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    Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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    'Firefox'
    'Firefox'
    The Firefox mascot isn't actually a fox, but a red panda.
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    The longest-running legal battle for a domain name is believed to be the fight for PETA.org. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued People Eating Tasty Animals to obtain the name – the case spanned from 1995 to 2001.
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    Third of All Divorce Filings State 'Facebook'
    In 2011, more than a third of all US divorce filings contained the word 'Facebook'.
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    Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
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    The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
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    The famous Windows start-up sound was composed using a Mac.
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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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