Amazing Facts

1. A red panda is an animal native to the Himalayas and southwestern China. The English word for red panda is ‘Firefox’ which is where the browser gets its name from – so the Firefox logo is actually a red panda, not a fox!
2. The very first Apple logo featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting underneath a tree, with an apple about to hit his head.
3. The founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, was a college drop out.
4. Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh Computer.
5. The word robot comes from the Czech “robota“. This translates into forced labour, or work.
6. The average computer user blinks seven times a minute, the normal rate is twenty times per minute.
7. The first ever VCR, which was made in 1956, was the size of a piano!
8. The first alarm clock could only ring at 4am.
9. On 1st April 2005, NASA pulled a prank telling the world that they had found water on Mars.
10. The radio took 38 years to reach a market audience of 50 million.
11. The television took 13 years to reach a market audience of 50 million.
12. The iPod took 3 years to reach a market audience of 50 million.
13. If you was to have your picture taken by the very first camera, you’d need to sit still for 8 hours.
14. A dentist named Alfred Southwick invented the electric chair.
15. Skype is banned from the public in China.