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Hello dear reader, I am Lua Davidson.
1. The Firefox logo isn't a fox
It's actually a red panda.
Itās a common misbelief that the Firefox logo is a fox (I meanā¦ it is in the name), but it is actually a red panda!
2. Nintendo made playing cards
long before they made video games.
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company. They didnāt make their first video game until 1978.
3. As of 2017, 2.1 millions people still use dial up.
A study done in 2017 found that 2.1 million people still use a dial up service. These customers are situated mainly in rural America where internet is unreliable and expensive.
4. There are approx. 3.5 billion Google Searches per day.
7.2 percent of this traffic comes from people searching the term āGoogleā.
You can view daily Google Search trends at https://trends.google.com/trends/.
5. Google's First Tweet was in binary.
Googleās first tweet was in 2009, and it was gibberish to most. Translated from binary to English, it reads, āIām feeling luckyā.
6. Motorola produced the first handheld mobile phone
and their first phone call was to their rival.
On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs (AT&T), his rival.
7. Apple were originally designing an apple shaped flip phone
before the first iPhone.
Before the original design for an iPhone, Apple patented a phone design in the shape of an actual apple. It was a flip phone that, when closed, would look like the Apple logo.
8. Nokia used to sell toilet paper.
Before Nokia sold mobile phones, they manufactured a range of other items, such as; toilet paper, tires, computers, and other electronics.
9. More people have mobile phones than toilets.
Out of the 7.7 billion people in the world, more than 6 billion people have access to a mobile phone. Compared to only 4.5 billion people who have access to a working toilet.
10. Android holds 87% of the OS market share.
In 2019, The Android smartphone operating system accounts for 87% of the global market share, compared to Apple iOS which holds 13%.
11. Over 90% if the world's currency is digital.
Between credit cards, debit cards, online purchases, and cryptocurrency, only 8% of global currency is physical money.
12. Every iPhone advertisement has the time set to 9:41.
Every advertisement for an Apple iPhone, the time will be set as 9:41. This is the time that Steve Jobs announced the very first iPhone in 2007.
13. The most-viewed video on YouTube is 'Despacito'.
āDespacitoā by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee is the most-viewed video on YouTube, with over 6.9 billion views as of September 2020.
14. The QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow you down.
When typewriters were introduced, typing too quickly would jam the keys. To prevent this from happening, QWERTY was introduced which placed common alphabets at a distance from each other and slowed typists down.