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The Olympic gold medal is actually 92.5% silver with a gold plating of at least 6 grams.
Golf balls have between 300 and 500 dimples, which help reduce drag and increase distance.
The world's largest jigsaw puzzle contained 551,232 pieces.
The highest skydive was from 135,890 feet by Alan Eustace in 2014, breaking Felix Baumgartner's earlier record.
The world record for the most dominoes toppled in a chain reaction is over 5 million.
The fastest time to solve a Rubik's Cube is 3.13 seconds, set by Max Park in 2023.
The typewriter was partly invented to help a blind woman write, as the first practical model was developed to aid the visually impaired.
The first commercial television broadcast in the United States was in 1941.
Approximately 4 million blog posts are published every day worldwide.
The first emoticon used in a digital message was :-) typed by Scott Fahlman in 1982.
The first video uploaded to YouTube was titled 'Me at the zoo' and was posted by co-founder Jawed Karim.
The Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner has sold over 40 million units since its launch in 2002.
There are approximately 1.13 billion websites on the internet, but less than 200 million are active.
The first commercial GPS device for consumers was released in 1989 and cost $3,000.
The PlayStation was originally developed as a CD-ROM add-on for the Super Nintendo before Sony made it a standalone console.
The first known use of the @ symbol in email was by Ray Tomlinson in 1971 to separate usernames from computer names.
Over 500 million tweets are sent per day.
The first GIF ever created was an image of a rotating globe, made in 1987 by Steve Wilhite at CompuServe.
The original name for Windows was Interface Manager before it was changed prior to launch.
The average person will spend about 7 years of their life looking at a phone screen.
There are more transistors in a modern smartphone processor than there are stars in the Milky Way.
The first handheld mobile phone call was made by Martin Cooper of Motorola on April 3, 1973.
The total amount of data created, captured, and consumed globally in 2020 was estimated at 64 zettabytes.
The first webcam was created at the University of Cambridge to monitor a coffee pot so researchers could avoid walking to an empty pot.
A solar sail spacecraft uses radiation pressure from sunlight to propel itself without any fuel.
The farthest human-made object from Earth, Voyager 1, carries a gold-plated copper disk with greetings in 55 languages.
The average lifespan of a smartphone is about 2.7 years before it is replaced.
Virtual assistants like Siri use natural language processing and machine learning to understand and respond to voice commands.
The world generates about 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day.
Netflix was originally a DVD rental-by-mail service launched in 1997.
There are more than 2 billion gamers worldwide.
The first 1-gigabyte hard drive was released in 1980, weighed 550 pounds, and cost $40,000.
Bluetooth technology is named after Harald Bluetooth, a 10th-century Danish king who united warring factions.
The internet weighs about the same as a strawberry — roughly 50 grams — based on the electrons that carry all its data.
Moore's Law predicted that the number of transistors on a microchip would double approximately every two years, and it has held roughly true for decades.
The world's first website, created at CERN, was about the World Wide Web project itself.
Google processes over 8.5 billion searches per day.
The first video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, was released in 1972.
There are approximately 4.66 billion active internet users worldwide.
The original iPod could hold about 1,000 songs and had a 5-gigabyte hard drive.
The first ever email spam was sent in 1978 to 393 people on ARPANET, advertising a new computer model.
Amazon started as an online bookstore in Jeff Bezos's garage in 1994.
The average person checks their phone about 96 times per day.
The term 'bug' in computing originated when a moth was found stuck in a relay of the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947.
The first commercial cell phone, the Motorola DynaTAC, cost $3,995 when it launched in 1983.
Over 6 million text messages are sent every minute worldwide.
The first domain name ever registered was symbolics.com on March 15, 1985.
About 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every single minute.
The first digital camera was built by Kodak engineer Steven Sasson in 1975 and weighed 8 pounds.
Canned food was invented in 1810, but the can opener was not invented until 1858.