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TIL that out of the TOP500 super computers, none of them run on Windows. 498 of them use the Linux kernel. The remaining 2 use AIX, a variant of Unix.

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EgYgo TIL that Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry has bred nearly 8,000 chicks annually (around 20 a day) as part of a Chicken Hatchery exhibit since 1956. The chicks are kept on exhibit for Museum Visitors to view for a week. After that, most are fed to animals at the Lincoln Park Zoo.
oBymE TIL the Bikini swimsuit was introduced by Louis Réard four days after the first nuclear device was detonated over the Bikini Atoll. Réard hoped that his swimsuit's revealing style would create an "explosive commercial and cultural reaction" similar to the social reaction the nuclear explosion.
kObR4 TIL about lovers at Valdaro, two skeletons who have been locked in an eternal embrace for the last 6,000 years.
GJyN TIL that when people dont like the way they look in a picture taken by someone else, it’s mostly because our “preffered” self is the one we see in a mirror, therefore a reversed image of what we look like in pictures. (Mere-Exposure Effect)
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