The Pirate Bay tried buying their own island in hopes of making their own country with no copyright laws.
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The world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.
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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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On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
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45% of all online gamers are female, and women over the age of 18 are the industry's fastest growing demographic.
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MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
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Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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