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TIL Neil Young said “Piracy is the new radio. That’s how music gets around”

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VBVg0 TIL there's a city in Alaska called "Unalaska". It comes from the Unangan term "Ounalashka" which means "near the peninsula".
rRx01 TIL during the Gulf War, the U.S. dropped a 6,800 kg BLU-82 bomb to conduct psychological warfare against Iraqi troops. A British SAS unit that witnessed the explosion assumed the U.S. had used a nuclear weapon and radioed back to their headquarters, "Sir, the blokes have just nuked Kuwait!".
j6gXv TIL in 2010, the Air Force Research Laboratory built the Condor Cluster, a supercomputer composed of 1,716 Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles. At the time, it was "about the 35th- or 36th-fastest computer in the world".
40ob TIL a minor character in the Marvel Universe has fought and beaten such household names as Deadpool, Dr. Doom, Thanos, and Galactus. Her main superpower is the army of squirrels she commands.
jGmN TIL that a man having a seizure on subway tracks was rescued by a stranger. The rescuer jumped down onto the man and compressed him down by laying on him as five cars passed over him.