based on REAL PEOPLE!

10 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS That Were Based on REAL PEOPLE!

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FICTIONAL CHARACTERS That Were Based on REAL PEOPLE

When we watch a movie or a TV show, or even read a book, we are often most intrigued by the characters in the story. Generally speaking, the weirder or more bizarre a character is, the better the story becomes, which is why we love fiction, because those characters are far more interesting than anyone else that could exist in real life, right?

Well what you might not know is that the characters in some of the most famous stories aren't fiction at all. In fact, they were based on real people. 

In this article, We gathered the most interesting ones to share with you all. So here they are : 10 fictional characters that were based on real people!

Number 1 : Severus Snape

The infamous Severus Snape from the Harry Potter universe was based off a real chemistry teacher named John Nettleship. But Nettleship wasn't just any chemistry teacher, he taught author J. K. Rowling while she attended Wyedean School while growing up in England.

During her time there, she didn't take much of a liking to Nettleship, which is why she decided to immortalize her chemistry teacher as the shady, potion-teaching, Professor Snape. See, this is exactly why teachers need to be nice to students, because you never know which ones might grow up and mention you unfavorably in their creative works, Miss McLellan from grade school.

Number 2 : Rocky Balboba

The most iconic fictional boxer of all time, Rocky Balboa was based off a real fighter, named Chuck Wepner. 

Wepner was a boxer that never made it to the big time, but did get a chance to fight Muhammad Ali in 1975. The famous fight went on until Wepner was eventually knocked out by Ali in the 15th and final round. Even though he didn't win the fight, the fact that he lasted so long against Ali inspired a young actor, named Sylvester Stallone, who watched the fight on TV, to write the script for Rocky, and the rest is history.

Number 3 : Krusty The Clown

If you're afraid of clowns, prepare yourself.

While growing up in Portland, Oregon, Simpsons creator Matt Groening used to watch a television program that featured a real life clown named Rusty Nails. As an adult, Groening was inspired to create the character of Krusty the Clown based on the mannerisms and persona of the famous clown that he watched as a child.

It makes a lot more sense now why he created a weird-ass cartoon series of people with yellow skin and only eight fingers. He grew up watching a crazy-ass clown with a terrifying name like Rusty Nails.

Number 4 : Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes, the most famous fictional detective of all time, was based off a real Scottish lecturer from the 19th century, named Doctor Joseph Bell.

Bell was a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and was known for his incredible observational skills and superior intelligence. In fact, he was famous for being able to observe a man and instantly deduce things he couldn't possibly have known.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was an acquaintance of Bell, and was inspired to create the character after Bell begin advising police in several investigations in Scotland. 

Number 5 : James Bond

James Bond, the debonaire super spy that's been played by actors like Sean Connery and Daniel Craig, was based off a real British spy, named Forest Yeo-Thomas. 

Yeo-Thomas was known as one of the UK's top spies during World War II, who infiltrated enemy territory to carry out secret missions. He was captured and tortured by the Gestapo, only to escape to safety.

Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, was also once a member of British Intelligence, and although they never worked together, was inspired to create the character of James Bond from the stories of Yeo-Thomas' escape from enemy forces.

I'm just really glad Fleming gave Bond the codename of 007, instead of using Yeo-Thomas' real codename, which was White Rabbit. It doesn't exactly have the same manly ring.

Number 6 : Cosmo Kramer

One of the most famous characters from the 90's TV show, Seinfeld, was Cosmo Kramer, and, as it turns out, was very much based off a real person, named Kenny Kramer. Kenny Kramer was a former neighbor of Seinfeld co-creator, Larry David, and was known for being eccentric and always coming up with hairbrained schemes to make money. One of these schemes included renting a bus and charging people for a reality tour of his own life; one of the many ideas that was actually used in an episode of the show.

Personally, I was a huge fan of Seinfeld, and I would definitely go on this tour. Especially if it's only $37.50?

Number 7 : Indiana Jones

The famous archeologist and adventurer, Indiana Jones was based off a real-life man, named Hiram Bingham III.

Bingham was a history professor at Yale University, and, like Indiana Jones, dabbled in archeology. And, like Indiana Jones, he too was an adventurer. In fact, he was best known for discovering the ruins of Machu Picchu in 1911, first bringing them international attention. Even the famous gigantic rolling boulder scene from Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, took place in a part of Hawaii that looks

a lot like a part of Machu Picchu.

