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TIL computer servers are getting so hot and cooling them emits so much carbon (as much as the aviation industry), manufacturers are dunking servers into nonconductive liquid tanks to cool them and help their clients meet power usage effectiveness regulations

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6Elll TIL that voice actors in animation do several unusual things to better their performance in character roles, including putting ground coffee under their tongue, speaking behind a pencil and lots of gesticulating.
l89r TIL that there is a giant water vapor cloud in the middle of the cosmos that is 12 billion light-years away, is 100,000 times larger than the sun, and holds about 140 trillion times more water than all of Earth’s oceans.
R5xv6 TIL that the shape of a Pringle is called "hyperbolic paraboloid", and has its own equation.
wLReW TIL- A massive nuclear disaster occurred in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico when a decommissioned radio therapy machine used for cancer treatment was disassembled by a cleaning crew. They then delivered the cobalt 60 to a junkyard which then used contaminated metal in construction projects around Mexico.
l77La TIL nearly 4 million chickens, 726,000 pigs, and 29,000 cattle die in transport every year – just in the U.S.