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Which world famous corporation got its name from a spelling mistake?

When Larry Page and Sergey Brin came up with the name of the new search engine, they wanted to express in it the huge amount of information that the system is capable of processing. Their colleague suggested the word "googol" - this is the name in mathematics for a number of one followed by a hundred zeros. He immediately checked the domain name for employment and, finding that it was free, registered it. Moreover, he made a mistake in writing the word: instead of the correct "googol.com" he entered "google.com", but Larry liked the newly invented word and established itself as a name.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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Based on the 1969 film Lost, NASA develops an emergency plan to rescue three astronauts trapped in orbit with a limited supply of oxygen. When the picture was released, Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 had already visited the Moon, and a few months later Apollo 13 flew, on board of which there were also three crew members and an accident also occurred. Ground support engineer Jerry Woodfil had watched The Lost just a couple of hours before and later recalled that the events of the film directly influenced the flow of reasoning and helped to make the right decisions. For example, as in the movies, the astronauts were given instructions to recharge their batteries from a spare set, which was an undocumented possibility.

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