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You didn't answer. Why are the first 6 keys QWERTY instead of any other combination?

Cause typewriter salesman would go door to door selling them. And as examples they would spell out the name of the product, TYPEWRITER which could be spelled using just the top row.

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Did some french dude make it? :P

Actually no. Ours starts with AZERTY.

Cause typewriter salesman would go door to door selling them. And as examples they would spell out the name of the product, TYPEWRITER which could be spelled using just the top row.

Well it does go back to the typewriting days when the stick would go go hit the page with the letter on it. They mapped out the keys so that the probability of having 2 sticks criss-cross would be the lowest.

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Actually no. Ours starts with AZERTY.

Well it does go back to the typewriting days when the stick would go go hit the page with the letter on it. They mapped out the keys so that the probability of having 2 sticks criss-cross would be the lowest.

That's true, didn't know that, but I wasn't wrong either.

from wiki

Sholes struggled for the next six years to perfect his invention, making many trial-and-error rearrangements of the original machine's alphabetical key arrangement in an effort to reduce the frequency of typebar clashes. Eventually he arrived at a four-row, upper case keyboard approaching the modern QWERTY standard. In 1873 Sholes' backer, James Densmore, succeeded in selling manufacturing rights for the Sholes-Glidden "Type Writer" with E. Remington and Sons and within the following few months the keyboard layout was finalised by Remington's mechanics. Their adjustments included placing the "R" key in the place previously allotted to the period mark, thus enabling salesmen to impress customers by pecking out the brand name "TYPE WRITER" from one keyboard row. Vestiges of the original alphabetical layout remained in the "home row" sequence FGHJKL.[4]
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Actually no. Ours starts with AZERTY.

Well it does go back to the typewriting days when the stick would go go hit the page with the letter on it. They mapped out the keys so that the probability of having 2 sticks criss-cross would be the lowest.

hmm, I read that it was done to purposely slow typists down cause the old machines couldn't keep up with fast typers..

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Interesting fact, February 11th, 2009:

The first city to reach the population of 1 million people was Rome. Ancient Rome, to be exact. The city reached that population in the year 5 B.C. No other city would reach that milestone until 1800, when London joined the "club."

Tune in again tomorrow for some more awesome trivia.

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Interesting fact, February 11th, 2009:

The first city to reach the population of 1 million people was Rome. Ancient Rome, to be exact. The city reached that population in the year 5 B.C. No other city would reach that milestone until 1800, when London joined the "club."

Tune in again tomorrow for some more awesome trivia.

Ancient Rome?

Was that what the called it then?

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Ancient Rome?

Was that what the called it then?

As opposed to Modern Rome, which is much different. Besides, pointing out that it was ancient is to stress that they had such a high population waaaaay before any other city.

If I had made it a question, what would you have guessed?

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Interesting fact, February 13th, 2009:

A random sampling of dollar bills from major U.S. cities found that more than 70 percent tested positive for the virus that causes genital warts.

Tune in again later for some more awesome trivia.

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Interesting fact, February 13th, 2009:

A random sampling of dollar bills from major U.S. cities found that more than 70 percent tested positive for the virus that causes genital warts.

Tune in again later for some more awesome trivia.

I guess I should start using condoms made of 5s.

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Interesting fact, February 13th, 2009:

A random sampling of dollar bills from major U.S. cities found that more than 70 percent tested positive for the virus that causes genital warts.

Tune in again later for some more awesome trivia.

Every euro note tested in Ireland has tested positive for cocaine. Make of that what you will.

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