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    28% of IT Professionals hide their career from family or friends out of fear of being asked to provide free tech support.
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    In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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    One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
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    The famous Windows start-up sound was composed using a Mac.
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    The four ghosts in Pac-Man are programmed to act differently: red chases you, pink just tries to position itself in a set way, blue tries to ambush you and orange is random.
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    CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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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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    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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