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    GTA Origin
    GTA Origin
    Grand Theft Auto was originally a racing game called Race’n’Chase. However, a glitch made the police cars go crazy, ramming the player. This glitch was so popular with testers that they rebuilt the game around it, creating GTA.
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    E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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    The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
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    Steve Jobs never wrote a single line of programming code.
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    The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
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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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    Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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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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