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    Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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    On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
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    'Firefox'
    'Firefox'
    The Firefox mascot isn't actually a fox, but a red panda.
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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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    E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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    The longest-running legal battle for a domain name is believed to be the fight for PETA.org. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued People Eating Tasty Animals to obtain the name – the case spanned from 1995 to 2001.
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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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    The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
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