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I'm Absolutely Having My Mind Blown Over These 11 Facts That Sound Completely Fake But Are Actually 100% True

January 18, 2026

Posted 5 minutes agoI'm Absolutely Having My Mind Blown Over These 11 Facts That Sound Completely Fake But Are Actually 100% TrueTIL that Crystal Pepsi was not an immediate flop. by Brian GalindoBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink 1. The original name for Google was "Backrub." NurPhoto / NurPhoto via Before it became Google, the company was called "Backrub." The name came from how the search engine worked. It analyzed the "back links" pointing to a website to figure out how important that site was.

Courteney Cox and Jennifer Aniston pose; text about saying "period" on TV. Image of Christopher Robin, real child inspiration for Winnie-the-Pooh stories

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed the project in 1996 while they were PhD students at Stanford.
They later changed the name to Google, a play on the word "googol," meaning the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
The new name better fit their goal of organizing a massive amount of information on the web.
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Courteney Cox is the first person to say "period" on TV.

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I'm Absolutely Having My Mind Blown Over These 11 Facts That Sound Completely Fake But Are Actually 100% True

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