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    Random Computer Facts

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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 eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
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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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    There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
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    A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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    Random Darknet Shopper
    Random Darknet Shopper
    There's a bot called the 'Random Darknet Shopper' that is given $100 in bitcoins every week to purchase random items on the darkweb. It ended up buying 10 ecstasy pills and the creator was subsequently arrested.
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    HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common – apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
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    The first webcam was used in 1991 by Cambridge researchers for checking the coffee pot without leaving their desks.
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