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Today I learned that there was a plague which caused people to dance in the middle ages... crazy history out there!

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mLLE TIL that “biweekly” means BOTH “twice a week” and “every two weeks”
5YWWk TIL the ‘infinity symbol’ is called a Lemniscate.
WkmO8 TIL that Edamame beans are just unripe soy beans
b9Mmj TIL that an annual Tennis award, the ATP Fan's Favourite has only ever had three different winners in its 20 years of existence. Gustavo Kuerten (2000), Marat Safin (2001,2002) and Roger Federer (2003,'04,'05,'06,'07,'08,'09,'10,'11,'12,'13,'14,'15,'16,'17,'18,'19)
MeoRA TIL the human brain is estimated to compute at roughly 1 exaFLOP (10^18 operations) per second. The world's currently largest supercomputer operates at 0.2 exaFLOP/s and consumes 13 Megawatts. Our brain uses 20 watts.