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    TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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    Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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    By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
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    The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
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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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    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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