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    In 1989, a British company made a laptop with a graphical user interface, a 60 hour battery life, SSD storage, and a touchpad.
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    There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
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    In 1956, the IBM 350 hard disk drive had 3.75 MB of storage, weighed over 2000 lbs, had to be moved around with forklifts, and was delivered via large cargo airplanes.
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    In 2012, a national survey found that 51% of people thought stormy weather affected cloud computing.
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    In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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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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    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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    CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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