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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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    Windows 'Con' Folder
    Windows 'Con' Folder
    It’s not possible to create a folder named “con” on a Windows computer.
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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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    Terms & Conditions
    Terms & Conditions
    It would take 76 work days (8 hours a day) for the average person to read the Terms and Conditions they agree to in a year.
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    In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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    Steve Jobs never wrote a single line of programming code.
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    The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
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    MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
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