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    CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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    E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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    80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
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    As of 2011, gamers have collectively spent over 6 million years playing World of Warcraft. That's almost as long as the existence of the human species!
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    "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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    The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
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    Dvorak Keyboard
    Dvorak Keyboard
    The Dvorak keyboard is estimated to be 12 to 20 times more efficient than the 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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