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    The first webcam was used in 1991 by Cambridge researchers for checking the coffee pot without leaving their desks.
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    Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!
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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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    As of 2011, gamers have collectively spent over 6 million years playing World of Warcraft. That's almost as long as the existence of the human species!
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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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    Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.
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    TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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    IBM's Watson computer has 90 processors, 2,880 cores, 11,200 threads, 16 terabytes of RAM, and 4TB worth of data on its hard drive.
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