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TIL that Ikea acquired TaskRabbit in 2017

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0wl5v Today I learned the Golden Temple in Amritsar,India Gives 100,000 meals everyday to everyone regardless of thier Faith,Race,Gender
5Y5nD TIL Vin Diesel wrote and directed a short film about auditioning for different roles in movies that chides the film industry for perpetuating racial and ethnic stereotypes. This propelled him into his Hollywood career.
Y7YaZ TIL that there is a unit of time called the Planck. It is 1.35 x 10^-43 seconds in length. There are more of them in one second than in all the seconds in time since the Big Bang.
Z8EVG TIL defensive tackle Derrick Nnadi vowed to pay the average adoption fee of $150 for every dog at a Missouri shelter if the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl. They won, and Nnadi paid the fees. A few days later, all 109 shelter dogs had been adopted.
VMODZ TIL there are now TPU microprocessors. CPUs are ones and zeroes, GPUs are threes for doing triangles to make polygons and TPUs are fours for processing matrices for AI deep learning ten times faster.