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The original Xbox contained edited sound bites from actual transmissions from the Apollo missions.
The actor who played young Forrest Gump ended up enlisting in the U.S. Army and going into combat, just like his character.
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86% of people try to plug in their USB devices upside down.
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"Bird" was originally spelled "brid."
The average English-speaker has about 50,000 words in their mind and finds the right one in 600 milliseconds.
In 1986, London's bakers apologised for the Great Fire of London, 320 years after it happened.
Hidden inside Grand Central Station, in New York, is the Vanderbilt Tennis Club.
Swaziland has banned witches from flying above an altitude of 150 meters in 2013.
The state of New Mexico has an official state question: ‘Red or green?'
Steve Jobs used sleight of hand at the first iPhone presentation.
The first alarm clock could only ring at one time.
Computer Security Day is celebrated on November 30th.
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To understand a pun, your brain's right and left hemispheres have to work together, due to the unique structure of the joke.
John Travolta owns a Boeing 707 and his house has an airport.
The U.S. tried to purchase Greenland from Denmark for US$100 million in 1946.
If you spent one day on each of the islands in the Phillippines, it would take you almost 21 years to visit them all.
In 2010, the United States Air Force used 1,760 PlayStation 3 consoles to build a supercomputer for the Department of Defense.
They used PS3s because it was more cost-efficient and “green.
It was to Western Union that Alexander Graham Bell and his co-inventors first took their patent for the telephone. But its chairman said it was "nothing but a toy".
Norway's Bouvet Island was discovered in 1739, then lost again for another 69 years.
The world's largest Spanish-speaking country is Mexico, followed by the U.S.
The first online gaming was before the year 2000.
The first product scanned was a packet of chewing gum in 1974.
When agreeing to the Terms & Conditions for iTunes, you are agreeing not to use it to make nuclear weapons.
Terry Davis, a schizophrenic programmer, spent 10 years of his life programming an operating system to "talk to God."
From 1889-1956, Nintendo was a playing card company.
In 2015, two con men sold a fake Goya painting for €1.5 million, only to find out that all the money was counterfeit.
Looney Tunes was created to promote Warner Brother's music catalog in the 1930s. That's why it's "Tunes" and not "Toons."
70% of millionaires surveyed do not consider themselves "wealthy."