Number 8 : Popeye

The famous cartoon character, Popeye the Sailor, was indeed based off a real person, named Frank Fiegel, who grew up with the cartoon character's creator, E. C. Segar. Fiegel was known as the local tough guy who smoked a pipe, was quick to dish out an ass whooping if someone provoked him, and wasn't exactly the best-looking dude. Even Popeye's girlfriend, Olive Oyl, was based off a tall thin woman that he knew, named Dora Pascal.

Number 9 : Zorro

The legendary masked outlaw, Zorro, was based off a man born in 1829, named Joaquin Murrieta. The story of Murrieta is that his family was attacked and murdered by American miners. Unable to find justice through the legal system, he became a vigilante known as, The Robin Hood of El Dorado, who sought revenge on the men that wronged him. After his death in 1853, his name quickly became a legend, which inspired the character of Zorro, in the novella The Curse of Capistrano, in 1919.

"I always found it very interesting that Batman became more famous than Zorro, because both men are masked outlaws whose families were killed, but Zorro has that smooth, Spanish accent, whereas Batman sounds like a person with a lisp and a permanent cold."

Number 10 : Norman Bates

Norman Bates, the crazy killer from the novel turned movie, Psycho, was based off a real murderer from the 1950s, named Ed Gein. The author of the novel, Robert Bloch, lived less than one hour away from where Gein butchered two women and attempted to wear their skin like a suit. These gruesome acts gave Bloch the inspiration to create the character of Norman Bates, who dresses up as his own mother and kills his hotel guests.

Interestingly, Gein also inspired Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs. That's right, some of the scariest horror movie characters of all time actually existed. Enjoy going to bed with that knowledge.

Anyways, that's all for this list of top 10 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS That Were Based on REAL PEOPLE!, I really hope you enjoyed it, and, as it turns out, fiction isn't so fictional after all.

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Interesting Facts About Albert Einstein - Einstein facts

Interesting Facts About Albert Einstein - Einstein facts

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Albert Einstein Facts

Albert Einstein Facts you will read in this article will certainly blow your mind like they do with me. If your more for a video than reading facts : Here is a video assembling all these crazy facts about Einstein. Details and sources are in this article :

Who's Albert Einstein ?

As a child Albert Einstein was a slow learner and spoke very slowly. So much so that his parents actually feared he may have learning difficulties. Thankfully, it turned out, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Here’s some amazing facts you probably didn’t know about the man who spearheaded the theory of relativity and the world’s most renowned genius. Albert Einstein was born in Ulm in Germany on 14th March 1879. It is said that the story of Einstein’s brilliance started when he was just four years old. His father gave him a magnetic pocket compass to play with. He became obsessed with the way the needle seemed
to move around as if by magic. It’s believed that was the event from where Einstein’s deep passion for physics originated. Even as an old man, Einstein wrote about the compass, saying “I can still remember...that this experience made a deep and lasting impression on me. Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.”

Einstein became a professor at the Berlin Academy of Sciences. However, in 1933 he was visiting America just as Hitler came into power back in Einstein’s home country of Germany. Being born to Jewish parents he rightly thought it would not be a good idea to return to Germany. The Nazis were so offended by Einstein’s intellect that they burned all his books still remaining in Germany and included him on a list of enemies of the Nazi state entitled “not yet hanged” and put a $5,000 bounty on his head. Einstein responded to the Nazis by calling their actions a “spontaneous emotional outburst“ and stating that "more
than anything else in the world, they fear the influence of men of intellectual independence."

Einstein was granted refugee status and became a citizen of the United States of America, where he stayed for the remainder of his life. Einstein considered himself to be agnostic, not an atheist. He criticized personal gods, i.e. gods that are believed to resemble a human form. Einstein instead had pantheistic
beliefs. Which is the idea that the universe and nature itself, is equal to divinity, as apposed to an anthropomorphic, or human-like, god. Einstein was well known for his iconic shabby look. Which consisted of wild, uncombed hair and baggy, over-sized clothes. Also he never wore socks. He saw socks as unnecessary
and got frustrated that whenever he wore socks he got holes in them. He wouldn’t even wear
socks or comb his hair when visiting the White House.

Also part of Einstein’s “look” was his pipe. Einstein loved to smoke, whether it be cigarettes, cigars or his iconic pipe, which was his favourite method of tobacco inhalation. When he walked between his house and his office at Princeton University, he would almost always be seen leaving behind a trail of smoke. Einstein once had the following to say on the matter: “I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs.”

It was well known by everyone that knew him that Einstein had an incredibly bad memory.

He couldn’t remember most people’s names and couldn’t remember any phone numbers, including his own.

