This informative post will be posted on Saturday along with my usual writing. We can all appreciate some of the lesser known facts from around the world.
The popular website Yahoo! got its name from a word thought up by Jonathan Swift and used in his classic, GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, to mean “rude, unsophisticated, uncouth.” The exclamation point was necessitated by law, added for trademark purposes after it was discovered that a brand of Yahoo barbecue sauce and a line of Yahoo knives already existed.
Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges.
These facts have been discovered in I NEVER KNEW THAT by David Hoffman (2009).
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I always thought it came from Yet Another Hierarchial Officious Oracle!
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Wow! Sounds like a line right out of “Seinfeld.” Is Kramer in the house?
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🙂
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Never knew the origin of Yahoo!
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Honestly, I am like you. Now we know the mystery behind the exclamation point.
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Indeed!
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