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Here's some trivia Richest Monarch The richest monarch in the world as of April 2001, is King Fahd Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia. His estimated personal wealth amounts to around $30 billion. In power since 1982, the King's wealth primarily stems from oil, property and investments. Richest Woman The world’s richest woman is Alice Walton, daughter of Sam Walton (d. 1992), founder of Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer. She has an estimated net worth of $16.5 billion (£9.8 billion) according to the Forbes 2003 Rich List. Most Syndicated Columnist Ann Landers (née Esther Pauline Friedman, born July 4, 1918) appears in over 1,200 newspapers, with an estimated readership of 90 million. She also writes columns for internet websites. Her only serious rival is Abigail Van Buren, known as Dear Abby (née Pauline Esther Friedman, now Mrs Pauline Phillips), her identical twin sister, based in Beverly Hills, California, USA. Internet2 Speed Record On 14 April 2004 a team of engineers from Sprint Corporation in San Jose, California, USA, and the Swedish National Research and Education Network successfully transmitted 838.86 gigabytes of data over a distance of 16,343 km (10,155 miles) in 1,588 seconds. The resulting record value of 69,073 terabit metres-per-second was achieved over public networks using IPv4. The start and end points of the transmission were San Jose, California, USA, and the University of Luleå , Luleå , Sweden. Largest Internet Search Engine Google, with around 2.215 billion pages, has the largest continually-refreshed index of webpages of all the world's search engines. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Their first office was a garage in Menlo Park, California, USA, which opened in September 1998 with a staff of four people. Largest Single E-commerce Transaction Business tycoon Mark Cuban spent $40 million on his own luxury Gulfstream V jet.He bought it online. The jet was the second sold by the Gulfstream company over their website. Cuban's purchase is the largest ever single internet transaction. Best-Selling Computer Soccer Game The FIFA series of games, developed by EA Sports, has sold more than 16 million units worldwide. Launched in PC format on November 27, 1998, the game features a full pop soundtrack including tracks by such recording artists as Fatboy Slim. EA Sports is based in Redwood City, California. Most Widespread Computer Virus Unlike previous headline-grabbing bugs, the "I Love You" virus was able to forward itself to every entry in a computer's address book. It was able to write itself over existing files, and to send valuable information - such as passwords - to its home site in the Philippines. Six months after it hit, more than 50 variants of the virus were still circling the globe. I always find such trivia interesting to read. Hope u ppl did too.

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