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•  The name Google is actually derived from the mathematical term 'googol' which is basically 1 with a 100 zeros following it.
• 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. 
• Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Bin originally named Google Backrub
• The first ever Google Doodle was a Burning Man stick figure that came out on August 30, 1998
• One gram of your DNA could store all of Facebook and Google's data.
• Google owns common misspellings of its own name as well, such as www.gooogle.com, www.gogle.com, and www.googlr.com
• The first Google computer storage was built with Legos
• Because Gmail first launched on April 1st of 2004, many people thought it was an April Fools' Day prank
• Google bought YouTube for US$1.65 billion in stocks just 18 months after YouTube's creation.
• On August 16, 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and in that time, the global Internet traffic dropped by 40%.
• The domain GoogleSucks.com is owned by Google.
• Every minute,2 million searches are performed on Google
•  Google wanted to sell itself to online company Excite in 1999 for $1 million, but the Excite CEO rejected the offer
• YouTube is the second largest search engine, right after Google. It's bigger than Bing, Yahoo!, and Ask combined.
• There's a rotated version of Google known as 'Google Mirror', which shows everything in a mirrored avatar
•  No part of a Google office is allowed to be more than 150 feet away from some kind of food
• A single Google search requires more computing power than it took to send Apollo 11 to the Moon.
• If you search for "atari breakout" in Google Images, you can play the game.
  
• Facebook's first annual Hacker Cup coding challenge was won by a programmer at Google. He showed up at Facebook headquarters to collect his prize wearing his Google employee badge.
• The total size of Google Earth's database is over 20 Petabytes.
• When Gmail was introduced by Google with an unbelievable 1GB free storage in 2004, Hotmail only offered 2MB.
• The woman who rented her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 when they were creating Google later became the CEO of YouTube .
• Google handles over 2 trillion searches per year. That's about 270 searches per person on Earth.
• The CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, was the first female employee at Google, in 1999.