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    CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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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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    On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
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    Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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    The Pirate Bay tried buying their own island in hopes of making their own country with no copyright laws.
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    While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
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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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    "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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