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Thus, his live performances of it have built on this by extending the repetitive donut verse, including an awkward, rambling apology for using the term "hermaphrodite," and on some occasions, by restarting the song from the beginning when it sounds like he is just about to wrap things up. (2/2)
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so the head chef served his patty in between two slices of toast so he could eat it on the go. The restaurant still serves burgers like this, cooked medium rare, to this day, and has become infamous for telling customers to "come back when you learn how to order" if they ask for ketchup. (2/2)
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as well as up to $2,100 to a politician who supported it. After 11 days as CEO and one board member leaving, Eich resigned from the company. He currently serves as the CEO of Brave. (3/3)
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Eich was one of the cofounders and remained at the organization before being promoted to CEO in 2014. At this point, outrage quickly spread over the fact that Eich had donated $1,000 to supporting a California ballot proposition that would ban same sex marriage in the state... (2/3)
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In the end, PepsiCo approved the name Pearl Milling Company, the name of the company that had first introduced Aunt Jemima's pancake mix in 1889, as a way to honor the history of a company that made a fortune off of a racial caricature. (2/2)
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Though the park's original themed areas still exist, its Confederacy section has since been renamed to the Old South, while the six national flags that once flew over it have been replaced by six American flags. (3/3)
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It had six themed areas, one for every sovereign nation to lay claim over Texas: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States of America, and the Confederate States of America. (2/3)
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The identity of the baby was kept secret for 50 years but was eventually revealed to be Ann Turner Cook, who grew up to become a teacher and, later in life, a writer. (3/3)
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The artist Dorothy Hope Smith submitted a sketch of a baby with the promise to finish the drawing if selected, but to her surprise, the company requested to use the sketch as is. (2/3)
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Thus, each member of the twitter dev team as it existed in 2006 sent an identical tweet not long after. (2/2)
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In the time before launch, the key spread so rapidly that Microsoft had to patch Windows XP to refuse activation if it were used. To this day, source of the key and identity of its leaker remain unknown.
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Whereas regular license keys are valid for use with a copy of Windows on one computer at a time, VLKs are specifically sold to businesses and computer manufacturers with the purpose of being reused to activate Windows on many, many different machines. (2/3)
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A tornado warning indicates that a proper tornado has indeed been spotted. (2/2)
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Though it still exists today, it can only be accessed from Google's desktop homepage. (4/4)
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"...is that it reminds you there are real people here." Over the years, the button's prominence has been diminished across Google's various UIs, with it being notably absent from the search engine's mobile apps, and from any of the built in search bars of Google Chrome. (3/4)
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the button cost the company $110 million per year. At the time, then-Google executive Marissa Mayer explained that they kept the button around because "It's possible to become too dry, too corporate, too much about making money. I think what's delightful about 'I'm Feeling Lucky'..." (2/4)
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Thus, Microsoft came to own some of Netscape's historic patents over a decade after they had last competed with the company. (3/3)
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before being promptly decimated the following decade. And in 2012, the then newly independent AOL sold a collection of patents, roughly 800 of them, to Microsoft for just over $1 billion. (2/3)
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Upon realizing that having Sam Elliott play himself would be a retread of Mayor Adam West's character, the producers asked the actor to play a cousin of Adam West named Wild West, which Elliott agreed to. (2/2)
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One: Always bet on the router.
Two: The router knew that the packet's TIME-TO-LIVE had reached ZERO. (3/3)
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The packet simply replied, "Nah, I'd live." For unbeknownst to the router, the packet was not unicast and has an anycast destination address.
In that moment, the packet thought it would truly be routed.
But it didn't know 2 key things. (2/3)