Google receives more than 200 million search queries a day, more than half of which come from outside the United States. Peak traffic hours to google.com are between 6 a.m. and noon PST, when more than 2,000 search queries are answered a second.

The city of Tokyo was originally called Edo.

Until the 19th century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.

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