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TIL Quake III Arena, needing to calculate x^(-½) quickly, used a piece of code so strange, the developers commented the code with “evil floating point bit level hacking” and “what the fuck?”

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X0vOj TIL The most common cause of violent death in almost all countries is road traffic crashes
QkRd TIL a prison inmate tried to sue himself for allowing himself to get drunk and ruin his life. He demanded 5 million from himself and reasoned that the state should pay since he didn’t get a salary behind bars.
WQZo TIL: The boss, not the workload, causes workplace depression: It is not a big workload that causes depression at work. An unfair boss and an unfair work environment are what really bring employees down (x-post from /r/science)
loBoK TIL John Cena holds the celebrity record for most wishes granted for the Make-A-Wish foundation with over 500 wishes
JYBOV Computer scientist, mathematician, and all-around supergenius Alan Turing, who played a pivotal role in breaking secret German codes during WWII and developing the conceptual framework for the modern general purpose computer, was also a cracking good runner.