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TIL that the word “googol” was coined by a 9 year old

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epBgg TIL that, while only being the 39th all-time most-streamed song on Spotify, Linkin Park's "Numb", combined with its remixes/live versions, is the most-streamed song of all time (1.996 bil streams) if you exclude both songs released in the past decade, & Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" (1975, 2.154 bil).
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