
- Nokia was founded in 1865 and its primary business was
manufacturing paper.
- 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!
- Around 20% of all YouTube videos are music-related.
- Spending 1 hour a day on Social Media reduces the probability of a child being completely happy with their life by 14%.
- All the letter combinations from aaa.com to zzz.com have already
been registered.
- On eBay, there is an average of $680 worth of transactions every
second.
- Amazon now sells more eBooks than it does printed books!
- There are over 35 billion Google searches every month. (Also read: 20 Interesting and Amazing Facts about Google)
- In 1999, PayPal was voted as one of the top ten worst business ideas.
- The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
- The average age of gamers in the United States is 35.
- When signing up to iTunes, if you accept their Terms &
Conditions, you agree to not use it to make nuclear weapons.
- Bill Gates's house was designed using a Macintosh Computer.
- The first-ever VCR (Video Camera Recorder), which was made in
1956, was the size of a piano!
- In general, people tend to read as much as 10% slower from a
screen than from paper.
- Although GPS is free for the world to use, it costs $2 million per
day to operate. The money comes from American tax revenue.
16 Weird Facts about Technology that might Surprise You
Reviewed by
Saurabh Mangar
on
March 07, 2020
Rating:
5
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