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study says website typos can earn Google $497 million per year
With help from software, the researchers crawled 285,000 of some 900,000 “misspelled” sites to estimate what revenue the domains are generating.Scale those results, and you’re looking at some serious coin: Expanding to the top 100,000 sites, retaining the 0.7% estimated ratio of typosquatting site, we estimate that typo domains collectively receive at least 68.2 million daily visitors. If these typo domains were treated as a single website, that site would be ranked by Alexa as the 10th most popular website in the world. It would be more popular, in unique daily visitors, than twitter.com, myspace.com, or amazon.com!
via URL typos earn Google $497 million per year, study says | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com.
U.S. Currency Fun Facts: You would have to double-fold a U.S. currency note about 4,000 times before it would tear.
You would have to double-fold a U.S. currency note about 4,000 times before it would tear.
Why is Boston called Beantown?
Back in colonial days, a favorite Boston food was beans baked in molasses for several hours. Back then, Boston was sort of awash in molasses – it was part of the “triangular trade” in which slaves in the Caribbean grew sugar cane to be shipped to Boston to be made into rum to be sent to West Africa to buy more slaves to send to the West Indies. Even after the end of this practice, Boston continued as big rum producing city – the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 (which killed 21), ocurred when a tank holding molasses for rum production exploded.
Today, Boston baked beans are something of a rarity – there are no companies in the city making it and only a few restaurants serve it. If you want to try it yourself, here’s a Boston baked beans recipe
via The Boston FAQ.
The odds an adult has had sex on a first date are 1 in 3.55 (US, 8/2004).
1 in 3.55
The odds an adult has had sex on a first date are 1 in 3.55 (US, 8/2004).
via Book of Odds – The odds an adult has had sex on a first date are 1 in 3.55 (US, 8/2004)..
The odds an adult who regrets getting a tattoo regrets it because he or she was too young at the time are 1 in 5 US, 1/2008.
1 in 5The odds an adult who regrets getting a tattoo regrets it because he or she was too young at the time are 1 in 5 US, 1/2008.
Facts About Oprah – did not receive her first pair of shoes until she was six years old
Oprah did not receive her first pair of shoes until she was six years old. At the age of 2 ½, she could already leave. When she started kindergarten, she wrote a note to the teacher, which insisted she should be allowed to skip kindergarten. The kindergarten teacher agreed. After skipping kindergarten and finishing first grade, she was skipped ahead to third grade.
via Interesting Facts About Oprah – Associated Content – associatedcontent.com.
Tootsie Roll Fun Facts – sell more than 60m a day, they were the first candy to be wrapped in apper and sold for a penny
When a product reaches an age advanced enough to be known as a “national institution,” it usually bears little resemblance to its original form – however, this is not the case with Tootsie Roll.
The round piece of chewy, chocolatey candy that delights Americans today still looks and tastes amazingly like the first Tootsie Roll, made over 109 years ago.
Even more astonishing, the candy roll still sells for one penny, the original price, even though the company now offers candy packages priced up to $7.17. The first penny candy to be individually wrapped in paper, Tootsie Rolls are so protected today – but the modern design of the wrapper signals that changes have occurred in the product’s long and successful story.
Tootsie Roll Industries today is one of the country’s largest candy companies, headquartered in Chicago with operations in Massachusetts, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Mexico and Toronto. Total net sales in fiscal 2004 were over Four Hundred Twenty One Million dollars.
In its 109th year, the company produces more than sixty million Tootsie Rolls per day. Also, as the world’s largest lollipop supplier, the company daily produces twenty million pops.
Click on a image to see a larger pictureTootsie Roll Historical Timeline from 1896 to the Present
1896Austrian immigrant Leo Hirshfield brings to the U.S. his recipe for a chocolatey, chewy candy, which he begins producing in a small store in New York City.
Hirshfield names the candy after his five-year-old daughter, whose nickname is “Tootsie.”
via ~Pixy Rose~~: Tootsie Roll Fun Facts.
The odds an adult will plan to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa are 1 in 1.07 US
1 in 1.07The odds an adult will plan to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa are 1 in 1.07 US, 9/2008 – 10/2008.
77 Percent Of Facebook Fan Pages Have Under 1,000 Fans
# 95% of pages have more than 10 fans
# 65% of pages have more than 100 fans
# 23% of pages have more than 1,000 fans
# 4% of pages have more than 10,000 fans
# 0.76% of pages have more than 100,000 fans
# 0.047% of pages have more than one million fans 297 in total.
via It’s Not Easy Being Popular. 77 Percent Of Facebook Fan Pages Have Under 1,000 Fans.
Macy’s Parade Fun Facts!
# The first parade was in 1924 and featured floats, clowns, bands and a few zoo animals.
# The parade was originally called “Macy’s Christmas Parade”
# In 1927 live animals were replaced with large balloons. The very first balloon was Felix The Cat.
# The parade route has only changed once, in 1945, from 145th Street and Convent Avenue to the modern day kick off at 77th Street and Central Park West.
# The parade has been held continuously from 1924, except for 1942-1944 when it was halted due to WWII.
# The parade’s first national broadcast was on NBC in 1948.
# This year’s 80th celebration will feature more than 10,000 participants and be viewed by approximately 3.5 million live spectators, with another 50 million watching on television.