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Toy Story

Toy Story was orignally called ‘You Are a Toy’
The Pizza Planet delivery truck, which appears in every Pixar film except The Incredibles, also appeared in all three Toy Story films
In their most productive state, Pixar can complete 3.5 minutes of animation a week
Jim Carey was originally casted to voice Buzz Lightyear but Pixar could not afford his fees
Pixar had 300 computers rendering frames 24 hours a day
When an animator is done with a shot (he/she has watched it an average of 3,000 times!), John Lasseter tells them to go pick out a toy as a reward. The number of toys on an animator’s desk demonstrates his prowess.
Buzz Lightyear was first named Lunar Larry
Mattel didn’t want Barbie to be in the movie, thinking it was going to be a flop
The voice of the little green aliens were made with the use of helium gas
The number 95 is seen throughout the movies, referring to the year 1995 when the film was first released
In Andy’s room, some books were names of Pixar’s short films or Pixar staff
Toy Story 3 is the first animation to hit over $1 billion dollars in sales
Andy’s car reads A111 on the front and A113 on the back
The entire animation crew shaved their heads prior to working on Toy Story 3
Andy didn’t have a dad in Toy Story because humans were to expensive to animate

By 2010, electronically stored information was estimated at 1.2 billion terabytes (by IDC)
If these information were stored on CDs, the stack would reach the moon and back.
Our digital world grew by 2/3 in 2010 alone
An estimated 15 per cent of that information would be stored in an internet cloud system

If you shut down your computer for 60 seconds, this is what you will miss online:

The surface of a hard disk drive is so smooth that if it were the size of a football field, it would not have a bump more than 1/300th of an inch high
Air rushes over a spinning hard disk at over 80kmh

Turns out Facebook wasn’t always called Facebook. It originally launched as TheFacebook on thefacebook.com with Zuckerberg claiming he was “Founder, Master and Commander, Enemy of the State”. It didn’t become Facebook.com until 2005 when the fledgling site bought the domain for $200,000 from aboutface.com a web and intranet directory software company
Over 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States with all those people spending a whopping 5703 years (3 billion minutes) on the site each day.
The website is built on PHP-MySQL and is the second most-trafficked PHP site in the world
In April 2006, revenue was rumored to be over $1.5 million per week
The company already rejected a $975 million offer for the site
Facebook is valued at 8 billion according to Peter Thiel
It currently hosts over 1.7 Billion photos
Facebook is the 5th most valuable US Internet company, yet with only $150 million in annual revenue.
With this success, Zuckerberg (founder), Moskowitz and Hughes moved out to Palo Alto for the summer and rented a sublet. A few weeks later, Zuckerberg ran into the former cofounder of Napster, Sean Parker. Parker soon moved in to Zuckerberg’s apartment and they began working together. Parker provided the introduction to their first investor, Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal and managing partner of the Founders Fund. Thiel invested $500,000 into Facebook.

The creator of the Cabbage Patch Dolls was a former Microsoft programmer who left in 1981

Bill Gates’ house was designed using a Macintosh computer
Bill Gate had a SAT score of 1590. The top score for the test is 1600
Bill Gates earns $250 every second; that’s about $20 million a day and $7.8 billion a year
By the age of 17, Gates had sold his first computer program, a time-tabling system for his high school, for $4,200

Tetris has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, since it began in 1982.That provided the creator 800 million in revenues