In an interview with Taylor Swift in 2005, she was told, "If music doesn't work out, you could be a hair model". Seven years later, the same woman interviewed her again and apologized for what she said.

While still in college, Bill Gates and Paul Allen once built a special purpose machine called "Traff-O-Data." It was a machine that would analyze information gathered by traffic monitors. They never found any buyers.

The name of the popular search engine 'Google' came from a misspelling of the word 'googol', which is a very, very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact).

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