what are some amazing facts about yahoo ?

Kiribati is the only country in the world to fall into all four hemispheres, straddling the equator and extending into the eastern and western hemispheres. Kiribati was also the first country to see the dawn of the new millennium on Jan. 1, 2001.

Comoros is the only state with membership of the African Union, Francophonie, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Arab League (where it’s the southernmost and only member entirely within the Southern Hemisphere) and the Indian Ocean Commission. A bit confused about its national identity, maybe?

in March 1994, "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed Yahoo. Which is an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle. The "yahoo.com" domain was created on January 18, 1995. The term "hierarchical" described how the Yahoo database was arranged in layers of subcategories. The term "oracle" was intended to mean "source of truth and wisdom", and the term "officious", rather than being related to the word's normal meaning, described the many office workers who would use the Yahoo database while surfing from work.

Fiji is the only country other than India with Hindi as an official language. Native Fijians make up 54% of the population. Under British rule, Indian laborers were brought to Fiji to work on the sugarcane crops. Descendants of these laborers are called Indo-Fijians, and today they account for around 40% of the population.

Yang and Filo added the exclamation point to the end of Yahoo! because “Yahoo” was already owned by a company that produced BBQ sauce.

Transsexual people, known as Fa’afafine, are a third gender officially recognized and accepted in Samoa since at least the early 20th century.

The owners of Yahoo considered buying Google before went public. Yahoo Chief Terry Semel had dinner with Larry Page and Sergey Brin and he asked to buy Google. Then Larry and Sergey replied that they wanted $1 billion and didn't want to sell. Another dinner and Semel agreed to the $1 billion. Larry and Sergey replied that they wanted $3 billion and didn't want to sell. However, at the time Yahoo decided that a few billion dollars was too much to pay to buy out their competitor.

Liberia is one of only two countries in Africa that were not colonized by the European powers. The other is Ethiopia.

Yahoo’s email service, which they purchased from Four11 in 1997. Yahoo! acquired Four11 for $96 million. Yahoo Mail was the third-largest web-based email service with 281 million users as of December 2011 and still considered to be the most popular email program in America.

Making its second appearance on this list, Nauru does not have an official capital but Yaren is the largest settlement and the seat of parliament.

In 2006 Yahoo’s image search gained criticism for displaying sexually explicit images in their results, even when the SafeSearch was on. Less than a year later the image search feature was shut down and replaced with Yahoo’s recently acquired Flickr photo sharing community. Yahoo buy flickr for $22 to $25 million.

Red Star OS is the official and only operating system used in North Korea. It is based on Linux and was developed by the Korean Computer Center. It looks remarkably similar to Apple’s early versions of Mac OS X.

Yahoo currently owns and operates over fifty different web properties, most of which are sites that gained popularity before being acquired by Yahoo. Some examples include Geocities, Yahoo! Games, Del.icio.us, Flickr, and Upcoming.org.

The tiny island nation Niue only has a population 1,190 but is the world’s first and only wifi nation (i.e. with nationwide free access to wifi provided to citizens by the government).

One of Yahoo’s highest priced acquisitions was Broadcast.com, which they paid a reported $5.7 billion for. On the other hand, their cheapest acquisition was their purchase of Net Controls for slightly over $1 million in 1997.

Bhutan is the only country to measure happiness instead of GDP (Gross Domestic Produce). The GNH (Gross National Happiness) concept, used in Bhutan since 1972, has inspired a modern political happiness movement and in 2011 the UN General Assembly placed “happiness” on the global development agenda, adopting it unanimously.

9. In March of 2005 Yahoo celebrated it’s 10 year anniversary by giving away free Baskin Robins ice cream coupons to all of their users.

Bhutan is also a country where paintings of phallic penises are commonplace. The Bhutanese believe the immodest image of an erect penis helps fertility, offers protection from evil, and dispels spiteful gossip. The murals can be spotted painted on the walls of their homes and hanging from the eaves of their houses.

Yahoo began as a project created by two individuals and has grown to employ estimated 13,000 full time individuals.

. Lesotho, San Marino and Vatican City are the only sovereign states in the world landlocked by a single country on all sides, making them enclaves. Lesotho is landlocked by South Africa, the others by Italy.

Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995.

For a long time, Tuvalu was unable to join the United Nations because it couldn’t afford the $100,000 entrance fee. When domain names were first distributed to countries, Tuvalu received the desirable abbreviation of TV. In 2000, the country negotiated a 12-year, $50 million lease contract for its domain, and again in 2011. It has used the profits to put electricity on outer islands, create scholarships and finally join the UN.

Yahoo! stocks highest closing was at $118.75 a share on 3 January 2000. The Dot Com Bubble brought Yahoo stock to all-time low of $8.11.

There are 22 countries in the world that do not have an army, the large majority comprising tiny island states or enclaves. Incidentally, this doesn’t include the Vatican City, which has the Swiss Guard as a military corps.

In April 1994, "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo! which stood for ("Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" )