In 1952, after Israel’s first President, Israel Chaim Weizmann, died, Einstein was offered the position of Israel’s presidency, because the Israelis believed him to be the greatest Jew alive. Einstein, then aged 73, politely declined the offer. He said he lacked the “natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people”.

Einstein used to charge people for his autograph then donate all the money to charity.

Einstein was a prolific adulterer. During his first marriage to Mileva Maric, Albert had at least six affairs with other women. Knowing that his marriage was falling apart, Einstein made one final attempt at keeping the marriage together, for the sake of this children. So what did he do exactly? He demanded his wife signed a contract he drew up in order to maintain the impression that they were a happily married couple. The contract included the following clauses:

“You will make sure… - that my clothes and laundry are kept in good order; - that I will receive my three meals regularly in my room;

You will renounce all personal relations with me insofar as they are not completely necessary for social reasons. Specifically, you will forego…

- my sitting at home with you; - my going out or traveling with you.

You will obey the following points in your relations with me…

- you will not expect any intimacy from me, nor will you reproach me in any way;

- you will stop talking to me if I request it;

- you will leave my bedroom or study immediately without protest if I request it.”

Way to be tactful Albert. Amazingly his wife actually agreed to the terms, after much persuasion.

After he divorced Mileva Maric in 1919, Einstein married his cousin, Elsa Loewenthal.

She was very closely related to Einstein; he was actually related to her on both sides of his family. They had played together as kids but their romance didn’t flourish until later on in their lives.

Einstein’s favourite hobbies were sailing and playing the violin. But neither came close to his love for theoretical physics. Einstein would play the violin to himself when he became stuck in the thinking process whilst practicing physics.

The prestigious Nobel Prize was awarded to Albert Einstein in 1921. But not for his work on the theory of relativity. He actually got it for his work on helping to discover the photoelectric effect. Which is the now, well known phenomenon, that metals emit electrons when light is shined upon them.

However all of Einstein’s Nobel Prize money went to his ex-wife, Mileva, as a divorce settlement.

About a week after Einstein died in 1955 at Princeton, before being cremated, an autopsy was performed on his body by Thomas Harvey, a pathologist at Princeton University. He removed Einstein’s brain for study, which he intended to kept permanently as a keepsake and personal research project. Harvey was eventually fired from Princeton after refusing to hand over Einstein’s brain. After finding it wasn’t any different to a normal brain, Harvey dissected it into over 200 pieces, some of which he sent off to other researchers
for examination. It was eventually discovered that Einstein’s parietal lobes, the parts of the brain responsible for mathematical, visual and spatial cognition, were 15% larger than the average person’s.

Einstein’s brain was eventually transferred and put on display at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. His eye’s however were also removed and handed to Henry Abrams, Einstein’s eye doctor. To this day they remain in a safe deposit box in New York City.

Einstein’s last words are not known because he said them in German and the only person that heard them was a night nurse who only spoke English. But all these facts pale in comparison to the most amazing fact about Albert Einstein.

In 1905 whilst working in Bern, Switzerland, Einstein published a paper on his Special Theory of Relativity”. Which challenged the world’s idea of how space and time behaves in the universe and set the tone of theoretical physics for the next century, and counting.

The ideas Einstein put forward in this revolutionary paper had enormous consequences that completely
changed the way we think about, mass, energy, space and time.

Oh and by the way, Einstein published over 300 scientific papers over his lifetime.

His paper on the Special Theory of Relativity also included, what has become the most famous equation in the world, E=mc2, otherwise known as the mass-energy equivalence. On a very basic level it is the concept that the mass of any object is a measure of how much energy is contained within it. There were actually numerous scientists who all claimed to have discovered the equation around the same time. But it was eventually decided that Albert Einstein should be given the credit for it as he put the most effort into its discovery.

E=mc2 gave rise to the atomic bomb and the nuclear arms race. Knowing that he was mostly responsible for causing the atomic bomb’s eventual discovery, Einstein slipped into a period of great depression. He believed himself to be a pacifist.

In 1915, Einstein completed his General Theory of Relativity, which implied the existence of black holes and gravitational waves and many other things, up until which point had been nothing more than hypotheses. Together with his Special Theory of Relativity, Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity formed the Theory of Relativity. The cornerstone of modern physics and arguably the most important discovery in physics of the past century.

Sure the Theory of Relativity is used every day by physicists in their increasingly complex endeavours. But its effects can be seen in our everyday lives too. None of the following things would be possible without Einstein’s two theories of relativity: GPS systems, televisions, nuclear power plants, remote control devices, lasers, DVD-players and many others. Oh and I nearly forgot to mention, the universe itself.

Interesting Facts About Albert Einstein - Einstein facts