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    Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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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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    In 1989, a British company made a laptop with a graphical user interface, a 60 hour battery life, SSD storage, and a touchpad.
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    One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
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    BackRub
    BackRub
    Google was originally called "BackRub".
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    A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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    Cloud Computing
    Cloud Computing
    In 2012, a national survey found that 51% of people thought stormy weather affected cloud computing.
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    The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005.
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