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THE TOOTH FAIRY (cont.)
• The tradition in many Asian countries, including India, China, Japan, and Korea, is to throw the child’s tooth onto the roof if it was from Answer: Dell. the lower jaw. Teeth from the upper jaw are A VERY LARGE NUMBER placed into the space beneath the floor. It is •the Edward Kasner a mathematician. Ingrow 1938 hope that the was child’s adult teeth will he was asked to come up with a name for a invery strong and sturdy the likenumeral a rodent’s, on large number: one,based followed the fact that mice’s teeth grow for their entire by a hundred zeros. He asked his two young lives. nephews what name they would suggest. • •One of the first Milton written records of the Nine-year-old suggested a tooth name out appeared of the funnies. A cartoon Hints” strip character fairy in a “Household column BarneyDaily was very popular. Milton chose innamed the Chicago Tribune in 1908. ColumBarney’s last name for the number. nist Lillian Brown wrote: “Many a refractory •child Kasner the new the big willannounced allow a loose toothname to beforremoved in his nextthe book, altering ifnumber he knows about Tooth Fairy.the If spelling. he takes little tooth andLarry putsPage it under the pillow •his Sixty years later, and Sergey Brin developed a new internet search engine. Other when he goes to bed, the tooth fairy will come engines searched eachandwebpage and insearch the night and take it away, in its place ranked them according to how many times will leave some little gift. It is a nice plan fora specific to term appeared on them, butand Page mothers visit the 5-cent counter layand in Brin designed their search engine to search for a supply of supplies to be used on such occathe specific term and then find out how many sions.” links there were that led back to that page, which resulted author, in a better search engine. • One American Vicki Lansky, advises tell theirthey children that the tooth fairy •parents They to decided needed a name that reflected many websites pays more how for a perfect tooth thanthe for search a deengineone, waswhich searching. They took thedental name cayed will encourage good of Edward Kasner’s very large number, only hygiene. they misspelled it slightly, so it ended up being • Rosemary Wells, the a professor Chicago’s spelled exactly same wayat the cartoon Northwestern University Dental character Barney spelled his last name.School, What’s conducted extensive researchofinto it called? (Answer at bottom page)the tooth fairy myth. COMPUTER One of her studies concluded that FACTS 74% believed the tooth fairy is female, 12% • In 1981 Bill Gates said, “640 kb of memory believed fairy was while 8% beought to the be enough for neither, anybody.” lieved the fairy could be either. Wells loved • Moore’s Law states that computer performance the subject so much, shemonths, openedand a tooth doubles every 18 to 24 ever fairy since museum inhas herbeen Deerfield, 1971, this true. IL home, and was even interviewed on “The Oprah Winfrey • HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple were all Show.” started in garages. Answer: Google, from googol.
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