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Smoking will void your Apple warranty.
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HYPE REMINDER!
Technology is now influencing baby names.
There is special Braille technology and accessories for blind people to use cell phones. It uses special pins that go up and down so the user can touch and read the info.
It takes 18 people 900 hours to put out the red carpet for the Oscars.
More species have been named after Barack Obama than any other U.S. president.
Homer is the only character in The Simpsons to have dialogue in every episode.
A Canadian man who was freed in 2017 after being held in Afghanistan by Taliban-tied kidnappers for 5 years said he thought his captors were joking when they told him Donald Trump was president.
There are more than 1,000 species of banana. We eat only one of them.
Google has a database of 25 million books that nobody is allowed to read. Unverified!
You don't gain and lose fat as your weight fluctuates. Your fat cells just get bigger or smaller.
In the U.S., peanut butter must contain 90% peanuts, otherwise it must be called "peanut spread."
The Brazilian wax was invented in New York.
Those Russians!!
HYPE REMINDER!
To a normal human, Google’s first-ever tweet on Twitter was nonsense!It reads, “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010”. Translated from binary to English, this tweet says, “I’m feeling lucky.”
The first cell phone call was in New York City.
The first commercial text message was sent in 1992.
Phubbing is a new word meaning ‘ignoring your friends in favour of your mobile phone'.
Over 6,000 new computer viruses are created and released every month.
There are more likes than photos on Facebook.
In the 90s, Cuba was unable to afford pesticides, so the government embraced organic agriculture. Organic honey is now Cuba's fourth biggest agricultural export, as pesticide use has been linked to declining bee populations elsewhere.
When Nintendo had a fall in revenue from the less successful Wii U, its CEO cut his pay in half for 5 months.
The original design for an iPhone was in the shape of a literal apple. It was initially designed as a flip phone with a push keypad. When closed, it looked like the Apple logo.
The world's largest pizza was about 2.5 times as big as a Basketball court.
A library book borrowed by George Washington in 1789 wasn't returned until 2010.
NASA’s internet speed is 91 GB per second.
The oak is the national tree of Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia and the UK.
More people have cell phones than toilets.
The White House has 147 windows.