For a while, a fictional city appeared on Google Maps for no apparent reason!

The nonexistent settlement, called “Argleton,” was located just east of the civil parish of Aughton in West Lancashire, England. In reality the area is just a bunch of empty fields. The supposed town was finally removed from Google Maps and Earth in January 2010 not just because it didn’t exist, but because many online information services were mistakenly listing addresses within the postage zones as being located in Argleton! 

It is not known for certain why or how Argleton began - it was most likely a mistake by a programmer at Tele Atlas, the Dutch company that provides all the information for Google’s map database. However, Argleton briefly became quite a cultural phenomenon. A year after its discovery in 2008, it was receiving around 249,000 hits on Google and had become a fairly popular hashtag on Twitter!

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Unbelievable Facts

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•   All polar bears are left handed.
•   Butterflies taste with their feet.
•    Ants never sleep.
•   A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
•  A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
•  There are 701 types of pure breed dogs

•  Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.

•  Strawberry is the only fruit with its seeds on the outside.

•  The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

•  A shrimp's heart is in their head.

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An Egyptian man named his newborn daughter "Facebook."

Gamal Ibrahim chose this name for his child in honor of the social network's role in the recent Egyptian revolution that toppled the Honi Mubarak regime. The revolt against longtime president Hosni Mubarak began on January 25th and was largely fueled by young people organizing themselves on Facebook and other social websites. "Facebook Ibrahim" does have a nice ring to it. At least it's not "MySpace Ibrahim". Mark Zuckerberg should be honored. 


In fact, many credit a Facebook page for starting the movement in the first place. Before the massive protests, a 30-year-old Egyptian marketing executive for Google named Wael Ghonim started a Facebook page called "We are all Khaled Said" in memory of a critic of the government who was beaten to death by police in June. This Facebook page quickly became a central hub and organizing tool for Egyptian protests. 

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Facebook's oldest user is 103...and she updates from an iPad.

Great-grandmother Lillian Lowe has taken the title of oldest Facebooker from 104-year-old Ivy Bean, who died in her sleep this past July. Lillian checks her wall about twice a week and is friends with 34 different people, including 7 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren!

Born in 1907, Lillian has seen all kinds of changes during her lifetime - the sinking of the Titanic, two World Wars, the first computer, and now the advent of social networking and tablet computers!

Thanks to the publicity that comes with being dubbed the oldest person on Facebook, she has recently received over 900 Facebook friend requests. She says she has also heard of Twitter, but does not know what it is.

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