Fun Technology Facts
- There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide!
- The first banner advertising was used in 1994!
- Email has been around longer than the World Wide Web!
- One of every eight married couples met online in the US last year!
- The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 emails, instant and text messages, and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone!
- "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand!
- On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second!
- In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator!
- The world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936!
- Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million per month!
- An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs!
- A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven!
- The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964, and it was made of wood!
- Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer!
- For every "normal" page, there are five porn pages!
- Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier!
- About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
- A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes at least 20 minutes to stop!
- A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once traveled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
- A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour!
- Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after its use!
- Contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will not ruin its engine!
- Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes!
- Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save!
- Attics were invented in Attica!
- It takes 6 months to build a Rolls Royce and 13 hours to build a Toyota!
- In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors!
- If a car is traveling at 55 miles per hour, it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake!
- Henry Ford produced the Model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry!
- The first four countries to have television were England, America, the U.S.S.R., and Brazil!
- Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer!
- More steel in the US is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies!
- Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks!
- Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off!
- It would take twenty new mid-sized cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a 1960's car did!
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match!
- The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
- The American Automobile Association was founded for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps!
- Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer!
- 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women!
- 250 to 300 million cell phones are being used in the US!
- The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of F!
- The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515!
- In 2009, one of eight newly married couples in the US met online!
- Gamblers mostly don't see any clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
- The French tickler was invented by a Tibetan monk!
- Registered in 1985, symbolics.com is the first ever internet domain registered!
- A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight!
- The Boeing 787 was revealed on 7/8/07!
- In 1998, Sony accidentally sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes!
- To have your picture taken by the very first camera, you would've had to sit still for 8 hours!
- Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973!
- Thomas Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
- The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon!
- The normal static electricity shock that feels like a quick zap is usually between 10,000 and 30,000 volts!
- The life boat was patented in 1945!
- The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year!
- The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes!
- The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 AM!
