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TIL it takes two full weeks to make a CPU.

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ddyr TIL Aaron Greenspan, a tech wizard who shared the same dorm with Mark Zuckerberg, built a Facebook-y site long before Facebook was built, but was (allegedly) given no credit when he claims (with documented proof) that Zuckerberg took inspiration from and copied off his product to build Facebook.
y9N8 TIL that beyond the whole ‘left brain / right brain’ thing and 'the subconscious,’ humans appear to literally have TWO 'competing’ brains in one – one that can speak and one that can’t.
v15NB TIL in 1987 a virus called Stoned was spread widely across Australia and New Zealand. The virus would display "Your computer is now stoned. Legalise Marijuana" in infected boot sectors of infected floppy disks and master boot records of infected hard disks.
XEKZk TIL That thunderstorms can cause headaches due to changes in barometric pressure.
OK4R TIL: White, green, oolong, and black teas come from the leaves of the same tea plant species.