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OK, “blow your mind” is a bit dramatic. But Amazing Facts You’ll Probably Enjoy and Like….

 Google’s founders were willing to sell to Excite for under $1 million in 1999—but Excite turned them down.

. There was a third Apple founder. Ronald Wayne (pictured at home in 2010) sold his 10% stake for $800 in 1976.

 

 According to Amazon, the most highlighted Kindle books are the Bible, the Steve Jobs biography, and The Hunger Games.

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 A California woman once tried to sue the makers of Cap’n Crunch because Crunch Berries contained “no berries of any kind.”

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 In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teens thought Sherlock Holmes was a real guy, while 20% thought Winston Churchill was not.

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 At one point in the 1990s, 50% of all CDs produced worldwide were for AOL.

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 A British man changed his name to Tim Pppppppppprice to make it harder for telemarketers to pronounce.

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 J.P. Morgan once offered $100,000 to anyone who could figure out why his face was so red. No one solved the mystery.

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Prairie dogs say hello with kisses.

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 Jonas Salk declined to patent his polio vaccine. “There is no patent,” he said. “Could you patent the sun?”

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* The 50-star American flag was designed by an Ohio high school student for a class project. His teacher originally gave him a B–.

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. After leaving office, Lyndon Johnson let his hair grow out.

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Sean Connery turned down the Gandalf role in Lord of the Rings. “I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don’t understand it.”

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 If you start counting at one and spell out the numbers as you go, you won’t use the letter “A” until you reach 1,000.

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The medical term for ice cream headaches is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.

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 After Leonardo da Vinci’s death, King Francis I of France hung the Mona Lisa in his bathroom.

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In Spain, Mr. Clean is known as Don Limpio.

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 In Qaddafi’s compound, Libyan rebels found a photo album filled with pictures of Condoleezza Rice.

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Marie Curie’s notebooks are still radioactive. Researchers hoping to view them must sign a disclaimer.

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When three-letter airport codes became standard, airports that had been using two letters simply added an X.

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Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.

For more amazing facts follow @mental_floss on Twitter. Images courtesy of Getty Images and Thinkstock. Ronald Wayne image via Karen T. Borchers/MCT/Landov.