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TIL 95% of the world’s ATMs are running on Windows XP

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ZpArB TIL that the Washington Generals have only won ~5 games against the Harlem Globetrotters, while having lost more than 16,000 times.
p8MYG TILD Eating spicy foods releases endorphins in your brain similar to a "runner's high".
R7L99 TIL about a journalist/broadcaster from BBC who was assassinated at a bus stop in London by the KGB. A 1.7mm pallet was shot in his leg from the tip of an umbrella. The coating of the pallet melted and allowed the deadly toxin "Ricin" to be absorbed in his bloodstream. He was dead 4 days later.
0wkwj TIL until the 60's, computing power was measured in "Kilo-girls" as the earliest computers where humans. And, more often than not, female
VByP4 TIL Folk and Blues singer Lead Belly produced the first known recording of the phrase "stay woke"