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    CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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    Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
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    Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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    In October 1997, when Internet Explorer 4.0 was released, some Microsoft employees left a giant "From the IE team... We Love You" on Netscape's lawn.
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    E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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    The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
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    Random Darknet Shopper
    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 average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.
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