Random Internet Facts

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    The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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    Strange Illuminati Web Address Takes You to NSA
    Typing 'illuminati' backwards into the address bar, followed by '.com', will take you to U.S. government's National Security Agency website.
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    In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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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 Gmail logo was designed the night before it was launched.
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    Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
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    A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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    CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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