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TIL the CERN ATLAS experiment generates 23 petabyte (in excess of 23 million Gigabytes) of raw data per second.

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4a55 TIL there are Target stores in Australia with the exact same logo, name, and branding that have no affiliation with the actual Minneapolis-based retailer all because Target didn’t trademark their name in Australia.
6OVW TIL Eminem’s mom sued him for $10 million for defamation over lyrics in the song “My Name Is”. The case was settled out of court for $25,000, with her lawyers taking nearly $24,000 of that.
LkRg9 TIL Saint Drogo is the patron saint of unattractive people, baristas, the mentally ill, and hernias.
ZGPa TIL that today is Kamehameha Day, to celebrate the first king of Hawaii
woAm8 TIL that in 1941 a little girl named Anna Sklepovich met President Franklin D. Roosevelt because of prank on her birthday.