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TIL about Creme Puff, a cat that holds the world record for longest recorded lifespan at 38 years and 3 days.

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4XkDX TIL that after a sufficiently long haul of insert/delete operations on a Binary Search Tree, the height of the tree degrades to O(sqrt(n)) and does not remain O(logn) mainly because of the fact that Hibbard Deletions lead to an asymmetric tree structure.
Oo8Ee TIL The US Department of Defense created a supercomputer using 1,760 PS3 consoles. Compared to other supercompuing systems at the time, it cost 90-95% less to build and required only one tenth of the power to operate
Em0V TIL That Seth MacFarlane, John Lithgow, Richard Gere, Sarah Palin, Howard Dean, Elizabeth Shue, and Bing Crosby are all descendants of the same Mayflower passenger, William Brewster.
WkjD9 TIL Death Valley (California) is above one of the largest aquifers in the world
M7O58 TIL the United States is the county with the most volcanoes.