According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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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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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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Anthony Greco, aged 18, became the first person arrested for spim (unsolicited instant messages) on February 21,2005.
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Steve Jobs never wrote a single line of programming code.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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A young programmer offered a homeless man the choice between $100 cash or coding lessons. Leo Grand chose the lessons, and now his first mobile app is available to download for $.99.
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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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