Trending badgeTrendingPosted 1 hour agoSubscribe to BuzzFeed Daily NewsletterCaret DownHere Are 18 Very, Very, Very Shocking And Interesting Facts That They Would NEVER Teach You In History ClassBookmark this for the next time you need to win an argument or trivia night.by Brian GalindoBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink 1. The US version of The Office was almost canceled after its first season due to low ratings and mixed reviews. NBC executives were also unsure if the mockumentary-style sitcom would ever connect with American audiences. However, everything changed a few months after the show premiered, when Steve Carell starred in the 2005 box office hit The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which made him a big star. NBC also did something unusual for the time: it began selling the first season of The Office on iTunes, where it would go on to be a huge success (selling 100,000 copies). Carell's rising fame and the success of the show's digital sales led NBC to decide to renew it for a second season. NBC / NBCUniversal via Getty Images 2. "...
Baby One More Time" has the somewhat confusing "Hit me, baby, one more time" lyrics. Well, that was actually a mistake. The Swedish songwriters of the song, who didn't really speak English well, Max Martin and Rami Yacoub, thought that "hit" was brand new American slang for "call" (likely confusing "hit" with the phrase "hit me up"). So, Britney is actually singing about begging her ex-boyfriend to call her on the phone. Britney Spears/ SMG / Via youtube.com Martin and Yacoub wrote the song for TLC (who famously turned it down) because they were inspired by the group's single "Baby-Baby-Baby." 3. Tickle Me Elmo was almost Tickle Me Taz - as in the Tasmanian Devil from Looney Tunes. The creators of Tickle Me Elmo, Greg Hyman and Ron Dubren, initially created a chimp that laughed as a prototype toy for Tyco, and thought it would make a great Elmo toy. Tyco liked the idea of the toy. However, they didn't have the rights to make Sesame Street plush toys (only plastic toys), but they did have the rights to make Looney Tunes plush toys, and thought Taz would work great for it. James Keyser / Getty Images Six months later, while Tickle Me Taz was still in development, Tyco got the rights to create Sesame Street plush toys, and they pitched Tickle Me Elmo as a toy they could create if they had the rights. 4. The first handbag famously named after a celebrity is the Hermès "Kelly" bag, inspired by Grace Kelly. In the 1950s, she was photographed using a Hermès Sac à Dépêches (a bag first introduced in the 1930s) to discreetly hide her baby bump, and the image became iconic. Public demand for the style grew, and in 1977, Hermès officially renamed it the "Kelly" in her honor. Bettmann / Bettmann Archive / Getty Images Kelly was reportedly first introduced to the bag by costume designer Edith Head, who styled her with Hermès accessories, including the bag, for the film To Catch A Thief. It's considered the original celebrity-named designer bag that paved the way for others like the Birkin, the Jackie, and the Diana. 5. Our use of the phrase "flying saucers" started on June 24, 1947, after Kenneth Arnold, an amateur pilot from Idaho, saw nine lit-up "circular-type" objects flying in formation near Mount Rainier, Washington. When Arnold (center) landed, he reported what he saw, calculating that they were flying at around 1,700 mph and that they moved like "a saucer if you skip it across water." News of the sighting spread quickly, and when the newspapers picked up the story, they accidentally described them as "flying saucers." Bettmann / Bettmann Archive / Getty Images The sighting over Mount Rainier - which happened a couple of weeks before the supposed Roswell crash - started a rash of alleged sightings across the US and was the most well-known UFO sighting of the 1940s. 6. Steve Jobs wanted to call the iMac MacMan. In fact, according to Ken Segall, who was the creative director at Apple's ad agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day, and came up with the name iMac, Jobs really liked the name MacMan and was "fixated" on it. Jobs did approach the agency just to see if they had any better suggestions, saying, "I have a name that I really like, we're going to go with it, but if you guys can do better we need you to do better within the next two weeks." Universalimagesgroup / Getty Images Segall said that a week later, they met with Jobs and presented him with five names, saving iMac for last because he thought "it was the killer name." However, Jobs hated the name iMac, too. A week later, Segall presented Jobs with three more names and also brought up that he still liked iMac as a name. Jobs hated the three new names, but said about iMac, "I don't hate it this week, but I don't like it either, so now you've got two days." Segall said that the next day, a friend at Apple called him to tell him Jobs had used iMac on one of the models and that it was getting good reactions. The rest was history. 7. In 2008, at its pe