Amazingly Awesome Facts About Awesome Things
Awesome! Facebook's "Like" button was introduced in 2010, and according to engineers, it was called the "Awesome" button. Well done, Facebook. Here are 24 (quite random and obscure) facts!
Awesome Things Facts
24. Untaken
Liam Neeson had two hit movies with Taken and Taken 2. In 2014, Neeson announced he'd agreed to do the third film in the franchise, but only under one condition: he said of directors, “They called me up and I said “I’ll do it… but only as long as nobody gets Taken.”
23. Awesome
It’s hard to remember a time before Facebook’s “Like” button, but the button was only integrated into the platform in 2010—six years after Facebook debuted in 2004, and four years after it opened to the general public in 2006.
According to engineers at Facebook, the “Like” button was originally called the “Awesome” button—I wonder how many “Awesomes” this post would have gotten?
22. Supreme Dunk
In the US judicial system, it goes state court, federal court, Supreme court and…. basketball court? On the fifth floor of the Supreme Court Building in Washington DC, there is a full gym that includes a basketball court—it’s known as “
the Highest Court in the Land.”
