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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.
Chile is so narrow that no point in the country is more than 110 miles from the ocean.
The Great Rift Valley in East Africa is slowly splitting the continent into two separate landmasses.
The shortest place name in the world is the village of Y in France.
There are more than 30,000 islands in the Pacific Ocean.
The Maldives is the flattest country on Earth, with an average ground level of just 4 feet above sea level.
Bhutan measures its success using Gross National Happiness instead of Gross Domestic Product.
The border between Canada and the United States is the longest international border in the world at 5,525 miles.
The Ring of Fire encircles the Pacific Ocean and is home to about 450 volcanoes.
The Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest place on Earth — some weather stations there have never recorded rainfall.
Japan has more than 6,800 islands.
Lake Titicaca on the border of Peru and Bolivia is the highest navigable lake in the world at 12,507 feet above sea level.
The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway line in the world, stretching 5,772 miles across Russia.
New Zealand was the last major landmass to be settled by humans, around 1250 to 1300 AD.
The tallest waterfall in the world is Angel Falls in Venezuela, plunging 3,212 feet.
Monaco has the highest population density in the world, with over 49,000 people per square mile.
There is a place in Ethiopia called the Danakil Depression where three tectonic plates are pulling apart from each other.
The continent of Australia moves about 2.7 inches northward every year due to tectonic plate movement.
Denmark's Faroe Islands have more sheep than people.
Mount Everest grows about 4 millimeters taller each year due to tectonic activity.
The Nile River flows through 11 countries in northeastern Africa.
Indonesia consists of over 17,000 islands, making it the world's largest archipelago.
The Caspian Sea is actually the world's largest lake, covering about 143,000 square miles.
There are 14 mountains on Earth taller than 8,000 meters, all located in the Himalayas and Karakoram ranges.
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world at only 0.17 square miles.
The giant Pacific octopus can squeeze through any opening larger than its beak, which is the only hard part of its body.
Sea turtles have existed for over 100 million years, surviving the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs.
The ocean's twilight zone, between 660 and 3,300 feet deep, contains more fish by mass than all other ocean zones combined.
Bottlenose dolphins can remember the signature whistles of other dolphins they have not seen in over 20 years.
The Sargasso Sea is the only sea in the world without a land boundary — it is defined by ocean currents.
Whale sharks are the largest fish in the world, growing up to 40 feet long, but they eat only tiny plankton.
The blue dragon sea slug floats upside down on the ocean surface and stores the stinging cells of its prey for its own defense.
Parrotfish create sand by eating coral and excreting it — a single parrotfish can produce over 800 pounds of sand per year.
The ocean contains an estimated 3 million shipwrecks.
Deep-sea gigantism is a phenomenon where creatures in the deep ocean grow much larger than their shallow-water relatives.
The mantis shrimp can punch with the force of a bullet and break aquarium glass.