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TIL about The Soft Serve Wars of 2017 where two New York ice-cream vendors competed for turf. Mister Softee hired a detective agency to spy on rival --New York City Ice-cream. NYCIC were notorious for telling Mister Softee employees “there will be problems” if they venture onto their alleged turf.

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OoJ0e TIL that when Alexander the Great’s dearest friend Hephaestion died, Alexander threw him a lavish funeral worth around £1,500,000,000. He also had a 60-metre-high pyre commissioned, with 7 layers of golden objects. Hephaestion was also worshipped as a divine hero. Shrines were erected in his memory.
ZW5p TIL that if batteries had advanced at the same pace as computer processors, a double a cell would contain more energy than a tactical nuke!
MeoRA TIL the human brain is estimated to compute at roughly 1 exaFLOP (10^18 operations) per second. The world's currently largest supercomputer operates at 0.2 exaFLOP/s and consumes 13 Megawatts. Our brain uses 20 watts.
awL4y TIL that Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, annulled Henry VIII's marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, beginning a chain of events that would culminate in the English Reformation.
4kN1J TIL the word, colour and gemstone “Turquoise” comes from the French word for “Turkey”