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01. More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
02. One Google search produces about 0.2g of carbon dioxide.
03. Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries.
04. Google handles more than 1 billion search queries per day, releasing some 200 tons of CO2 per day.
05. The life boat was patented as early as in 1845.
06. The average US household uses 10.6 MWh electricity per year.
07. For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
08. First four countries to have television are - England, the U.S.A., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
09. The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
10. Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'.
11. Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
12. IBM invests more than $6 billion per year on research.
13. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
14. Microsoft was originally named Micro-Soft and finally dropped the dash in 1976.
15. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
16. Microsoft's total revenue in its 1st year was $16,000
17. E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
18. Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
19. The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
20. There are only 14 blimps in the world.
