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January 25, 2017

* FACTS 64 (TECHNOLOGY)

Hi Friends!

1. Facebook has a blue color scheme because the creator, Mark Zuckerberg cannot see the colours red & green.

2. Around 20% of all YouTube are music related.

3. If you find a security bug in Facebook's code, they are willing to pay from &500 for you to tell them about it!

4. It is estimated that one in every eight couples in the US who went on to marry each other met online.

5. Websites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are banned in China.

6. Google+ was developed under the code name "Emerald Sea".

7. Remember MySpace? Well it has over 200 million registered users.

8. Facebook took 2 years to reach a market audience of 50 million.

9. 60% of LinkedIn members have clicked one of their adverts.

10. In 2012, at least 17 newborn girls were named Siri.

11. There are more than 682 million iPhone across the globe.

12. Created in 1956, the first ever VCR was the size of a piano.

13. Tech companies often test new products in New Zealand. The reason is The country is diverse, its residents speak English, and if a product is a flop, new doesn't spread as fast because it is relatively isolated.

14. There is a factory in Japan which can run unsupervised for 30 days at a time-- it's almost entirely manned by robots.

15. There used to be fake Apple store in China. There were so fake, in fact that even the staff were convinced they were working for Apple.

16. Time Magazine named the computer the "Man of the Year" in 1982.

17.  In 2012, Apple sold 340,000 iPhones every single day.

18. One of the first Computer science Ph.D's was earned by a nun.

19. In the tech world, November 30th is known as "Computer Security Day."

20. Inside Original Macintosh case you will find 47 signatures for each member of Apple's Macintosh division as of 1982.

21. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Englebart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

22. On average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.

23. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.

24. HP, Google, Microsoft and Apple have one thing in common apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in Garages.

25. There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.

Enjoy!