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TIL in 35th fastest supercomputer in the world in 2010 was The Condor Cluster built by the US Air Force from over 1700 PS3s linked together running Linux

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x69Wg TIL that in 2018, a family walking along the beach in Australia discovered the oldest message in a bottle, which had been thrown into the sea back in 1886.
XE0vj TIL of the Cocaine Bear who was found dead in the woods after eating 76 pounds ($15 million worth) of cocaine
MeM5b TIL since the onset of Colony Collapse Disorder in 2006, the number of US honeybee hives is at a 20-year high and US honey production is at a 10-year high
E1pZX TIL when Pope John Paul II delivered a speech to the European Parliament, Ian Paisley shouted "I denounce you as the antichrist!" The former crown prince of Austria-Hungary, 77-year-old Otto von Habsburg, punched him in the face and pushed him out of the chamber.
W7X0X TIL in 1986 the city of Cleveland, OH attempted to break a world record releasing the most helium balloons at one time and ended up killing 2 men.