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Fascinating Facts About These Biggest Brands that We Bet You Did Not Know
Here are some interesting facts about World's top brands that you might not know. There's so much that goes into the making of a brand especially one that affects millions of lives every day. These inspiring companies have come a really long way since their inception and there's so much about them that we still don't know. Check out these fascinating facts about some of the World's Biggest Brands:
Apple
The Name "Macintosh" Was Inspired by an Apple.
Apple employee Jef Raskin came up with the name Macintosh for the machine after his favorite variety of apples.
The bite in Apple's logo was added so it wouldn't be confused with a cherry.
The original logo included Isaac Newton perching under an apple tree.
The name iPod was inspired by the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The EVA Pod (ePod) used in the movie was the direct inspiration in naming the iPod during a brainstorming session.
Amazon
Amazon was almost named "Cadabra," which is short for the magic term, "abracadabra."
But eventually was named after "Amazon", world's largest river as Jeff Bezos was set out to create the world's largest bookstore.
There are about 6,000 dogs that "work" at Amazon HQ in Seattle - they even have a dog park on-site.
It started when in the early days of Amazon.com, a husband and wife team brought their Welsh corgi, Rufus, to work with them, and he became a surprisingly productive part of the team.
When Amazon first started, they rang a bell every time a customer made a purchase.
And everyone would gather around to see if they knew the customer.
Amazon has a building named after its first customer, John Wainwright
On April 3, 1995 (much before the site opened to the general public), he purchased Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter for $27.95.
Domino’s
Half of the stake in Domino's Pizza was once traded for a used car
After eight months of running the business as a partnership, James Monaghan decided to trade his stake to his brother for a used Volkswagen Beetle.
Domino's was originally going to be called “DOMINICK'S.”
The restaurant became “Domino's” in 1965, a title invented by delivery driver Jim Kennedy.
IN 2009, Domino's accidentaly gave away nearly 11,000 free pizzas as a result of a promo code mishap.
After Rick Broida posted on his blog on CNET that customers could get a free one-topping pizza by ordering online and using the coupon code “BAILOUT" which was never intended to be a real promotion.The original coupon code was discovered by trial and error by one of Broida’s readers.
Only Half of Facebook Users Speak English. Facebook has over 100 languages to choose from.
For non-English speakers is that Facebook has over 100 languages to choose from.
Facebook's iconic blue-and-white color scheme is the product of Mark Zuckerberg's own color blindness.
So Facebook's cool blue is a color that works for him
You can change your language on facebook to Pirate
1. Go to Settings>Language and press the EDIT facebook language button
2. Right click the drop down menu and choose "Inspect"
3. In the element inspector click the arrow next to " 5. Close the inspector, and change your language into "Af-Soomaali"
Zuckerberg and his wife have been blocked so many times on Facebook that the site's algorithm doesn't allow you to block them anymore.
This error isn't specific to any one account. It's generated when a person has been blocked a certain large number of times.
Al Pacino was the first “face” on Facebook displayed as a header image behind binary code.
Earlier the identity of the man could not be seen clearly, but it later came out that the icon was infact the great actor Al Pacino.
The first tweet from Google was: “I’m feeling lucky” in binary code.
It reads, “I'm 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010”.
Google is derived from the word Googol.
Googol is a very large number. Its a 1 with 100 zero’s.
Google negotiated its acquisition of YouTube’s at Denny’s over mozzarella sticks.
In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing today, YouTube co-founder Steven Chen revealed the whole story.
In 2006 Google gave Mountain View, a town in California, the gift of free Wi-Fi.
It's where Google's main headquarters is located.
The company’s unofficial motto is, “Don’t be evil.”
The phrase used in Google's corporate code of conduct, which it also formerly preceded as a motto.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford when Brin was asked to show Page, who was a new student, around the school.
Brin was already enrolled in Stanford's PhD program when Page arrived in 1995.
As part of their green initiative, Google regularly rents goats to mow the lawns of their mountain view HQ.
The employees claim they find it calming to see goats outside the windows.
Google uses a web tool called foo.bar to recruit new employees based on what they search for online.
The system has been used by Google for at least a year and is triggered when a user enters certain search terms relating to coding languages like Python and Java.
Twitter’s Bird called Larry
The inspiration behind the name was Larry Bird, the basketball legend.
Alwyn Collinson has been narrating the World War two on Twitter for over an year now.
He began his six-year project on 31 August, on the eve of the invasion of Poland by Germany.
Ending a tweet with an empty hashtag is called an "Hangtag"
and it's Twitter's version of the mic drop
Netflix
According to Netflix you decide on a movie in 2 minutes.
Netflix typically considered a movie or episode to be “viewed” if someone had watched at least 70%.
Netflix hired a Spoiler Expert.
A Spoiler Expert is a cultural anthropologist who examines spoilers within the context of binge-watching.
Netflix had their own awards show called the "Flixies" in 2013.
It was a brief experiment, which wasn't a very serious awards show
Netflix was originally called "Kibble"
Imagine saying "Kibble and Chill"
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