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Google's name is a play on the word “googol”, which means the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes.
As of December 31, 2005, Google employed 5,680 full time employees. Google employees are known as Googlers, and they are a very diverse team: one operations manager is a former neurosurgeon, one software engineer is a former rocket scientist. As Google has in its philosophy: “You can be serious without a suit.”
In 2002, American Dialect Society members voted "google" the "most useful" Word of the Year. In 2006, the verb “to google” was added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary.
Skin is the largest organ of the human body with a surface area of 1.5-2.0 square meters in an average adult. Skin is 2-3 mm thick, and each 5 square cm of skin may have up to 600 sweat glands, 20 blood vessels, 60,000 melanocytes and over a thousand nerve endings.
The outermost layer of the skin is called epidermis (from Greek "epi" meaning "over"). Among many functions of the skin are protection, sensation, heat regulation, excretion of sweat and water resistance (to keep essential nutrients from washing out of the body).
5 square cm of human skin may contain up to 50 million bacteria, and on oily surfaces the amount of bacteria may reach 400 million per 5 sq. cm. However, these bacteria are so small they all could fit on one pea.
The word "vodka" is a diminutive of the Slavic voda which means water.
Vodka can be produced from grain, potatoes, molasses, soybeans, grapes, sugar beets, with rye and wheat vodkas being considered superior.
The alcohol content in vodka usually ranges from 35 to 60 percent by volume. In 1893 the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev established that the perfect percentage was 38%, but since back then the spirits were taxed depending on their strength, the percentage was rounded up to 40 to simplify the calculation of tax. Since then the classic Russian vodka is 40%. In the European Union today, the minimum alcohol content in vodka is set at 37.5%.
Salt had a huge influence on the development of ancient civilizations because of its ability to preserve food which reduced the people's dependence on the seasonal availability of food and allowed them to travel long distances.
It was a hard-to-obtain highly valued commodity, and some historians believe that Roman soldiers were sometimes paid with salt. The other historians, however, find it a misconception since word salary derives from the Latin salārium, meaning money paid to the soldiers to buy salt.
The word salad is also connected to the salt: it comes from the popular ancient Roman dish herba salata, meaning "salted vegetables".
Word "fascism" originates from Italian fascio meaning "group, association". In 1919 Benito Mussolini formed the anti-communist political movement called partito nazionale fascista.
Initially, Nazis called themselves Nasos (the abbreviation for National Socialist German Workers’ Party). Later journalist and writer Konrad Heiden used the word "nazi" as a derogatory term: "nazi" is derived from Bavarian word that means "simple-minded."
To confuse Japanese U.S. Marine Corps employed over 300 Navajo-speaking American Indians as radio code talkers for their radio transmissions in the Pacific.
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