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Til There is a pair of brothers who are both general managers, one in the NFL and the other in the NHL.

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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.
16nrX TIL of PlayCable, the first online gaming service developed for intellivision in 1980. It allowed you to download games to an peripheral device using your Cable TV subscription
4Xo7g TIL 'The Father of Modern Gynecology', James Marion Sims, perfected his surgical techniques by operating without anesthesia on enslaved black women.
69Yxm TIL the Georgian word for "Father" is pronounced similar to the English "Mama"
Oo9J4 TIL viruses are not alive because they do not have cells, they cannot turn food into energy, and without a host they are just inert packets of chemicals. Then I learned they are not exactly dead, either: They have genes, they reproduce, and they evolve through natural selection.