Hi Friends!
1. A red panda is an animal native to the Himalayas and southwestern China. The English word for red panda is "Firefox" which is where the browser gets its name form- So the Firefox logo is actually a red panda, not a fox.
2. Dragon Skin Body Armour is a newer invention that can withstand a grenade explosion at point-blank range.
3. The very first Apple logo featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting underneath a tree, with an apple about to hit his head.
4. Google rents out goats from a company called California Grazing to help cut down the amount of weeds and brush at Google HQ!
5. Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh Computer.
6. The average computer user blinks seven times a minute, the normal rate is twenty times per minute.
7. The first alarm clock could only ring at 4am.
8. The television took 13 years to reach a market audience of 50 million.
9. If you was to have you picture taken by the very first camera, you'd need to sit still for 8 hours.
10. A dentist named Alfred Southwick invented the electric chair.
11. Skype is banned from the public in China.
12. Alaska is the only state in America that can be typed on one row of traditional English QWERTY keyboard.
13. 86% of people try to plug their USB devices upside down.
14. The last game for the Sega Mega Drive was released in 2010 and was so popular it sold out before release.
15. Email has been around longer the World-wide Web!
16. In 2004 the (@) symbol used in emails became the first new character to be added to Morse code in several decades! The new character, known as the "Commat" consists of the signals for A (dot-dash) and C (dash-dot-dash-dot) with no space or break in between.
17. On eBay, there is an average of $680 worth of transactions every second.
18. Amazon now sells more eBooks than it does printed books!
19. There are over 35 billion Google searches every month.
20. only 4% of Arab women use the internet.
21. Headphones have magnets in them.
22. Only 25% people can text well without looking at their keyboard.
23. Nokia was founded in 1865 and its primary business was manufacturing paper.
24. There are Braille accessories for smart phones.
25. The most expensive number ever sold was a mobile phone number, 666-6666, which was put up for auction and sold for $2.7 million.
Enjoy!
1. A red panda is an animal native to the Himalayas and southwestern China. The English word for red panda is "Firefox" which is where the browser gets its name form- So the Firefox logo is actually a red panda, not a fox.
2. Dragon Skin Body Armour is a newer invention that can withstand a grenade explosion at point-blank range.
3. The very first Apple logo featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting underneath a tree, with an apple about to hit his head.
4. Google rents out goats from a company called California Grazing to help cut down the amount of weeds and brush at Google HQ!
5. Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh Computer.
6. The average computer user blinks seven times a minute, the normal rate is twenty times per minute.
7. The first alarm clock could only ring at 4am.
8. The television took 13 years to reach a market audience of 50 million.
9. If you was to have you picture taken by the very first camera, you'd need to sit still for 8 hours.
10. A dentist named Alfred Southwick invented the electric chair.
11. Skype is banned from the public in China.
12. Alaska is the only state in America that can be typed on one row of traditional English QWERTY keyboard.
13. 86% of people try to plug their USB devices upside down.
14. The last game for the Sega Mega Drive was released in 2010 and was so popular it sold out before release.
15. Email has been around longer the World-wide Web!
16. In 2004 the (@) symbol used in emails became the first new character to be added to Morse code in several decades! The new character, known as the "Commat" consists of the signals for A (dot-dash) and C (dash-dot-dash-dot) with no space or break in between.
17. On eBay, there is an average of $680 worth of transactions every second.
18. Amazon now sells more eBooks than it does printed books!
19. There are over 35 billion Google searches every month.
20. only 4% of Arab women use the internet.
21. Headphones have magnets in them.
22. Only 25% people can text well without looking at their keyboard.
23. Nokia was founded in 1865 and its primary business was manufacturing paper.
24. There are Braille accessories for smart phones.
25. The most expensive number ever sold was a mobile phone number, 666-6666, which was put up for auction and sold for $2.7 million.
Enjoy!
