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Let's try and get one new one every day.

The word "google" was first used in the 1927 Little Rascals silent film "Dog Heaven", used to refer to a having a drink of water.

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Wikipedia (name coined by Larry Sanger) is a multilingual, Web-based, free content encyclopedia project. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers; its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Web site
Wikipedia was launched as the English Wikipedia on January 15, 2001

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[KNTL] was originally formed by a small group, KillingSpree, liquidat0r & delusion but delusion was traitor and started to play wow...
The name "Kill Now Think Later" was thought up by KillingSpree, hawt James hawt!

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The idea for hypertext was written by a man named Vannevar Bush in 1945.

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Shit:

In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship.  It was also before commercial fertilizer's invention, so large shipments of manure were common.  It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, it not only became heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of which a by-product is methane gas. As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you can see what could (and did) happen.  Methane began to build up below decks and the first time someone came below at night with a lantern, BOOOOM!
Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was determined just what was happening.  After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the term "Ship High In Transit" on them which meant for he sailors to stow it high enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.
Thus evolved the term "S.H.I.T." which has come down through the centuries and is in use to this very day.  You probably did not know the true history of this word.

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Word/Name [FIN]Dami3n means same as ultimate ownage!

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Il Postino Pat was a sketch created by Harry Enfield

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