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    In October 1997, when Internet Explorer 4.0 was released, some Microsoft employees left a giant "From the IE team... We Love You" on Netscape's lawn.
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    In 2012, a national survey found that 51% of people thought stormy weather affected cloud computing.
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    IBM's Watson computer has 90 processors, 2,880 cores, 11,200 threads, 16 terabytes of RAM, and 4TB worth of data on its hard drive.
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    Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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    On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
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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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    80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
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    There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
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