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  1. Have you heard of Caine's Arcade? This 9-year-old has already raised enough money to pay for his college education! ow.ly/atFC5
  2. A deeper look into Windows 8 Pro. zdnet.com/blog/bott/what…
  3. The majority of 4- to 7-year olds have used an iPhone?!? The next generation will reshape mobile tech as we know it. ow.ly/atFBZ
  4. What did you do to celebrate Earth Day? Check out these amazing images from around the world. ow.ly/atFBW
  5. The first novel ever to be written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.
  6. LEGO comes from the Danish words "leg" and "godt", and it was later realized that in Latin, LEGO means "I put together".
  7. QR codes were first used in 1994, created by a Toyota Subsidiary to track vehicles throughout manufacturing.
  8. 1980s computers were not considered 100% IBM-compatible unless they could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator!
  9. Did you know that 90% of modern technology was created within the last 150 years?
  10. One billionth of a second is a nanosecond, which is a common measurement of read/write access time to RAM!
  11. Americans today spend about 27 hours each month surfing the Web. A huge increase from 1996, when they spent less than 30 minutes surfing.
  12. Every minute, 20 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube from all over the world.
  13. More than 1,000 resumes come into Google, Inc. every day!
  14. There are more than 10 billion photos on Facebook!
  15. Did you know that Google uses more electricity than many countries do in an entire year?!
  16. In 2012, there will be 17 billion devices connected to the Internet!
  17. Did you know that 18 countries around the world still have no Internet connection?
  18. Spam makes up 81% of the 247 email messages sent each day.
  19. People all over the world search for results on Google every day, including computer users in Antarctica!
  20. Remember the days when connecting to the Internet meant tying up your phone line, paying by the hour and waiting 30 seconds for a page load?