The QWERTY layout was designed for typewriters, not speed
Common letter pairs were spread apart so the mechanical arms of 1870s typewriters would jam less often. We still use it 150 years later.
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Long before video games, Nintendo was a Kyoto company that made hanafuda playing cards. It has been in business for over 130 years.
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In 1947 operators of the Harvard Mark II found a moth stuck in a relay and taped it into the logbook with the note ‘First actual case of bug being found’.
Read the fact →More people own a mobile phone than a toothbrush
There are well over 7 billion mobile subscriptions worldwide, while toothbrush ownership is estimated at under 5 billion.
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