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TIL the world’s fastest supercomputer (TH-2) requires 24 million Watts of power, but still needs to be about 100,000 times faster to match our 20 Watt brain.

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mn5v TIL: There are cycles of violence within the United States every 50 years (give or take 5), we’re due for one in the next 6 years
16rvr TIL in the early 20th century, endurance cyclists would often take nitroglycerin and strychnine (a pesticide) as performance-enhancers, thus causing hallucinations. Cyclist Major Taylor once refused to continue a race, saying that "there is a man chasing me around the ring with a knife in his hand"
plXe TIL Kim Kardashian was paid to post a selfie on Instagram and Twitter advertising a pharmaceutical product. Sent to 42 million followers on Instagram and 32 million on Twitter, this illegal advertisement did not contain any risk information or language specifying that it was a paid endorsement.
WkarB TIL that the 12-story Soviet embassy in Indonesia was torn down in December 1990 (a year before its dissolution) due to national security concern over a mall (Plaza Indonesia) built near the building. Always thought that the current Russian embassy was also the one used by the Soviet Union.
KoRR TIL: There was one survivor at the Battle of Little Bighorn. A horse named “Comanche” who was treated as a war veteran and never ridden again out of respect.