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    CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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    The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.
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    There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
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    45% of all online gamers are female, and women over the age of 18 are the industry's fastest growing demographic.
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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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    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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    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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