HIGHLIGHTS:  Here are some random facts for you:  The Oscar statuette is actually called the “Academy Award of Merit.”  And 45.5% of all websites have a domain with “.com.”

FULL STORY:  Here are some random facts for you . . .

1.  The Oscar statuette is actually called the “Academy Award of Merit.”  There are many theories as to how it came to be called Oscar, but no one knows for sure.

Bette Davis claimed she nicknamed the award after her first husband Harmon Oscar Nelson . . . but others say it happened before that in 1931, when a librarian and Academy executive named Margaret Herrick saw the award and said it looked like her “Uncle Oscar.”  And there are others as well.

Regardless, the nickname was officially adopted in 1939.

2.  The guy who designed the Oscar statue went on to win 11 of them himself.  Cedric Gibbons was a production designer who won Oscars for Best Art Direction on movies like “An American in Paris” and “The Bad and the Beautiful”.

3.  The most common domain extension is .com.  45.5% of all websites have a domain with .com.  The second-most common is .org.  And the third most popular is .ru, which belongs to Russia.

4.  Billy Crystal turned down the chance to be Buzz Lightyear in “Toy Story”, so it went to Tim Allen.  When Pixar found out Billy Crystal called it the biggest mistake of his career, they offered him the role of Mike in “Monsters, Inc.” . . . and he accepted.

5.  Cisco released a product called the iPhone in 1998.  It was a desk phone with a sliding keyboard and a touch screen.  It flopped . . . but they still sued Apple for using the name nine years later.  The lawsuit was eventually settled.

(Wikipedia / Wikipedia / W3 Techs / ScreenRant / Wikipedia)