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    'Firefox'
    'Firefox'
    The Firefox mascot isn't actually a fox, but a red panda.
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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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    Windows 'Con' Folder
    Windows 'Con' Folder
    It’s not possible to create a folder named “con” on a Windows computer.
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    On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
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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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    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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    For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
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