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    Random Darknet Shopper
    There's a bot called the 'Random Darknet Shopper' that is given $100 in bitcoins every week to purchase random items on the darkweb. It ended up buying 10 ecstasy pills and the creator was subsequently arrested.
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    The ‘@’ sign is centuries old, and was used in Europe to denote a unit of weight (the “arroba”) equivalent to 25 lbs.
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    There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
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    The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
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    Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!
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    In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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    Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
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    On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
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