2015 History, Trivia and Fun Facts

• The Internet: Between 2000-2015, Google had an informal motto of Don't be Evil. The idea was to have a motto that "once you put it in there, would be hard to take out". When Google began to track users in 2012, there was a public backlash to the motto.
  The motto was replaced by Do the Right Thing in 2015.
• The Top Song was Uptown Funk! by Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars
• The Big Movies included Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World and Avengers: Age of Ultron
• Price of a gallon of gas in 2015: $2.51
• The World Population was ~ 7,250,000,000
• Selfie RIP: 39 people died while taking a selfie in 2015, the same year Disney banned selfie sticks from all its theme parks worldwide.
• In 2015 there was an estimated 610,042 humans sleeping in bus stops, abandoned buildings, makeshift campsites, motels, inside parked cars or in public spaces in the US.
• Junior Fight Club: Two day care employees at Lightbridge Academy in Cranfird, New Jersey were imprisoned for running a toddler fight club among a dozen boys and girls aged 4-6.
• $3.19 was the average Tooth Fairy Rate for a Tooth in 2015.
• And... 10 Billion Kuerig pods were produced in 2015.

Among the words added to the dictionary in 2015 were Masshole, twerk, fo'shizzle, stanky, and twitterati.

Benjamin Careathers filed a class action lawsuit against RedBull in 2015, stating that after 10 years of consuming the product, he received no wings, or enhanced physical or intellectual performance, as their ads suggested. Redbull lost the 13,000,000 suit.

Eminem was commended in the 2015 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most words in a hit single, Rap God, totaling 1,560 words in 6 minutes, 4 seconds.

A research study on the efficiency of mosquito repellents found that Victoria’s Secret’s Bombshell perfume actually repelled mosquito’s better than nearly all the other non-DEET products.

The population of London in 2015 exceeded its 1939 population by only one person.

The Neiman Marcus Hholiday Catalog featured a $150,000 motorcycle that comes with a 2-day ride along the California Coast with actor Keanu Reeves.

Disney banned selfie sticks from all its theme parks worldwide.

A new frog, Hyalinobatrachium dianae, was discovered. It's noteworthy because they look a lot like Sesame Street's Kermit The Frog.

In 2015, Costco sold more than 128 million hot dogs in their food courts. That's four times the amount of hot dogs sold in all MLB ballparks combined.

Researchers built a bot capable of playing classic Atari 2600 games after learning the rules of the game itself. The bot was able to attain a level equivalent to 'a professional human games tester'.

Foo Fighter's frontman Dave Grohl broke his leg on stage during a show in Sweden. He returned to the show and finished the concert while sitting in a chair.

2015 is 11111011111 in binary, making it year a palindrome year. We won't have another one of these until 2047.

$3.19 was the average Tooth Fairy Rate for a Tooth in America.

A French court renamed a baby 'Ella' after the judge ruled that the parents’ decision to the name the child "Nutella" was not in the child's best interest

US home ownership rates have not changed very much in the last few decades... 2015 and 1967 were the same (63.4%) and it's never been over 70%.

It was illegal for the British monarch to be Catholic, or even married to a Catholic, until 2015.

Until 2015, more people had stood on the moon (12) than had completed a continuous thru-hike of the Grand Canyon.

Rapper J. Cole graduated from St. John's University in 2009, but did not receive his diploma until 2015 due to an overdue library book.

The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum displayed Wonder Woman's famous Invisible Jet for one day, on April 1, 2015.

The world population living in extreme poverty went from 94% of the world population in 1820, down to 9.6% of the world population in 2015.

Oklahoma City once had the most cafeterias per capita and was known as "Cafeteria Capital of the World." The last cafeteria in OKC closed in 2015.

In 1917, during WWI, Sgt Henry "Black Death" Johnson was wounded 21 times from a German Soldier raid, and he was posthumously awarded the Medal Of Honor. He was the first American in WWI to be awarded the Croix De Guerre by France. Racism was still a barrier and was never recognized by the U.S. until 2015.

Godzilla was named an official citizen and tourism ambassador of Japan in 2015.

Japan lifted its 67-year old ban on dancing after midnight.

Cost of a 30 second Superbowl ad: 4.5 Million dollars

(according to boxofficemojo)
1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2. Jurassic World
3. Avengers: Age of Ultron
4. Inside Out
5. Furious 7
6. Minions
7. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
8. The Martian
9. Cinderella
10. Spectre

Avengers: Age of Ultron, Cinderella, Furious 7, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, Inside Out, Jurassic World, The Martian, Minions, Spectre, Star Wars: The Force Awakens