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TIL NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su are not only leaders of major tech companies but also cousins.

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BZrW TIL that transparent aluminum, which has existed since 1981, can stop a .50 caliber bullet.
WkJwX TIL after Algeria won independence, it committed systematic genocide against Muslims supporting the French. 30,000 to 150,000 were murdered by lynch mobs. The French army disobeyed orders not to intervene and rescued some 90,000 Muslims to France. Algeria refuses to let them return to this day.
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