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    In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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    Windows 'Con' Folder
    Windows 'Con' Folder
    It’s not possible to create a folder named “con” on a Windows computer.
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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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    On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
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    On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
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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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    The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
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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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