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TIL of Misophonia, a disorder which means sufferers have a hatred of sounds such as eating, chewing, loud breathing or even repeated pen-clicking.

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4XZjJ TIL the original Routemaster double-decker buses in London could carry over 60 people with a single 115 hp engine
grWP8 TIL the albatross almost never flaps its wings while flying across the ocean. It uses "dynamic soaring" and "slope soaring" to carve through the air, gaining velocity from wind gradients. It can cover almost 1,000km (620 miles) every day, all without a single wing-flap
ebjk TIL that in 1940 the first British paratroops were trained by stunt men because parachuting was rare and considered a “circus stunt”
4kmgb TIL in 1970 Robert White successfully transplanted the head of a rhesus monkey onto another decapitated monkey. It survived for eight days, able to smell, hear, see, and move its mouth. But it was paralyzed from the neck down, as White was unable to reconnect the severed spinal cord.
1aWJr Summit, a supercomputer built in the United States for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is taking the lead from China for the title of world’s speediest computer.