Random Computer Facts

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    CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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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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    According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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    Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.
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    The town of Villa Las Estrellas in Antarctica is the most remote town on Earth, and there's only three computers with internet access!
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    In 2012, a national survey found that 51% of people thought stormy weather affected cloud computing.
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    The first webcam was used in 1991 by Cambridge researchers for checking the coffee pot without leaving their desks.
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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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