TEN Things You Probably Didn't Know About The Internet

You are probably using the Internet on a day to day basis, at work as well as at home.
With this in mind – how much do you know about the Internet?
Regardless if you know much or nothing at all are we quite sure that you won't know the following facts.

Here are TEN fun and totally useless facts that you probably did not know about the Internet:

1. The phrase World Wide Web was coined by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990.

2. The first ever bought domain name was symbolics.com – not much to look at today, we might add.

3. The most expensive domain name ever is sex.com that got sold for about $11 million – the type in traffic alone apparently makes it worth its price.

4. In 2008 were there 215 million households with online access in the U.S.
Which corresponds to 71.4% of the U.S population.

5. Iceland is the country with the most Internet users per capita: 86% of the population.

6. There are still around 18 countries in the world that do not have any Internet connection.

7. Google has about 3,000 employees all over the world and they go under the name "Googlers".
The Google headquarters is called the Googleplex.
Brain-washing, anyone?

8. The Martini was the most popular cocktail to search for on Google in 2008.

9. Each month the average Internet surfer visits 59 domains, views 1,050 web pages and spends 25 hours doing all of this.

10. "Google" has been searched on Google.com 2.7 billion times.

Cool Facts about Human Body

-Scientists say the higher your I.Q. The more you dream.




-The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.




-You use 200 muscles to take one step.




-The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.




-Your big toes have two bones each while the rest have three.




-A pair of human feet contains 250,000 sweat glands.




-A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.





-The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades.




-The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.




-It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.




-The average human dream lasts 2-3 seconds.




-Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.




-At the moment of conception, you spent about half an hour as a single cell.




-There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.




-Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil.




-The enamel in your teeth is the hardest substance in your body.




-Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born.




-When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, and they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.




-Your thumb is the same length of your nose.




At this very moment I know well you are putting this last fact to the test...