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2.3 mi (3.7 km) 100 yd (91 m) A waterspout formed offshore of Smith Island and moved onshore, crossing over the northwestern portion of the island as a high-end EF1 tornado. Several outbuildings and a mobile home were destroyed, a bed and breakfast had its roof completely removed, and power poles were snapped.
Minecraft: November 18, 2011: 350 million [57] Minecraft is a sandbox and survival video game originally created by Swedish game designer Markus "Notch" Persson and developed by Mojang. Originally a computer indie game made using Java, it has since been ported to game consoles and mobile devices
This made it the first time that any general-purpose operating system has reached more than one billion end users within a year: by reaching close to 1.16 billion end users in 2014, Android shipped over four times more than iOS and OS X combined, and over three times more than Microsoft Windows.